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

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

Julia Conley, staff writer

"The evidence of just how embedded Trump and Zinke are with the dirty energy of the past could not be clearer."

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

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

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)

Polluters wanted the Obama-era regulations weakend. Obsequious Pruitt just...

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

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

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"No one is insulated from the impacts of climate change—people in cities of all...

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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

'Beyond Heartless': Trump Kills Study of Mountaintop Removal Health Impacts

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Utilities Knew, Too: Despite Warning Decades Ago, Industry Lied and Deceived on Climate

Amid G20 Talks, Greenpeace Activists Scale Bridge Demanding 'End to Age of Coal'

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Earthjustice

New Analysis of EPA Proposal Reveals It Fails to Protect Children from Coal Ash Pollution and Removes Polluters' Obligation to Immediately Clean Up Spills...

Sierra Club

FirstEnergy Solutions’ Bankruptcy is a Cautionary Tale for Utilities, Investors, and Public Officials

Friends of the Earth

In Victory for Climate, Ex-Im Bank Will Not Finance Long Phu Coal Plant

Sierra Club

FERC Commissioner Neil Chatterjee Has the Wrong Approach to Helping Coal Impacted Communities

Environmental Working Group (EWG)

Top Coal Lobbyist, Climate Skeptic Poised to Become No. 2 at EPA

Earthjustice

New Industry Data Confirms Toxics are Polluting Groundwater at Coal Ash Dumps

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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.

Jeremy Slevin

These Families Were Directly Threatened by Trump’s Agenda in His First 100 Days

Les Leopold

How the Democrats Lost West Virginia and the Coal Miners To Trump

Jeff Biggers

Let Us Now Praise A Coal Miner: Chuck Nelson Is An American Hero

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