ND Industrial Commission approves $4.8 million for lignite projects Stay informed about Western North Dakota news, weather, and sports! Follow KX News on our website and other social channels: ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Great River Energy are testing a new coal-drying technology that could dramatically reduce the emissions of lignite-burning power plants. The project was ...

The use of low-rank coals (lignite and subbituminous) has seen a significant increase in recent years. Because of the low sulfur content of such coals, many units have adopted fuel switching to meet ...

The Oxbow Mine. Sounds like something out of an old western, but it’s really the next step in maintaining an uninterrupted stream of electricity for your homes and businesses. A dynamic DeSoto Parish ...

HALLSVILLE, Texas (KSLA) — Some East Texans may have been hearing loud explosions in the Marshall-Hallsville area. “Yes, I can feel it in the house,” resident Jessie Brown said. “I remember the first ...

A wind farm is being dismantled in western Germany to make way for an expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in a “paradoxical” situation highlighting the current prioritization of energy security ...

Mayor Panagiotis Plakentas fears what will happen to the town of Ptolemaida and the surrounding region when the last of the ...

The Iron Law of Electricity strikes again. A wind project next to the Garzweiler open-pit mine near Bergheim, Germany (pictured here) is being razed to make room for more lignite production. Last week ...

Germany's economics minister and energy companies have agreed on steps towards taking lignite-fired power plants offline. The plan is to help Germany reach its climate targets, but environmentalists ...

BOTETOURT/CRAIG COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - Crews are still working to fully contain the Lignite and Bald Mountain wildfires that charred portions of Botetourt and Craig counties, according to the United ...

Germany is slowly shuttering its prolific lignite mines, which produce the least efficient type of coal. The ghostly towns in the mines' shadows may hold a lesson for how to move on. I'm standing in ...

Two wildfires continue to burn in the Jefferson National Forest near Oriskany, with the Bald Mountain fire covering approximately 2,000 acres along the Botetourt-Craig County line, according to ...