coal

U.S. officials have again been faulted by a federal judge for failing to adequately consider the potential climate change effects of expanding a massive coal mine in the sagebrush-covered hills of…

In the shadow of some of America's most controversial coal mines, where companies use huge amounts of explosives to blow the tops off mountains, isolated communities say their water has been poisoned…

It dropped 6% in 2018 alone, and there's reason to believe the phase-out will accelerate. We've been pretty vocal here at TreeHugger about the need to rapidly decarbonize our economies. Yet, in some…

Australia continues to blindly court local and multinational mining companies with one of the largest untapped thermal coal deposits in the world, despite the global pipeline of new coal-fired power…

New wind, solar and biomass power generation displaced hard coal last year – especially in Germany, France and the UK – according to a 2018 review of European electricity statistics by two leading…

Japan’s Idemitsu Kosan, Kyushu Electric Power and Tokyo Gas said on Thursday they have given up their plan to build a 2 gigawatt (GW) coal-fired power station in Chiba, near Tokyo, as it would not be…

Germany is planning to shut down all 84 of its coal-fired power plants over a 19-year span in an effort to combat climate change.  A 28-member government commission announced the commitment on…

From pricing carbon to shifting diets, here’s what we need to prioritize now. Climate scientists told us Friday in the National Climate Assessment that the United States is already experiencing…

Sign here! THERE IS NO TIME TO WASTE Right now, Australia is suffering through heatwaves, droughts and bushfires. And climate change is making these extremes the new norm. Burning coal is a major…

HANOI, Vietnam — Coal, the fuel that powered the industrial age, has led the planet to the brink of catastrophic climate change. Scientists have repeatedly warned of its looming dangers, most…