Browsing: Coal
‘You have an entire culture, an entire community that is also having that same crisis’: Colorado coal town looks anxiously to the future
The Cooper family knows how to work heavy machinery. The kids could run a hay baler by their early teens,…
President Donald Trump’s efforts to help the U.S. coal industry at home are being undermined by falling sales abroad amid his…
Trump is greenlighting an Alaska megamine—and taking a government stake in the company digging it up
President Donald Trump on Monday ordered approval of a proposed 211-mile road through an Alaska wilderness to allow mining of…
America’s coal-heavy thirst for AI power comes at ‘turning point’ when renewable energies outpace all electricity demand in 2025
Worldwide solar and wind power generation has outpaced electricity demand this year, and for the first time on record, renewable…
The U.S. is about to hold the government’s biggest coal sales in over a decade even as demand wanes. ‘Eventually coal will get pushed out of the market’
U.S. officials in the coming days are set to hold the government’s biggest coal sales in more than a decade,…
Federal land reserves of coal are being leased for mining in Alabama, Montana, Utah, Wyoming and North Dakota in new…
When the Homer City power plant—the largest coal-fired facility in Pennsylvania—shuttered in 2023, it marked the end of a dirty…
China Solar in Shanxi Province Gilles Sabrié for The New York Times J. Emilio Flores for The New York TimesIn…
On June 12th, the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement announced a proposal to…
Teen pageant winner supports Trump’s coal push— ‘It’s not just coal, it’s our way of life’
West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant winner Ava Johnson, 16, collects small pieces of coal left behind at the…












