Tag Archives: coal
Coal company plans Kentucky’s biggest solar farm for old mine site
Amid the decline of coal power, one fossil fuel company is refurbishing one of its old strip mining sites as a solar farm. Berkeley Energy Group is setting up two sites in eastern Kentucky as test locations to see if the concept is feasible. Early es...
Coal Power Plants Linked to Low Birth Weight
Two large nuclear power plants in United State’s Tennessee Valley were closed after The Three Mile Island nuclear incident in 1979. In response to that shutdown, electricity generation shifted to...
Coal’s sharp decline leads to a drop in US energy production
Whether you like it or not, coal power is on the decline... and that's having a marked impact on American energy output. The US Energy Information Administration has published data revealing that the country's 2016 energy production dropped over yea...
Dear Donald Trump: ‘Clean coal’ doesn’t exist
"Clean coal" is an oxymoron. Even if you took a hunk of coal, doused it in bleach and scrubbed it for six hours with a soapy horsehair brush, it would still cause lung cancer and fill the air with carbon emissions when you burned it. Anyone who says...
Trump rolls back Obama-era climate change policies
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that rolls back policies designed to combat climate change implemented by former President Barack Obama. The order is a broad stroke, touching everything from federal policy-making to Energy Star r...
Germany plans to squeeze hydroelectric power out of a coal mine
As coal energy falls out of favor in much of the world, one defunct mine in the heart of Germany's coal country is preparing for a new life as a sustainable power plant. As Bloomberg reports, the Prosper-Haniel mine in the state of North-Rhine Westph...
Emails show new EPA chief is cozy with the fossil fuel industry
There's no question that new Environmental Protection Agency leader Scott Pruitt has a conflict of interest when he previously declared himself the agency's number one enemy. However, it's now clearer just why he so fervently opposes eco-friendly reg...
Great Barrier Reef at Risk due to Coal Dust
Many scientists and environmentalists are in a fury after lumps of coal were found in and around the beaches of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. A native of the region found a baby turtle next to a...
Republicans poised to roll back environmental protections
With astonishing speed, US Republicans are set to strike down laws or vote on a new bills that eliminate environmental protections for the air, streams and national parks. The measures are being tabled so quickly that it has been difficult for enviro...