Neil Simpson II

Column: Here are the 32 coal plants still powering the American West

Over the last two decades, 21 coal-fired power plants have shut down across the Western U.S.. Twenty-one down, 32 to go.

Despite staggering costs and logistic challenges, carbon capture studies at Wyoming coal plants advance

Rocky Mountain Power and Black Hills Energy already tap Wyoming ratepayers to pay for state-mandated studies, and will look to government subsidies to defray...

Wyoming’s coal mandate continues to cost electric customers

Black Hills Energy is the second utility in the state to impose a “carbon capture compliance” surcharge in an effort to keep coal plants...

Appeals court upholds regional haze plans for Wyoming coal plants

PacifiCorp's Wyodak coal-fired power plant near Gillette and its Naughton coal-fired power plant near Kemmerer are in compliance with federal requirements to...