Once the dominant source of energy in the United States, today, 401 coal units supply roughly 16 percent of the nation’s grid ...

New interior secretary quietly orders millions of acres of protected lands to be reviewed for potential oil, gas, uranium and ...

Part 1. How the fall of the coal industry changed politics in eastern Kentucky: The decline of coal jobs caused economic collapse in eastern Kentucky. In the 1970s, Pike County was one of the ...

A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: ...

A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: prisons.

A miner in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan poured water over a block of jade, exposing the green stone that is part of ...

This month, we talked to Bob Yoho, the former president of West Virginia Writers who writes westerns and has been published ...

2:12 Hearings into proposed Grassy Mountain Coal Mine wrap up Hearings into proposed Grassy Mountain Coal Mine wrap up Public hearing for Grassy Mountain coal project underway The society said ...

He said Tent Mountain was the only other legacy coal mine in the area, and it ceased operations in 1983. Some other projects north of the area might benefit, he said, but coal mining is still a ...

In the decade since, Rio Tinto has sought to pivot away from fossil fuels. It has exited coal mining completely and instead sought to grow its copper and lithium businesses. Glencore by contrast ...

The Alberta Energy Regulator’s hearing for the controversial Grassy Mountain Coal Mining Project has come to an end. Australian owned Northback Holdings has applied to drill and mine the site ...