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President Donald Trump’s orders require three coal units to remain available through Dec. 18, nearly a year beyond their planned retirement.

Two Indiana coal-burning power plants remain open under an order from the Trump administration. But a federal appeals court ruling could change that in the future.

Separately, state regulators denied the utility’s $741M transmission improvement plan.

A bill to let utilities bypass some local laws to build new power plants on the site of old ones barely made it to the governor's desk. Debates over local control are likely what led the bill to pass through the House on Thursday by only one vote.

Last year the Sierra Club gave Duke an F on its climate commitments, far lower than any other investor-owned utility in the state.

U.S. industry is a major source of the greenhouse gas pollution causing climate change. Some operations emit way more than others, and new reports show where they are.

If the company follows through, Duke would be the last Indiana investor-owned utility to stop burning coal by a decade.

Activists in southern Indiana are calling victory this week after the state threw a major hurdle at a proposed coal-to-diesel plant there.

CenterPoint expects converting its Culley 3 coal unit and moving to mostly renewable energy will reduce the company's carbon emissions by about 95 percent and save customers almost $80 million in the next 20 years.

It's part of the utility's long-term plan to power AES customers with 13 percent natural gas and at least 78 percent wind, solar, and battery storage by 2042.