A federal judge on Friday ruled that the Trump administration failed to consider potential damage to the environment from its decision to resume coal sales from U.S. lands, but the court stopped short of halting future sales.
Read moreUtah Physicians for a Healthy Environment sued the Department of the Interior for approving a lease to mine coal near Bryce Canyon National Park.
Read moreNorth Carolina officials on Monday ordered Charlotte-based Duke Energy to excavate and relocate coal ash from storage ponds at six power plants.
Read moreFormer coal miner John Robinson’s bills for black lung treatments run $4,000 a month, but the federal fund he depends on to help cover them is being drained of money because of inaction by Congress and the Trump administration. Amid the turmoil of the government shutdown this winter, a tax on coal that helps pay for the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund was cut sharply Jan. 1 and never restored, potentially saving coal companies hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
Read moreAustralian researchers have developed a new technique to convert carbon dioxide gas into solid coal, offering a new method for safely removing greenhouse gases from the earth’s atmosphere using a liquid metal.
Read moreA federal utility board voted Thursday to close a coal-fired power plant in Kentucky, despite objections from President Donald Trump and U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, in a move the board says will save its more than 10 million customers $320 million.
Read moreCoinciding with the recent Green New Deal push by rising Democratic star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, House lawmakers dug in Tuesday on a strategy to transition U.S. energy away from fossil fuels.
Read morePresident Donald Trump has pledged to revitalize the nation’s coal industry but employment in that sector is at a record low, according to federal data, and many major coal-burning power plants across Appalachia are using other fuels or closing down entirely.
Read moreThe Senate Environment and Public Works Committee voted 11-10 along party lines Tuesday to approve former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler to head the Environmental Protection Agency.
Read moreThe dying grass told Jason Peeler something was amiss with sections of his family’s ranch an hour south of San Antonio. He got answers last March, when federal rules forced the operator of a coal-fired power plant in the middle of the family’s land to release its pollution data.
Read moreEnvironmental advocacy groups filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the Interior Department, claiming that officials approved the expansion of a Montana coal mine without properly assessing the possible economic environmental clean-up costs of it.
Read moreGermany is closing its last black coal mines, ending an industry that laid the foundations for the country’s industrial revolution and its post-war economic recovery.
Read moreA developer fighting to export coal from a planned marine shipping terminal in Oakland sued the city in state court Tuesday, accusing local officials of obstructing the project.
Read moreA federal report says Americans are using less coal this year than at any time since Jimmy Carter’s presidency. That’s despite the Trump administration’s efforts to revive the country’s coal industry.
Read moreA $444 million plan to build a new federal prison in a sensitive region of Appalachia ravaged by coal-mining operations drew a lawsuit Monday from 21 inmates.
Read moreElectronics salesman Leszek Jaworowski says he can’t discuss Poland’s coal mining with his father. They end up at loggerheads, just like many families in the southern mining region of Silesia.
Read moreEnvironmental groups claimed Tuesday that 10 utility companies are responsible for the majority of premature deaths caused by emissions from coal-fired power plants in Europe.
Read moreVirginia’s largest power provider has moved closer to meeting a federal deadline to close pools of power-plant waste sitting in coal ash ponds across the state, but environmentalists say one proposed method of dealing with the problem risks the safety of nearby residents.
Read moreThe Trump administration’s top environmental official for the Southeast has been arrested on Alabama state ethics charges related to a scheme to help a coal company avoid paying for a costly toxic waste cleanup.
Read moreAs coal is phased out to make room for cleaner energy sources, a new study concludes new technology could create thousands of new jobs in transportation and forestry nationwide.
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