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Utilities Knew, Too: Despite Warning Decades Ago, Industry Lied and Deceived on Climate
Coal power plant in Wyoming
Amid G20 Talks, Greenpeace Activists Scale Bridge Demanding 'End to Age of Coal'
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Only if the major industrialized countries swiftly move from coal to renewable energy can the most catastrophic consequences of climate change be prevented." —Susanne Neubronner, Greenpeace Germany As the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, heads into its final day following a long night of climate talks —during which U.S. President Donald Trump...
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Ruthless Coal CEO, Blamed for 29 Deaths, Asks Trump Not to 'Punish' Executives
Nika Knight, staff writer
Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship was released last week from prison...
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Six Environmental Heroes Awarded This Year's Goldman Prize
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Six grassroots environmental activists are being honored on Monday with the...
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Pruitt's Coal Mine Speech Heralds Resurrection of "Dirty Polluting Past"
Coalition Takes Trump's Order to Pillage Public Lands for Coal to Court
The coal-powered Castle Gate power plant in Utah, pictured in 2007. The plant was closed in 2015.
Contrary to Spin, Trump Slashing Energy Jobs With New Executive Order
Trump inauguration protest
EPA Chief Touts Plan to Undo Climate Regulations, Pull Back from Paris Deal
A protest against a coal-powered power plant in Melbourne, Australia, in 2010.
Coal in 'Freefall' Worldwide, Report Finds
A sign at the protest in San Diego, California.
Drain What Swamp? Trump Sends Coal Lobbyist to EPA and Boeing Exec to DoD
Bernie Sanders discusses the decline of coal jobs with a coal miner in McDowell County, West Virginia.
'Healthcare is a Right': Bernie Sanders Finds Common Ground in Trump Country
Trump Receives Right-Wing Wish List to Gut Rules on Climate, Nutrition, Wages
It's Love for Coal, Not Workers as GOP Gives Miners 'Slap in the Face'
Trump's Advisers Want to Privatize Native Lands for Big Energy: Reuters
Trump Expected to Name Billionaire Wilbur Ross as Commerce Secretary
Trump's "Open Mind" on Climate Denounced as Just "Empty Rhetoric"

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