Coal

Energy and Environment

China now emits more than rest of developed world combined: Chart

Josh Siegel · May 6, 2021 2:57 pm

FILE - This Nov. 16, 2015 photo shows an overview of a section of the Mississippi Power Co. carbon capture plant in DeKalb, Miss. Regulators have reached a settlement with Mississippi Power Co. on how much customers should pay for a troubled $7.5 billion power plant once touted as the future of coal. The unit of Atlanta-based Southern Co. is agreeing to lower the price tag on its Kemper County power plant by $85 million, its second round of concessions in two weeks. Shareholders have already lost $6 billion.

Energy and Environment

Biden administration looking to capture carbon from gas and manufacturing

Abby Smith · May 3, 2021 10:19 am

Coal workers union doesn’t always represent coal worker values

Salena Zito · April 26, 2021 11:51 pm

Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry listens as President Joe Biden speaks to the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate, from the East Room of the White House, Friday, April 23, 2021, in Washington.

Energy and Environment

Top Republican accuses Biden of ‘dictatorship’ for climate pledge

Josh Siegel · April 24, 2021 10:30 am

Kids protest climate change.

Coal union bosses sell out their members

Stephen Moore · April 23, 2021 3:00 am

President Biden is this week expected to announce a new greenhouse gas emissions target

Joe Biden dilemma — if he cuts emissions, it will kill jobs

Rob Crilly · April 20, 2021 10:00 am

In this photo provided by U.S. Embassy Seoul, U.S. special envoy for climate John Kerry gestures while speaking during a round table meeting with the media in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 18, 2021. (U.S. Embassy Seoul via AP)

US and China to cooperate on climate crisis as top priority

Kaelan Deese · April 18, 2021 8:50 pm

The U.S. is home to the Permian Basin, the world's most productive oil field.

White House calls Biden’s infrastructure package ‘a climate bill in many ways’ as GOP howls

John T. Bennett · April 2, 2021 6:24 pm

Coal production has declined in recent years due to competition from cheap natural gas.

Energy and Environment

Biden green infrastructure obstacle: Skepticism and ‘resentment’ in coal country

Josh Siegel · March 31, 2021 10:20 am

Harvey Charles stands outside Corsa Coalâs Acosta Deep mine in Somerset County, Pa.

As an industry faces destruction, it grows a voting coalition

Salena Zito · February 28, 2021 5:00 am

Energy and Environment

Here’s why gas and coal went offline during the Texas cold weather catastrophe

Abby Smith · February 19, 2021 11:30 am

That gap in electricity generation is projected to be filled by wind farms in the Texas energy grid known as ERCOT, according to an analysis. (AP Photo/LM Otero, file)

Energy and Environment

What’s behind the dangerous power outages in Texas

Abby Smith · February 16, 2021 3:47 pm