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A coal-fired power station in Witbank, South Africa
Climate Change
World leaders agree to help South Africa phase out coal
In this Jan. 16, 2020, file photo an uniper coal-fired power plant and BP refinery steam beside a wind generator in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
The Big Fix
What Germany can teach the US about quitting coal
Kentucky mining supply company
Environment
After coal: A new book and documentary chronicle ‘stories of survival in Appalachia and Wales’
The San Nicolas mine in Spain's northern region of Asturias is the last working coalmine in all of Spain. At its peak, it employed around two thousand people — today, about two hundred people work there.
Climate Change
Spain’s coal miners continue to wait for their country’s ‘Green New Deal’
Steam rises from a power plant
Environment
New report finds subsidies for coal are rising, not falling, in G20 countries
A man wearing a hard hat is silhouetted against old heavy windowpanes in a factory.
Climate Change
Poland is a coal country. But for how long?
A man in mining gear exits a shaft. Signs in Polish flank the opening.
Climate Change
Polish artists turn coal into ‘black gold’ as the mining industry shifts
forest
Environment
How a forest became Germany’s poster child for a coal exit
coal power plant in germany burns dirty
Business, Economics and Jobs
Before coal disappears from Germany, more villages will
A haul truck at Peabody Energy's Rawhide coal mine near Gillette, Wyoming. The past few years have been tough for the coal industry in Wyoming — the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2016.
50 States
A Wyoming town looks beyond coal … to new uses for coal
A rig (L) surrounds the top of one of the chimneys of Battersea Power Station as demolition work is carried out, in London, Oct. 2, 2014.
Economics
Why the UK has an easier time than the US divorcing from coal
A hill of coal sits under a shelter at the Prosper-Haniel coal mine. The mine is closing after 150 years.
Environment
In Germany, miners and others prepare for a soft exit from hard coal
A section of the Hambach lignite mine in Germany's Rhineland coal fields, whose coal-fired power plants, run by power giant RWE, are one of Europe's largest sources of CO2 emissions.
Environment
Germany talks a good game on climate, but it’s still stuck on coal
A group of miners wearing black polos and several onlookers watch President Donald Trump as he holds up a signed version of his most recent executive order, “Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth.”
Jobs
President Trump, with new coal jobs on the horizon, what will you do to keep miners safe?
President Trump shakes hands with a coal miner
Environment
Two US coal miners, two very different perspectives on the future of coal
Stream pollution from coal mining
Environment
The GOP Congress killed Obama’s Stream Protection Rule. Now what?
Trump coal supporter
Conflict
Coal country is pinning its hopes on Trump
Coal efuse pile
Environment
The decline of coal means less money to clean up coal mining’s toxic past
MTR explosions
Health
Dust from mountaintop mining promotes the growth of cancer cells, a new study says
American Chestnut Tree
Environment
Residents of Appalachia try to give new life to old mines using a beloved chestnut tree
Environment
Pacific Northwest governors urge federal officials to look closely at coal export proposal
Business, Economics and Jobs
Mexico’s Zetas gang joins coal mining business for bigger profits
Environment
Locals concerned by local, global impact of increased coal exports
Environment
Powder River Basin coal companies eyeing Asian markets
Environment
Coal country incensed at what it sees as Obama’s overreach on coal regulations
Business, Economics and Jobs
VIDEO: Spanish coal miners strike, galvanize public support
Global Politics
Energy company reaches federal settlement in connection to Upper Big Branch mine disaster
Business, Economics and Jobs
Massey Energy blamed for West Virginia mining disaster
Business, Economics and Jobs
Helping kids escape coal mining’s shadow
Development & Education
The Price of Colombian Coal
Arts, Culture & Media
Scholastic distributed coal propaganda in schools
Coal and Shortened Lives in China
Another Coal Port Bites The Dust
Voices of Coal
India’s Coal Killing Thousands
Environment
Plan to ship Wyoming coal to Asia runs into opposition from Northwest greens
Mozambique Coal Rush
Conflict & Justice
Coal Miners’ Revolt Gives Frustrated Spaniards a Voice, and Some Rockets
Controversy Over Northwest Coal
Business, Economics and Jobs
Miners vs. Farmers in Australia
Environment
Top Coal Producing Nations
Black Lung is Back
Clean Air Battle Heads to Supreme Court
Coal’s Future
West Virginia Mountain Top Mining Controversy
Hold on Coal
Calculating Coal’s Toll
Dueling Coal Ads
Killing for Coal
Turning up the Heat on Coal
Another Dirty Side of Coal
Defending Coal’s Victims
OxyFuel
Miner Safety Getting Shafted?
Fire Beneath Their Feet
Chinese Coal Rush
U.S. Coal Losing its Glow?
Fill ‘er up ?with coal?
Aussie Miners Tackle Global Warming
Coal Controversy Down Under