Political appointees in President Donald Trump’s Interior Department have weakened protections for Appalachia’s endangered crayfish to benefit the coal mining industry, environmentalists claim in a federal lawsuit.
Read moreSiding with the Western Organization of Resource Councils, a federal judge enjoined the secretary of the interior from relying on recommendations of his Royalty Policy Committee, as it “operates in secret and works to advance the goals of only one interest: the extractive industries that profit from the development of public gas, oil, and coal.”
Read moreA group of 22 states and seven local governments filed suit Tuesday over the Trump administration’s plan to roll back Obama-era emissions standards on coal power plants.
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The Senate voted 56-34 Wednesday to confirm President Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, approving a longtime Republican donor with family ties to the coal industry.
Read moreJust four months after a report detailed the widespread impact coal ash has on groundwater throughout the U.S., the Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposal Tuesday that would exempt the construction industry from regulations for the storage and use of the toxic substance.
Read moreBlackhawk Mining and more than 20 affiliates filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, declaring $1 billion to $10 billion in assets and liabilities; it said the filing will not affect operations.
Read moreThe United States and North Carolina brought a federal complaint against Duke Energy Carolinas for a 2014 spill that polluted the Dan River with 27 million gallons of coal ash wastewater and more than 30,000 tons of coal ash.
Read moreWildearth Guardians brought a federal complaint over a 1,720-acre expansion of the nearly 20,000-acre West Elk Coal Mine on the Western Slope — 13,000 acres of it in national forest — into the previously undisturbed Sunset Roadless Area.
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The CEO of one of the nation’s largest coal producers says he’s confident the company will bounce back despite the shutdown of several mines after it filed for federal bankruptcy protection.
Read moreThe email went out from senior Environmental Protection Agency officials to Kelly Craft, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, responding to questions she had about a funding matter.
Read moreSenate Democrats made clear their contempt Wednesday for the lack of diplomatic experience evinced by the woman slated to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
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Attorneys general from states with thriving clean energy sectors said Wednesday they will fight the Trump administration’s replacement for an Obama-era climate plan, calling it an illegal scheme meant to resuscitate the coal industry.
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Extending the life of coal-fired power plants, the Trump administration pulled the plug Wednesday on a landmark effort from the Obama era to move away from climate-damaging pollution.
Read moreFormer New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is plunging $500 million into an effort to close all of the nation’s remaining coal plants by 2030 and put the United States on track toward a 100% clean energy economy.
Read moreIt’s the rave in Europe: Instead of burning coal and fossil fuels to generate heat and electricity, wood chips and pellets are being fed into Europe’s boilers. In what critics consider a dangerous sleight-of-hand and act of political greenwashing, an updated set of European Union rules encourage the burning of wood in power plants and claim it’s “carbon neutral” — meaning it won’t add to the planet’s warming — under the assumption that trees grow back.
Read moreThe 500 residents of Bokoshe, Oklahoma have bitter warnings for similarly situated communities now that President Trump’s EPA has approved Oklahoma to be the first state to take over permitting and enforcement of toxic coal-ash sites.
Read moreCloud Energy, the nation’s third-largest coal company, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, listing $928.7 million in assets and $635 million in liabilities.
Read moreWashington state Gov. Jay Inslee, a presidential hopeful running on an almost exclusively climate-focused platform, signed a suite of clean energy bills into law Tuesday.
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