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A view of Warrior Met’s Coal Mine No. 5 in Brookwood, Ala. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

In Trump’s Megabill, a Clean Energy Phase Out and a Big, Beautiful Tax Break for Met Coal Exporters

By Lee Hedgepeth, Marianne Lavelle

Red Feather staff (from left) Duane Tsinigine, Tavanne Sousa and Tyler Puente stand next to a heat pump installed with the nonprofit’s help at a home on the Hopi Reservation. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

EPA Grants Were Set to Address Health Risks on the Hopi and Navajo Reservations, Until the Trump Administration Cut Them

By Wyatt Myskow

Animals—Living and Dead—Can Help Track Humanity’s Toxic Legacy

By Kiley Price

A view of the J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant in West Olive, Mich. Credit: Consumers Energy

Trump Hastens ‘Drumbeat’ of Deferred Coal Plant Retirements

By Marianne Lavelle, Carrie Klein

President Donald Trump tours U.S. Steel’s Irvin Works in West Mifflin, Pa., on Friday. Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

U.S. Steel Is a Major Source of Pollution in Pennsylvania. Will Its Sale Lock in Emissions for Another Generation?

By Kiley Bense

A worker checks solar panels at the Benban Solar Energy Park in Aswan, Egypt, on April 21, 2024. A consortium of Chinese investors helped finance the solar park in 2021 as part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Credit: Ahmed Gomaa/Xinhua via Getty Images

For the First Time, China Invests More in Wind and Solar Than Coal Overseas

By Katie Surma, Georgina Gustin, Nicholas Kusnetz

A covered coal ash pond sits adjacent to the Coosa River in Gadsden, Ala. Credit: Courtesy of Coosa Riverkeeper

Alabama Power Threatened With Lawsuit for Contaminating Groundwater With Coal Ash

By Dennis Pillion, Lee Hedgepeth

A deer roams in front of a wind farm on a private ranch near Kevin, Mont. Credit: William Campbell-Corbis via Getty Images

Property Rights Take Center Stage as Montana Grapples With Wind Development

By Karin Kirk

PacifiCorp’s Hunter power pant releases steam as it burns coal outside of Castle Dale, Utah. Credit: George Frey/AFP via Getty Images

New PacifiCorp Forecast Sees More Fossil-Fueled Electricity. How Will That Affect Western Energy Jobs?

By Jake Bolster

Warrior Met’s Blue Creek mine expansion is set to be one of the largest coal infrastructure buildouts in Alabama history. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Trump Aims to Fast Track Alabama Coal Build-Out, Citing US Need. Nearly All the Coal Is Bound for Export

By Lee Hedgepeth

Tata Ash Chemicals, a trona production plant in southwest Wyoming, is betting on a bold energy shift: replacing its coal-fired power with a next-generation microreactor. Credit: Najifa Farhat/Inside Climate News

Wyoming Has Been Slow to Transition From Fossil Fuels, but Is Moving Fast Toward New Nuclear Technologies

By Najifa Farhat

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

How Will Trump’s Effort to Revitalize Coal Play Out in the Nation’s Most Productive Coal Fields?

By Jake Bolster

Smoke emits from the James H. Miller Jr. Electrical Generating Plant in Jefferson County, Ala. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

More Than 60 Power Plants Exempted From Federal Mercury Limits

By Dan Gearino

An aerial view of Warrior Met's Blue Creek Mine No. 1 construction site. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Trump Official Visits, Touts Alabama Coal Mine With Thousands of Federal Safety Violations

By Lee Hedgepeth

Hunter Mullens is pictured inside a vehicle

As Trump Promotes ‘Clean Beautiful Coal,’ a  Lit Cigarette Above a West Virginia Coal Mine Leaves a Woman Fighting for Her Life

By James Bruggers

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks alongside coal and energy workers during an executive order signing ceremony in the East Room of the White House on April 08, 2025 in Washington, DC. The Trump administration has elected to roll back Biden-era environmental policies with the intention to help revive coal-fired plants in order to restore America’s energy independence. Credit: Anna Moneymaker via Getty Images

New Trump Orders Aim to Keep Coal Power Alive, Despite Climate and Economic Costs

By Marianne Lavelle

Transmission lines connect power generated by water turbines at the Grand Coulee Dam to the grid in Washington state. Credit: Don and Melinda Crawford/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

How Does Your State Produce Its Electricity? The Variations are Wild and Weird

By Dan Gearino

Naperville residents urged their City Council at a recent meeting to seek new providers of power after learning that 80 percent of the electricity for the city is sourced from coal plants. Credit: Courtesy of Hunter Byington

With Fossil Fuels’ Comeback, Can Climate Goals Get Back on Track in Illinois?

By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times

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