A large section of the Fifth Estate, that world company of scientists, climbed the Allegheny Mountains to Pittsburgh last week. They knew soft coal, what it was and what could profitably be done with ...

Coal continues to destroy our community’s health, land, air and water. For decades, the Diné and other tribal communities have suffered in the quest for corporate profits. Current efforts by the Trump ...

For thousands of years, coal has been an important source of heat and energy. The fossil fuel played a crucial role in the Industrial Revolution, and today it’s the largest source of energy for ...

A review of plans for big U.S. power generators shows how much a new greenhouse regulation could alter the electric industry. The writing was already on the wall for the U.S. coal industry when the ...

America isn’t making electricity the way it did two decades ago. Natural gas surpassed coal as the country’s top source of power in 2016, and renewables like wind and solar have grown quickly to ...

A still from the film 'King Coal' shows a funeral procession. The part-documentary, part-fable reflects on the legacy of coal in Central Appalachia, while looking to the future. A new film is ...

Nicholas County is well-known in West Virginia for a few things. It's known for Summersville Lake, the state's largest body of water. And if you're going to the lake to fish or boat, locals know to ...

A West Virginia Republican whose family owns a sprawling coal business helped lead the quiet, last-minute effort to add a lucrative tax credit to the GOP megabill that could net the fossil fuel ...

As the Tennessee Valley Authority forges ahead with a strategy to close all its coal plants and replace them mostly with natural gas, another emissions-heavy fossil fuel, strict new rules from the ...