Break the Ban: Tell a Solution...

May 10, 2013 by

Hope isn’t blind optimism. It’s a sense of possibility.

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On ‘Unburnable Carbon’ and the...

May 6, 2013 by

A new buzz phrase in the push to limit greenhouse gas emissions is “unburnable carbon” —

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On ‘Unburnable Carbon’ and the...

May 5, 2013 by

[Translate] fossil fuels May 3, 2013, 11:13 am 143 Comments By ANDREW C. REVKIN A new buzz phrase in the push to limit greenhouse gas...

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EPA Refuses to Curb Deadly Coa...

May 5, 2013 by

Poisonous gases, smog-creating chemicals, climate-disrupting methane, ..

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Big Coal loses out in Indiana

May 3, 2013 by

Tough break for the coal industry in Indiana

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The Sun Is Rising in the West

May 1, 2013 by

…Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced a few weeks ago that his city would be off coal power entirely by 2025..

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The Geopolitics of Climate

Apr 25, 2013 by

It’s time to re-imagine the global climate conversation.

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World’s energy nearly as dirty...

Apr 22, 2013 by

We produced almost as much greenhouse gas for every unit of energy used in 2010 as we did in 1990

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Meet the woman who shut down C...

Apr 20, 2013 by

Last summer, clean-air activists celebrated the shutdown of Chicago’s notorious Fisk and Crawford coal power plants,..

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Fewer Midnight Coal Trains to ...

Apr 18, 2013 by

We all know how the story goes: if you misbehave you will get a lump of coal..

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Keystone Emissions Seen as Equ...

Apr 17, 2013 by

The Keystone XL pipeline would increase greenhouse-gas emissions by 181 million metric tons,..

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Nevada utility: Screw this, co...

Apr 7, 2013 by

Last year, I wrote about the Reid Gardner coal-fired power plant in Nevada;…

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Charles Scott Howard, Whistleb...

Apr 5, 2013 by

WASHINGTON — A panel of federal judges ruled Thursday that a Kentucky miner who was fired two years ago ..

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Nevada utility to stop burning...

Apr 4, 2013 by

More good news on America’s shift away from coal: …

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BNSF Railway To Be Sued By Con...

Apr 3, 2013 by

Several conservation groups on Tuesday announced plans to sue Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway ..

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The Coming Crash: Our Addictio...

Mar 31, 2013 by

Richard Heinberg talks about the new book “Energy: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth,”…

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How a New Study Seriously Chal...

Mar 27, 2013 by

Leakages of gas in production and distribution systems can lead to higher greenhouse gas levels..

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Cheap Natural Gas Is Hammering...

Mar 27, 2013 by

The claim that we can frack our way to energy independence…

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Sequester Hits US Coal Miners

Mar 26, 2013 by

Sequestration Guts Mine Safety Grants..

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States Put Coal Exports In Spo...

Mar 26, 2013 by

Washington And Oregon Governors Call For Greenhouse Gas Study

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Bad News for Pessimists Everyw...

Mar 25, 2013 by

There is a tempting intuition to the idea that the real prices of non-renewable goods like coal..

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Report: Coal Killed 100,000 in...

Mar 12, 2013 by

A groundbreaking new report has, for the first time, estimated the human toll from India’s dirtiest fuel source.

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Coal Kills — Time to Kil...

Mar 7, 2013 by

A report published today by Europe’s Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) is a powerful wake-up call about the dangers of coal-fired power.

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Nine reasons China won’t need ...

Feb 27, 2013 by

U.S. coal companies claim that exporting low-grade coal from the Powder River Basin…

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Another sign of the apocalypse...

Feb 15, 2013 by

If there were a war on coal — which, sadly, there isn’t — it appears that the tide of battle has turned.

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‘Life-Saving’ Sili...

Feb 15, 2013 by

A work safety rule that scientists say would save lives in the construction and mining industries is still caught in red tape at the White House..

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Coal’s Darkest Hour: Fitch War...

Feb 12, 2013 by

U.S. coal companies have been hit hard by a decline in demand…

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Have coal companies been rippi...

Feb 8, 2013 by

The coal industry, for as much as it whines and frets and fake-cries…

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‘Off the scale’ sm...

Jan 29, 2013 by

Residents across northern China battled through choking pollution on Tuesday..

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