Ahead of the COP27 climate talks, South Africa released an $8.5 billion plan to transition to clean energy, paid for by the US and other wealthy countries.
Pennsylvania has mountains of waste coal left over from the coal industry. One company is mining Bitcoin with power plants that burn waste coal. But what's the climate impact?
The report by advocacy groups concludes that 96 percent of coal plants are not planning to effectively clean up coal ash dumps covered by a federal rule.
Treatment ponds were the answer to a problem that briefly threatened the creation of the memorial itself. How they came to be still carries weight for the people involved in the work.
The Inflation Reduction Act made permanent the tax on coal that funds benefits to coal miners with black lung disease. In Pennsylvania, 2000 miners have the debilitating disease.
West Virginia residents were unable to pay to connect to a water system that would have provided clean water until the nonprofit, Dig Deep, stepped in.
The decision in West Virginia v. EPA could result in more expensive and restrictive carbon regulation or the erosion of agencies’ ability to address society’s most pressing needs.
