Coal companies are “going to try to use this virus thing to stop paying benefits,” warned one retired miner suffering from black lung. (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Some of the largest coal companies in ...
Wealthy countries have left developing countries with an ugly choice: to forgo carbon, the cheapest fuel, and then forgo social development for their populations; or to continue to use carbon and threaten the planet. In ...
The new toxic coal ash rollbacks join a litany of other slashed environmental protections, from methane to asbestos to carbon emissions. The Trump Administration’s relentless rollbacks of environmental protections continued on Monday, as the Environmental ...
Fine particulate matter has been on the rise in the U.S. since 2016, a disturbing reversal in recent U.S. air pollution trends for environmentalists. A new study released this October by the National Bureau of ...
Chubb’s new anti-coal policy demonstrates how the insurance industry can help mitigate the climate crisis. It seems like every day there is a new story of a pipeline spilling crude oil or an oil refinery ...
“The fate of coal has been sealed, the market has spoken.” This April, the United States generated more power from renewable resources than coal for the first time in U.S. history, according to a new ...
The results found that 74 percent of existing national coal capacity “was at risk from local wind or solar that could provide the same amount of electricity more cheaply.” According to a new study from ...
“Our report proves that coal plants are poisoning groundwater nearly everywhere they operate.” (By Valerie Volcovici, Reuters) – More than 90 percent of U.S. coal-fired power plants that are required to monitor groundwater near their ...
Coal miners have literally provided the fuel for the unprecedented industrialization of this country. (By Simon F. Haeder, The Conversation) Coal mining continues to be one of the most hazardous professions in our society. Even ...
Many mining operations in the region are operating without valid permits, and as a result, have been the defendants in numerous lawsuits. The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, showed the world what horrible tragedies can ...
A federal grand jury in Kentucky indicted eight former managers at Armstrong Coal for deceiving coal mine safety organizations and exposing coal miners to dangerous coal dust that causes black lung disease. The indictment alleges ...
In October 2016 Vietnam air pollution levels skyrocketed to second worst in the world, things aren’t looking better a year and a half later. Hanoi residents were exposed to severely unhealthy ambient air quality for ...
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