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Wyoming's first new coal mine in 50 years is said to be operating soon but it won't rely on the fossil fuel to make money.

Dowell, a tight-knit former coal town in Southern Illinois, is turning the page. Once fueled by the Kathleen Coal Mine, the village is now beginning to run on sunlight. As The Southern Illinoisan ...

The developers of a long-delayed copper-nickel mining project in northeastern Minnesota have announced plans for a series of studies over the next year on potential ways to improve environmental ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — PolyMet Mining and Teck Resources finalized a joint venture Wednesday to complete the copper-nickel mine that PolyMet has been developing in northeastern Minnesota, and the ...

Utility Xcel Energy has started delivering clean energy from one of the US's largest solar farms: Sherco Solar in Minnesota.

Sherco has been Minnesota’s largest coal-fired power plant — and its biggest polluter — since it was built over the course of the 1970s and 80s.

Firms planning two large copper-nickel mines for northeastern Minnesota — including the PolyMet project — will be combined into one company. PolyMet, the Minnesota hard rock mine closest to ...

Opening the area near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeast Minnesota to copper mining wouldn’t be a game changer (“Biden’s Green-Energy Mineral Lockup,” Review & Outlook ...

Three months before millions of gallons of wastewater spilled from one of Minnesota’s largest coal power plants this summer, state regulators warned the utility to take action to prevent a ...

The sale of North Dakota’s largest coal-fired power plant cleared a final procedural hurdle on Thursday when Minnesota utility regulators approved a permit transfer for the facility’s attached ...