Coal

Drowning Deaths Last Summer From Flooding in Eastern Kentucky’s Coal Country Linked to Poor Strip-Mine Reclamation

A social justice group asks the Interior Department to review the adequacy of federal law as climate change supercharges storms and turns coal hollows into dangerous chutes of water.

By James Bruggers

Coal Ash Along the Shores of the Great Lakes Threatens Water Quality as Residents Rally for Change

By Grace van Deelen

New Wind and Solar Are Cheaper Than the Costs to Operate All But One Coal-Fired Power Plant in the United States

By Dan Gearino

Carbon Removal Is Coming to Fossil Fuel Country. Can It Bring Jobs and Climate Action?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Soaring West Virginia Electricity Prices Trigger Standoff Over the State’s Devotion to Coal Power

By Marianne Lavelle

Over 130 Power Plants That Have Spawned Leaking Toxic Coal Ash Ponds and Landfills Don’t Think Cleanup Is Necessary

By James Bruggers

Remember That Coal Surge Last Year? Yeah, It’s Over

By Dan Gearino

Earthjustice Is Suing EPA Over Coal Ash Dumps, Which Leak Toxins Into Groundwater

By James Bruggers

Can Appalachia Be Saved? Or Will ‘Worse and Worse’ Flooding Wash it Away?

By Chris Kenning, Connor Giffin and James Bruggers

China Ramps Up Coal Power to Boost Post-Lockdown Growth

By Eleanor Olcott, The Financial Times

Biden’s Been in Office for More Than 500 Days. He Still Hasn’t Appointed a Top Official to Oversee Coal Mine Reclamation

By James Bruggers

In a Bid to Save Its Coal Industry, Wyoming Has Become a Test Case for Carbon Capture, but Utilities are Balking at the Pricetag

By Nicholas Kusnetz

The Decline of Kentucky’s Coal Industry Has Produced Hundreds of Safety and Environmental Violations at Strip Mines

By James Bruggers

‘Last Gasp for Coal’ Saw Illinois Plants Crank up Emission-Spewing Production Last Year

By Brett Chase, Dan Gearino

Coal Mining Emits More Super-Polluting Methane Than Venting and Flaring From Gas and Oil Wells, a New Study Finds

By Phil McKenna

Inside Clean Energy: Three Charts to Help Make Sense of 2021, a Year Coal Was Up and Solar Was Way Up

By Dan Gearino

Sale of North Dakota’s Largest Coal Plant Is Almost Complete. Then Will Come the Hard Part

By Dan Gearino

The Biden Administration Takes Action on Toxic Coal Ash Waste, Targeting Leniency by the Trump EPA

By James Bruggers

Coal Powered the Industrial Revolution. It Left Behind an ‘Absolutely Massive’ Environmental Catastrophe

By James Bruggers