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Leaving Room for Trump's Signature, Coal Baron Provided Drafts of Pro-Industry Executive Orders

Trump Taxpayer-Funded Coal and Nuclear Bailout Decried as 'Breathtaking Abuse of Authority'

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Trump

Critics called the plan an "outrageous ploy" by Trump "to help his rich friends" at the expense of Americans' pocketbooks and the environment

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'History Going in the Wrong Direction' as Worst Form of Black Lung Disease Rises Again

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Lumps of coal

Researchers "surprised by the magnitude of the problem"

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Senate Confirms Coal Lobbyist as #2 at EPA as Trump Moves to Slash Clean Air Rules

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

air pollution

The president just granted "a polluter's dream" while federal lawmakers...

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There You Have It: Emails Confirm Coal, Oil, and Gas Extraction Drove Shrinking of National Monuments

A 2012 photo by advocacy group Appalachian Voices shows "a horrific mess more than three years after" the coal ash disaster at the Kingston Fossil Plant in Tenn. took place. (Photo: Appalachian Voices/flickr/cc)

Ending Rules to Curb 'Silent, Tasteless Killer,' Pruitt Makes It Easier for Polluters to Poison Nation's Water

climate mayors

Citing 'Urgent Threat' of Climate Crisis, 236 US Mayors Denounce Trump's Attack on Clean Power Plan

SunPower is halting a $20 million expansion that would have created hundreds of American jobs in one of the country's fastest-growing sectors, as a result of President Donald Trump's tariffs on solar imports.

Trump-Imposed Tariffs Claim First Victim as Solar Company Halts Hiring, $20 Million Expansion

Green Groups Welcome Regulators Rejection of Perry's "Ludicrous" Plan to Bail Out Coal and Nuclear Industries

Pruitt Attempts to Redefine Environmentalism as Excuse to Pollute

'Sham': EPA Ripped for Holding Lone Public Hearing on Clean Power Plan Repeal in Coal Country

'Giant Leap Backwards' as Global Carbon Emissions in 2017 Soaring to All-Time High

Chanting 'Keep It In the Ground,' Thousands Descend on German Coalfields

Trump's Insistence on Coal Revival Finds Pushback Even In Coal Country

Costs and Climate Be Damned, Rick Perry Seeks to Prop Up Coal, Nuclear Plants

The EPA placed a delay on a rule that would have limited wastewater pollution from coal-fired plants.

'Mind-bogglingly Dangerous': Trump EPA Rolls Back Water Pollution Limits for Coal Plants

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Earthjustice

Trump Administration’s New Rule Weakens Toxic Coal Ash Pollution Safeguards

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

White House Whims Are Not Grounds for Emergency Coal, Nuke Plant Bailouts, Science Group Says

Sierra Club

Sierra Club Statement on Trump Administration’s Latest Attempt to Bail Out Money-Losing Coal and Nuclear Plants

Earthjustice

Federal Lawsuit Filed to Force Dynegy to Clean Up Toxic Pollution of Vermilion River

Sierra Club

Governor Cuomo Commits to Power Plant Pollution Protections New York Sets Example for Nation

Sierra Club

With Coal Industry in Decline, Alpha and Contura Merge

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Brett Fleishman

HSBC Divests From New Coal Projects Everywhere... Except Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Vietnam

Ahmed Mokgopo

How a Development Bank is Propping Up the Fossil Fuel Industry in South Africa. And Why it Must Reverse Course

Glen Tyler

Coal Communities in South Africa Want Coal to Stop

Russell Mokhiber

Don Blankenship, Dead Miners, Humility, and the Limits of Free Speech in West Virginia

Basav Sen

How One Coal Baron Set an Entire Administration’s Energy Agenda

Carla Santos Skandier

When Companies Deny Climate Science, Their Workers Pay

Mary Anne Hitt

We Will Fight Scott Pruitt's Attempts To Scrap The Clean Power Plan In Charleston

Jeff Biggers

Coal Kills And Coal Is Not Dead

Ben Ishibashi

How We Beat Trump’s Dirty Power Play

Jeff Biggers

Dear Media: Trump’s “Beautiful, Clean Coal” Is Another Lie. Please Hold Him Accountable.

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