The Latest Breaking News from Coal

Moranbah coal miner Scott Leggett puts his job on the line to call out the safety culture within the industry.

A cooling tower collapse has taken another generation unit offline at a major Queensland coal power plant which already has one unit out of action until April.

Gas-fired power plants have likely reached their peak share of the U.S. power mix. High prices and renewables are to blame.

Rachel Carson, a scientist and writer from rural Pennsylvania, published Silent Spring 60 years ago. Many credit this book, which meticulously documented the damage that DDT pesticides were inflicting on wildlife, farm animals and people as early as the 1950s, with launching the modern environmental movement.