In 2027, the U.S. railroad industry will mark 200 years, a milestone few other industries can claim. In 2026, Railway Age ...

The Powerton Generating Station in Pekin will now close in 2029, a year later than originally planned. This extension is due to a Trump administration directive that repealed an Obama-era ...

Kentucky power plants burn heaps of coal ― more than 20 million tons each year, enough to fill a freight train stretching from Louisville to Los Angeles. But it has been a decade since the majority of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Nexamp In central Illinois, a former coal mine has been repurposed to produce solar electricity, showing how retired ...

A person was fatally hit by a Metra train in Palatine, Illinois, early Friday morning. Around 5:10 a.m., Metra said Union Pacific Northwest train No. 602 hit a pedestrian at Baldwin Road and Northwest ...

An old coal mine in Illinois is now generating community solar power for hundreds of households and businesses. Nexamp and TurningPoint Energy have completed two community solar projects on a ...

East Bay lawmakers are proposing new legislation this week in an effort to halt the Trump administration’s push to open a long-opposed export terminal in West Oakland. U.S. Rep. Lateefah Simon of ...

When investor Phil Tagami first proposed building an export terminal in Oakland, California, more than a decade ago, he probably didn’t anticipate the firestorm of litigation and controversy that ...

6:45 p.m. June 8, 2026: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified Margaret Gordon as co-executive director of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project. She is co-founder.

On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced a $75 million coal export terminal in Oakland, a controversial project with pushback from some local representatives. The Oakland terminal is just one of ...

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