ESSEXVILLE, Mich. (WJRT) - Several fire crews in the Great Lakes Bay Region battled a major blaze at Consumers Energy's Karn ...

We bring you part 3 of our exclusive series, "Burning Coal Country." The first two parts were about an active mine fire burning underground in Schuylkill County and the response from the ...

Throughout the fall and winter months, an underground fire sent billowing smoke out of a fissure in the mountainside above Kenilworth, Utah. The fire, burning in a coal seam in the historic Kenilworth ...

Chinook Fish & Wildlife Area in Clay County remains under a partial closure as the result of underground burning coal refuse discovered in early October, according to the Indiana Department of Natural ...

The burning of anthracite coal requires appliances ... and may be economically burned in this manner. If a coal fire gets very low, the quickest way to extinguish it, is to rake it at the bottom.

Once the dominant source of energy in the United States, today, 401 coal units supply roughly 16 percent of the nation’s grid ...

The Karn Generating Station in Essexville is primarily used to provide backup power to the grid at peak times, a Consumers Energy spokeswoman said.

There are 206 coal-burning power plants left in the United States, which supply about 16 percent of the country’s energy. Experts say burning more doesn’t make financial sense. By Austyn ...