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A coal mine operates on leased public land in Colorado. Credit: BLM Colorado

Citing ‘AI Arms Race,’ Trump Administration Announces Efforts to Rekindle US Coal Industry

By Jake Bolster

A surface coal mine in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. Credit: BLM Wyoming

Bureau of Land Management to Sell Off Federal Coal Reserve Leases in Wyoming

By Arcelia Martin, Jake Bolster

A bank of coal is seen in front of the Naughton coal-fired power plant in Kemmerer, Wyo. Credit: Natalie Behring/Getty Images

House Republicans Push New Coal Bills, but Critics Say the Industry’s Decline Can’t Be Reversed

By Carl David Goette-Luciak

Sandy Bahr (center), the Sierra Club’s Grand Canyon chapter director, speaks during a protest on Thursday over Arizona Power Service’s recent decision to walk back its clean energy goals. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

Arizonans Protest State’s Largest Utility Abandoning Clean Energy Commitments

By Wyatt Myskow

The coal-fired John E. Amos Power Plant in West Virginia. Credit: Joseph Sohm/Visions of America via Getty Images

Coal Is Rising Along with Solar in the U.S. Power System, While Gas Loses a Step

By Dan Gearino

The headquarters for BlackRock in New York City. Credit: Gary Hershorn/Getty Images

Texas Suit Alleging Anti-Coal ‘Cartel’ of Top Wall Street Firms Could Reshape ESG—and Wall Street Itself

By Deep Vakil

The Des Moines River flows through downtown Ottumwa, Iowa. Credit: Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images

The Battle Over Polluted Water Beneath an Iowa Coal Ash Landfill

By Anika Jane Beamer

First responders rescue people from flooding in their homes on Aug. 10 after 13 inches of rain fell overnight in Wauwatosa, Wis. Credit: Andy Manis/Getty Images

15 Children in Wisconsin File the Latest Youth Lawsuit Citing Climate Dangers

By Dana Drugmand

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro attends the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Nov. 19, 2024. Credit: Mauro Pimentel/AFP via Getty Images

Colombia’s President Called Out an Alabama Company’s Coal Exports to Israel. Now Alabamians Are Protesting

By Lee Hedgepeth

Bedrock Energy CTO Silviu Livescu (right) and Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) talk in front of a drill rig on Wednesday at the Northwest Colorado Business District in Hayden, Colo. Credit: Emily Goldfield

A Geothermal Network in Colorado Could Help A Rural Town Diversify Its Economy

By Phil McKenna, Jake Bolster

Ambulances respond to an explosion at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works on Monday in Clairton, Pa. Credit: Rebecca Droke/AFP via Getty Images

‘It Didn’t Have to Be This Way’: After Another Explosion at Clairton Coke Works, Advocates Call for Accountability

By Kiley Bense

The J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant in West Olive, Mich., was ordered to stay open by the Department of Energy earlier this year. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Delaying Even More Coal, Gas Plant Closures Could Cost Ratepayers Billions

By Carrie Klein

An aerial view of the former Woodhouse Colliery site and the location of West Cumbria Mining’s proposed coal project in Whitehaven, England. Credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Coal Company Sues UK After Environmentalists Win Major Climate Case in British Court

By Katie Surma

A view of the Shenango coke plant in Pittsburgh in December 2012. Credit: Allegheny County Clean Air Now

Kids in Pennsylvania Are Breathing (Much) Easier After a Coal Plant Shuttered

By Kiley Bense

The covered coal ash pond at Alabama Power’s Plant Gadsden sits adjacent to the Coosa River in Gadsden, Ala. Credit: Courtesy of Coosa Riverkeeper

Capped Alabama Coal Ash Pond Still Polluting Groundwater 7 Years After Closure, Lawsuit Claims

By Dennis Pillion

Strong winds carry coal dust from a coal pile at the Comanche Generating Station on Feb. 4 in Pueblo, Colo. Credit: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

EPA Tries to Stop Closure of Colorado Coal Plants After Meeting With Colorado Springs Utilities

By Jake Bolster

The Mount Storm coal-fired power station owned by Dominion Energy is seen in West Virginia on June 30. Credit: Ulysse Bellier/AFP via Getty Images

US Department of Energy Grid Reliability Report Is Unreliable, Virginia Renewable Advocates Say

By Charles Paullin

An aerial view of a surface coal mine in the Powder River Basin. Credit: Bureau of Land Management Wyoming

Trump Move to Increase Coal Mining in the Powder River Basin Will Worsen Climate Change, Experts Warn

By Jake Bolster

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