The nation’s coal companies, citing the economic impact of the covid-19 pandemic, want to roll back their payments to the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund. That would leave the federal government to pick up the tab for 25,000 ailing miners.
A federal lawsuit blaming Orlando's electric utility and home builders for coal-related contamination of east Orange County neighborhoods is a major step closer to trial with a judge's order.
The playwrights of "Coal Country" based the work on those who lived through a West Virginia mining disaster. They hope their New York audiences listen well.
Investors with nearly $200 billion in assets say they plan to back a shareholder motion urging the bank to cut its lending for coal and other fossil fuels.
Three of the five remaining coal-fired power plants in the Netherlands will see either their production scale back dramatically or their facilities close altogether in order to curb greenhouse gas emissions in the country.
One argument against electric vehicles made by those that wish to cling to the certainties of the internal combustion engine is that we need to decarbonise the power system first otherwise cars are no cleaner than if they use gasoline.
While the consequences of government inaction play out for the coronavirus pandemic, they play out more quietly, but just as dangerously, in chemical regulation.
Two communities — one in Canada, one in the U.S. — share both a border along the St. Marys River and a toxic legacy that has contributed to high rates of cancer. Now the towns are banding together to fight a ferrochrome plant.
