The Latest Breaking News from Coal

There are many milestones to pass in the transition from a high to low-carbon sustainable energy system. There is the first hour without coal, or oil, or gas generation (or all of them together) and the point when the last coal, oil or gas power plant (or all of them…

The president is never slow to recall his early years in the former Pennsylvania coal-mining town but still faces questions about his age and effectiveness

EPA to implement improvements to coal-fired power stations

Another climate summit has come and gone. The 28th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28 to you and me) took stock of the world’s progress in limiting global heating to 1.5°C. This is the guardrail scientists have advised world leaders to make every…

Unearthed by industrious coal miners in North Dakota, a mammoth tusk measuring seven feet in length has captured the attention of paleontologists. Discover...

A proposal from hydropower company Rye Development could see the site of a former coal mine in Bell County repurposed as a pumped energy storage facility.

A striking development in recent years has been the increasing role of state governments in responding to global crises.

New solar installations have accelerated the transition away from natural gas and coal in two of Europe's leading economies.

The proposed changes remove the requirement to assess the risk of subsidence from gas wells, the Environmental Defenders Office says

Australia's biggest polluter AGL Energy has made a final investment decision on a big battery that marks another milestone in the end of coal-fired electricity.

For years large fossil fuel producers — including Australia — have expanded fossil fuel production while maintaining rhetorically that the world needs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But global emissions are overwhelmingly caused by the extraction, transport and burning of fossil fuels. Unless fossil fuels are phased out, emissions will…