coal
Trump’s EPA wants to build more coal plants as consumption falls to 39-year low
December 5, 2018Yet another signal from the Trump administration that it is ignoring dire climate warnings and embracing the polluting fossil fuel industry instead.
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Miners: Tax cut for coal firms threatens black lung benefits
June 8, 2018"The impacts of black lung disease are debilitating and, in the most serious cases, fatal."
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How one coal baron set the Trump administration’s energy agenda
February 5, 2018In a political system awash with money, it's Big Coal vs. democracy.
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Coal executive’s “action plan” finds success under Trump
January 11, 2018In the early days of the Trump administration, Robert “Bob” Murray, the head of one of America’s largest coal companies, sent a four-page “action plan” to the White House calling for rollbacks of Obama-era environmental and...
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When companies deny climate science, their workers pay
December 27, 2017General Electric doubled down on coal. Now, 12,000 workers are paying the price.
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