Apr. 20—The 40-year-old coal-fired power plant in Colstrip lives to see another day. Last week President Trump issued an executive order that exempts Colstrip and 70 other U.S. plants from a ...

Old coal ash piles at dozens of shuttered plants weren’t included. They are even more likely to be unlined and unsafe, according to the EPA. A federal appeals court in 2018 said old disposal ...