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Trump's Coal-Friendly EPA Rule Decried as 'Sheer Reckless Folly' and 'All-Out Assault on Our Climate and Communities'

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Former Koch Industries Lawyer Turned Top Trump EPA Official Set to Deliver Major Win for Big Polluters

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Trump digs coal

"Even if the president ends up in prison, we're going to be paying for this era for the rest of our lives."

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Trump's 'Immoral' Plan to Allow Coal States to Self-Regulate Could Send 365 Million Tons of Carbon Into Atmosphere

Julia Conley, staff writer

"Yet another reminder that this administration values polluter profits over...

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

Julia Conley, staff writer

"In case anyone was unsure whether this administration is in Big Oil's pocket...

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

Lumps of coal

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

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

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

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Sierra Club

With Coal Plant Retirements, FirstEnergy Solutions Should Concentrate on Treating Workers with Respect - Not Asking Trump for A Bailout

Sierra Club

Trump’s EPA Admin. to Reconsider Whether It’s OK for Coal Plants to Poison Pregnant Women and Young Children

Sierra Club

Sierra Club Launches Ad Campaign Against Trump Administration Efforts to Bail Out Dirty, Uneconomic Coal Plants

Sierra Club

Bernard McNamee Would Lead the Charge at FERC to Bail Out Old, Expensive Coal Plants

Sierra Club

Sierra Club and EDF Take Trump’s FOIA Failure on Coal, Nuclear Bailout Documents to Court

Earthjustice

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

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Basav Sen

Trump Puts Forth an Actual Plan to Kill People for Coal

Sue Sturgis

The Unequal Health Impacts of Trump's Coal Plant Rule

Brett Wilkins

Why Trump Can’t Save Coal From the Ash Heap of History

Ilana Novick

EPA Coal Plan Could Cause Up to 1,400 Premature Deaths Annually (and Trump's EPA Knows It But Doesn't Care)

Mary Anne Hitt

Two Truths and a Lie: Trump Won’t Save Coal or Slow Clean Energy With Clean Power Plan Rollback

Jim Warren

Solar With Storage Surges as Gas Falls

Vernon Haltom

Witnessing Coal's Death March

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

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