Trump Administration Rolls Back Coal Plant Wastewater Rule
This week, the Trump administration rolled back an Obama-era regulation requiring coal plants to install technology that treats wastewater for toxic chemicals. The move could negatively affect more...
View ArticleGrading Electric Utilities' Big, Green Goals
According to the EPA, fully one quarter of American greenhouse gas emissions are created by generating electricity, donemostly by burning coal and gas. These companies, like many others, have also seen...
View ArticleCan Our Climate Survive Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is a novel form of currency that bypasses banks, credit card companies and governments. But as Reveal’s Elizabeth Shogren reports, the process of creating bitcoin is extremely energy intensive,...
View ArticleThese moms want the world’s largest money manager to divest from coal. So...
On a narrow dirt path in Westchester County, four small children dressed as superheroes in a rainbow of satiny capes and masks picked dandelions on the grassy roadside. As they giggled and chanted for...
View ArticleCan Our Climate Survive Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is a novel form of currency that bypasses banks, credit card companies and governments. But as Elizabeth Shogren reports, the process of creating bitcoin is extremely energy intensive, and it’s...
View ArticleLocked Up: The Prison Labor That Built Business Empires
After the Civil War, a new form of slavery took hold in the US and lasted more than 60 years. Associated Press reporters Margie Mason and Robin McDowell investigate the chilling history of how Southern...
View ArticleThe Battle for Clean Energy in Coal Country
Montana has a long history of making money by extracting and exporting its natural resources, namely coal. State politicians and Montana’s largest electricity utility company seem set on keeping it...
View ArticleThe Battle for Clean Energy in Coal Country
Montana has a long history of making money by extracting and exporting its natural resources, namely coal. State politicians and Montana’s largest electricity utility company seem set on keeping it...
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UK to shut down coal-fired power plants by 2025
The sun rises behind Fiddlers Ferry coal-fired power station near Liverpool, northern England, on Dec. 15, 2008. The UK will shut down coal-fired power plants by 2025, according to UK officials. Photo...
View ArticleCOP21: U.S. Coal Industry Looks for a New Path Forward
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.Over the weekend at the COP21 climate summit in Paris, nearly 200 countries signed on to a landmark agreement to protect the environment.Though an...
View ArticleCOP21 and The Clean Power Plan: Can The U.S. Live Up to Its Pledge?
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.This week we're exploring how the global agreement produced at the COP21 climate change summit will impact the carbon intensive energy industry...
View ArticleThe Battle for Clean Energy in Coal Country
Montana has a long history of making money by extracting and exporting its natural resources, namely coal. State politicians and Montana’s largest electricity utility company seem set on keeping it...
View ArticleThe Battle for Clean Energy in Coal Country
Montana has a long history of making money by extracting and exporting its natural resources, namely coal. State politicians and Montana’s largest electricity utility company seem set on keeping it...
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