The facility, in Colstrip, Mont., used a new E.P.A. system for requesting special waivers from President Trump.

On a scorching August day in southwestern Indiana, the giant Gibson generating station is running flat out. Its five 180-foot-high (54.9-meter-high) boilers are gulping 25 tons (22.7 metric tons ...

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