Coal

Energy Information Administration: Coal production falling faster than expected

"Coal production in the U.S. is falling, faster than expected and long before the U.S. Clean Power Plan, which was stayed by the Supreme...

Supreme Court blocks Obama’s Clean Power Plan pending a lower appellate...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan "until a lower court has resolved the legal case against it," Curtis Tate reports...

While Central Appalachian coal mines shutter, Kentucky imports cheaper coal from...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, (R-Ky.), an outspoken critic of President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan rules to require a one-third reduction in carbon...

Central Appalachian coal production down 40 percent in 2015 as production...

Coal production in the United States reached a 30-year low in 2015, according to a U.S. Energy Information Administration report released last Friday, Bobby...

Study shows that coal particles are much more likely to cause...

Research has found that particles from burning of coal and other fossil fuels are "far more dangerous than average" particulates that pollute the air,...

Series examines coal’s bleak future and the battle lines being drawn...

Nearly 200 old coal power plants have closed in the last five years, and dozens more are on the brink of closure, John Cushman...

Op-Ed: Putting Damaged Land to Good Use

I was reading an article recently about mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining and got to thinking... How many square miles have been cleared in Kentucky...

Local Coal Plant’s Ash Pond Rated On Nation’s Worst List

Louisville made it into another ranking recently, although this time it's a bit of bad news. The Mill Creek Station coal power plant in...