Coal
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