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The Ohio River has 26 coal-fired power plants along its banks, about one every 38 miles. For decades, a regional commission has overseen standards for water pollution that crosses state lines. Credit: Saul Loeb/Getty Images

Ohio River May Lose Its Regional Water Quality Standards, Vote Suggests

By James Bruggers

Demonstrators criticize Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over his support from the oil industry using signs that read Crudeau Oil on a fake pipeline. Credit: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images

Oil Pipelines or Climate Action? Trudeau Walks a Political Tightrope

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Pipeline proposals have drawn large public protests, as well as formal comments opposing them.  Credit: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

Public Comments on Pipeline Plans May Be Slipping Through Cracks at FERC, Audit Says

By Phil McKenna

Air Pollution From Coal Plants Tied to Premature Births

Premature Birth Rates Drop Across California After Coal and Oil Plants Shut Down

By Sabrina Shankman

Embattled Atlantic Coast Pipeline Faces Environmental Justice Complaint

Atlantic Coast Pipeline Faces Civil Rights Complaint After Key Permit Is Blocked

By Phil McKenna

A solar farm is planned for Bent Mountain, a former coal mine in Kentucky's Pike County. Credit: Kenny Stanely/RH Group

Solar Plans for a Mined Kentucky Mountaintop Could Hinge on...More Coal Mining

By James Bruggers

Cleanup of the Enbridge pipeline Kalamazoo River oil spill in 2010. Credit: State of Michigan

Enbridge Fined for Failing to Fully Inspect Pipelines After Kalamazoo Oil Spill

By David Hasemyer

Pacifica California, in San Mateo County, by air. Credit: Philar/CC-BY-SA-2.0

In Cities v. Exxon, Is Sauce for the Goose Also Sauce for the Gander?

By David Hasemyer

Tar sands production at Fort McMurray in Alberta. Credit: Mark Ralston/Getty Images

Canada Sets Methane Reduction Targets, but Alberta Has Its Own Plans

By Sabrina Shankman

In 2008, a coal ash containment area broke at the TVA's Kingston Fossil Plant, and 5.4 million cubic yards of coal ash washed downstream toward the Emory River. Credit: Brian Stansberry/CC-BY-3.0

Don't Gut Coal Ash Rules, Communities Beg EPA at Hearing

By Georgina Gustin

Members of the Leech Lake Band of the Ojibwe Tribe harvest wild rice on their reservation, which the new Line 3 pipeline would pass through. Credit: George Stringham/U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Pipeline Ruling Could Strengthen Tribes' Legal Case Against Enbridge Line 3

By Phil McKenna

Protesters marched near the Kinder Morgan pipeline terminal in Burnaby, British Columbia, on March 18, 2018. Credit: Jason Redmond/AFP/Getty Images

Canada’s Struggling to Build Oil Pipelines, and That’s Starting to Hurt the Industry

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Utility Giant FirstEnergy Calls for Emergency Subsidy, Says It Can’t Compete

By John H. Cushman Jr.

The U.S.S. Connecticut breaks through the ice on the Beaufort Sea during a submarine exercise in March 2018. Credit: Mass Communication 2nd Class Micheal H. Lee/U.S. Navy

Arctic Drilling Lease Sale Proposed for 2019 in Beaufort Sea, Once Off-Limits

By Sabrina Shankman

A massive iceberg floated off the coast of Port Kirwan, Newfoundland, on April 26, 2017. The North Atlantic has seen four years of extreme iceberg seasons, and appears to be facing another. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

'Extreme' Iceberg Seasons Threaten Oil Rigs and Shipping as the Arctic Warms

By Bob Berwyn

A coal train winds through Wyoming. Kimon Berlin/CC-BY-SA-2.0

Judge: Trump Must Consider Climate Change in Major Drilling, Mining Lease Plan

By Neela Banerjee

A coal truck leaves a power plant in Utah. Fossil fuel combustion in power plants and truck engines is a major producer of fine particulate matter linked to lung damage and other health problems. Credit: George Frey/Getty Images

How Pruitt’s New ‘Secret Science’ Policy Could Undermine Air Pollution Rules

By Marianne Lavelle

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt meets with coal miners in Pennsylvania. Credit: Justin Merriman/Getty Images

How Pruitt's EPA Is Delaying, Weakening and Repealing Clean Air Rules

By Marianne Lavelle

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