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In Ruling on Coal Mining, Federal Judge Issues Latest Rebuke of Trump's Attack on Public Lands

'Simple Laws of Economics' Doom Remaining US Coal Plants as Solar, Wind Are Now Cheaper

Julia Conley, staff writer

"America has officially entered the 'coal cost crossover.'"

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Citing 'Permanent Oil Price Decline,' Norwegian Fund's Fossil Fuel Divestment Could Spark Global 'Shockwave'

Jon Queally, staff writer

"The decision should sound like a red alert for private banks and investors...

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In 'Wake-Up Call' for Nation, Study Using Industry's Own Data Finds 9 in 10 Coal Plants Are Causing Toxic Pollution

Julia Conley, staff writer

"The pollution is basically everywhere you look."

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Who Else Might Like Medicare for All? Retired Coal Miners Who Just Had Their Health Benefits Ripped Away

Sunrise Movement Vows to Make Sure Kamala Harris' Green New Deal Support Goes Beyond Embrace of 'Buzzword'

With National Tour Targeting Untapped Youth Power, Sunrise Movement Aims to 'Make Green New Deal an Inevitability'

Trump Earth sign

Report on President's Environmental Record 'Reminds Us That Trump Soap Opera Has Dire Real-World Consequences'

The Longview Power Plant, a coal-fired plant, stands on August 21, 2018 in Maidsville, West Virginia.

As Trump Pushes Planetary Destruction at COP24, Investors Holding $32 Trillion Demand Bold Climate Action

'Dirty, Dying, and Dangerous' Fossil Fuel Industry Only Winner as Trump's Coal Bailout Architect Confirmed to FERC

'Worst Possible Choice': Pressure Mounts on Schumer to Keep Pro-Coal Joe Manchin From Powerful Energy Post

Marchers in Philadelphia carry a sign reading Clean Energy Revolution

While Trump Aims Again to Prop Up Coal, Campaigners Say Nothing 'Is Going to Change the Move Toward Clean Energy'

Activists hold placards and shout slogans against the energy policy of the German government during an anti coal Protest on December 1, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. Protests are taking place today in Berlin and Cologne ahead of the United Nations COP 24 climate conference that will begin tomorrow in Katowice, Poland. (Photo: Michele Tantussi/Getty Images)

As Coal-Sponsored Climate Summit Opens, Campaigners Declare, 'Business as Usual' Not an Option

G20

In 'Historic Moment' for Climate Action, Wales Pledges to Leave Its Remaining Coal in the Ground

Critics on Guard Against Pro-Coal Agenda Even as Rick Perry's Bailout Plan Proves 'Too Far a Stretch Even for Trump White House'

Newswire

Earthjustice

Indiana Regulators Reject Utility’s Proposal for Massive Gas Plant

Environmental Working Group (EWG)

Former EPA Head Scott Pruitt Hired as Lobbyist to Save Coal in Indiana. (He Can’t)

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Trump Administration Ignores Environmental Impacts of Mining 30 Million Tons of Coal near Bryce Canyon National Park

Center for Biological Diversity

Trump Aims to Make Former Coal Lobbyist Wheeler Permanent EPA Chief

Environmental Working Group (EWG)

Trump Nominates Ex-Coal Lobbyist, Andrew Wheeler, To Head EPA

Sierra Club

FERC Ethics Official: McNamee Must Recuse Himself from Coal Bailout Decisions [He Still Hasn’t]

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Juan Cole

Tipping Point: In Historic First, US Renewables Made More Electricity Than Coal in April

Tom Engelhardt

Plenty of 'Collusion' for The Ultimate Crime: Lighting the Earth on Fire

Sue Sturgis

Who Will Pay to Clean Up Duke Energy's Coal Ash Pits?

Craig K. Comstock

Can China Save the Planet?

Jeff Biggers

Climate Storytellers Inspire Roadmap to Action

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

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