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Amoke rises from the stacks of the main plant facility at the Navajo Generating Station, as seen from Lake Powell in Page, Ariz. The coal-fired power plant in far northern Arizona that was built to deliver water to the state's desert region is set to retire in 2019 unless a new owner can be found. (AP File Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Energy and Environment

Trump administration scrambles to save largest coal plant in the West

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Energy Secretary Rick Perry has issued a fairly comprehensive report on the state of America's power sector. What he concluded is that the nation must necessarily continue to draw electricity from a diverse mix of sources. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg)
Op-Eds

Why coal and nuclear aren’t going anywhere

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Energy Secretary Rick Perry's plan to boost coal and nuclear power plants is legally dead on arrival, according to Harvard University. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Energy and Environment

Harvard: Rick Perry’s grid plan is legally dead on arrival

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FILE - In this March 6, 2017, file photo, a mortgage rate graph is displayed on a computer in North Andover, Mass. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
Beltway Confidential

Experts are usually right, but it’s okay to be skeptical on big policy questions

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Perry will be looking to use the Africa Oil Week conference to advance prospects for energy development between the U.S. and the continent. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Energy and Environment

Rick Perry jets off to Capetown next week to boost energy ties with Africa

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The proposal calls for draconian, emergency subsidies to address a crisis that grid reliability experts say doesn't exist. The alarmist proposal is neither technically nor procedurally sound. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)
Beltway Confidential

Why is Rick Perry’s Energy Department proposing an anti-conservative reform?

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Manchin, who represents one of the top coal producing states, is the first Democrat to explicitly support Perry's plan. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Energy and Environment

Joe Manchin backs Rick Perry’s plan to subsidize coal, nuclear plants

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Energy Secretary Rick Perry Perry is attempting to solve a problem that he framed as grid resiliency. He believes that power plants -- primarily coal and nuclear -- need to be compensated for being able to withstand an infrequent, but devastating, event such as a hurricane or some other potentially catastrophic scenario such as a cyber or physical attack on the electric grid. (Kevin Dietsch/Pool via Bloomberg)
Energy and Environment

Rick Perry’s proposal would upend years of power reform

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That gap in electricity generation is projected to be filled by wind farms in the Texas energy grid known as ERCOT, according to an analysis. (AP Photo/LM Otero, file)
Energy and Environment

Wind power to overtake coal power in Texas

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Energy Secretary Rick Perry listens to a statement by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore., on video monitor, during a hearing about the electrical grid, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Energy and Environment

Rick Perry tells lawmakers proposal to boost coal, nuclear power not the ‘be-all-end-all’

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