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Delayed U.S. coal plant closures are bumps in the road, not U-turns for energy transition
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IEEFA U.S.: Federal appeals court tosses out FERC approval for Spire STL Pipeline
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IEEFA U.S.: ‘New Promise Act’ would help communities transition from coal-based economy
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IEEFA U.S.: Throwing good money after bad, Washington gives $116 million handout to coal carbon-capture backers
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IEEFA update: Doubling down on utility-scale renewables
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IEEFA U.S.: Why exports won’t save American coal
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IEEFA U.S.: Wind farms are forever
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IEEFA update: Data shows U.S. shift away from coal-fired generation is intensifying
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IEEFA US: Financial chaos in Powder River Basin coal country
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IEEFA Update: Electricity Auctions Across Major Swaths of U.S. Spell Further Distress for Fading Coal Plants
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IEEFA Research Brief: Coal in Decline, Blow by Blow
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Wind in the Wires, and More on the Way
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Uncomfortable Questions in the Wake of Peabody’s Sale of Its Remaining Stake in a Costly Midwestern Coal-Fired Plant
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Data Bite: U.S. Coal Production Is Down Almost Everywhere, and Off by Double Digits in Key States
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Peabody Comes Clean. But Not Very.
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Slovenians, in Their Rebuke of a Misbegotten Power Plant, Put U.S. Elected Officials to Shame
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IEEFA Update: How a ‘Clean Coal’ Myth Squandered Hundreds of Millions of Taxpayer Dollars Before It Was Unmasked
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The Truth About Prairie State Energy Campus (Part 4): There Are Ways Out of This Bad Deal
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