The toxicity of coal ash, and the fact that the Trump administration couldn’t care less about it, are two well-established facts. Here we have an article that chronicles the unraveling of previous guidelines by a) easing regulations on what pollutants …
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Most readers will not feel the direct effects of the Trump administration’s rollback of the EPA regulations that had formerly kept toxic chemicals like mercury and arsenic out of our drinking water.
As reported by Bloomberg, Robert E. Murray, the U.S. coal baron who pressed the Trump administration to help save America’s struggling miners, placed his company into bankruptcy as demand for fossil fuel continues to weaken.
Turkey is on everyone’s minds currently, almost exclusively due to their slaughter of the Kurds to their south, enabled by the U.S. betrayal of its former ally. Of far fewer column-inches is Turkey’s oil and gas exploration ships that are …
When the Powder River Basin’s Belle Ayr coal mine opened in 1972 it was the first strip mine opened in the region (Montana and Wyoming). Now it has hit hard times. Its owner, Blackjewel LLC, was in federal bankruptcy court …
You know you’re on thin moral ice when you want to remove a piece of environmental regulation that the industry itself believes is a good idea.
Below is a chart that shows the fall-off of coal consumption in Europe, which I swiped from this article on the over-supply of this dirtiest-of-all fuels.
If anyone is in a position to comment on the strength of the U.S. coal industry, it would be Cecil Roberts, President of the United Mine Workers of America (pictured). That’s what makes the contrast in the following set of …
On my reading list is New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer’s new book, “Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right,” that explores how the Koch brothers and fellow right-wing billionaires have funded a …
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As coal-fired power plants are shuttered due to the high costs of operation relative to renewables and natural gas, it is natural to worry about the financial well-being of the people formerly employed in the industry–even though we need to …
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