Coal

Protesters who blocked coal shipment set for trial

Philip Marcelo · August 31, 2014 6:41 pm

FILE - This Nov. 9, 2009, file photo, shows the coal-fired San Juan Generating Station near Farmington, N.M. The Santa Fe-based group New Energy Economy is challenging the estimated costs of a plan by PNM to close two units at the power plant and replace the power with a mix of coal, nuclear and solar energy. The group contends PNM didn't include more than a half-billion dollars of ongoing capital expenditures in the calculations and failed to weigh the costs of environmental regulations and the disposal of coal ash waste generated by the power plant. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)

Costs of coal power plant proposal challenged

SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN · August 29, 2014 10:28 pm

Energy and Environment

Obama taps Arkansas utility chief for FERC

Zack Colman · August 29, 2014 12:21 pm

There is virtually no way Obama could muster the 67 Senate votes required for treaty approvals because Republicans would oppose a new climate change pact, as would more than a few Senate Democrats. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Is Obama’s war on coal burying the Democrats’ New Deal coalition for good?

Mark Tapscott · August 27, 2014 12:34 pm

Winter blackouts could hit Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, regional grid operator warns

Energy and Environment

Winter blackouts could hit Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, regional grid operator warns

Zack Colman · August 27, 2014 9:00 am

In this May 22, 2014, file photo, Wesley Simon-Parsons, civil and environmental supervisor at Dominion Terminal Associates, stands near piles of coal at the company's coal terminal in Newport News, Va. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Under assault from Big Green, coal is fighting back

Ron Arnold · August 26, 2014 11:11 pm

The Environmental Protection Agency is completely bipartisan in only one respect: its uncontrollable rogue insistence on empire-building.ÃÂ (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Energy and Environment

EPA must disclose power plant rules data, say Republican attorneys general

Zack Colman · August 26, 2014 12:43 pm

Sen. Mitch McConnell responds to a question from reporters following a candidates' forum at the Kentucky Farm Bureau Insurance headquarters Wednesday in Louisville. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Energy and Environment

Sen. Mitch McConnell’s office hits back against shutdown claims

Zack Colman · August 22, 2014 12:09 pm

In this Friday, Aug. 8, 2014 photo, a sheep herder looks over sheep near a state-of-the-art power plant that turns millions of tons of coal every year into methane in northern China's Inner Mongolia province. Deep in the hilly grasslands of remote Inner Mongolia, twin smoke stacks rise more than 200 feet into the sky, their steam and sulfur billowing over herds of sheep and cattle. Both day and night, the rumble of this power plant echoes across the ancient steppe, and its acrid stench travels dozens of miles away. (AP Photo/Jack Chang)

Coal gas boom in China holds climate change risks

Jack Chang · August 22, 2014 7:19 am

TVA board votes to retire Memphis coal plant

TVA board votes to retire Memphis coal plant

Adrian Sainz · August 21, 2014 8:17 pm

The Obama administration has signaled that it might be more willing than Oregon and Washington to allow coal exports from the states, giving the energy industry hope after Oregon nixed a crucial permit needed to ship the fuel abroad.ÃÂ

Energy and Environment

Feds seen as more lenient than Oregon and Washington on coal exports

Zack Colman · August 20, 2014 9:00 am

Communities fight back over transportation of fossil fuels

Energy and Environment

Communities fight back over transportation of fossil fuels

Zack Colman · August 19, 2014 9:00 am