News Keeps Getting Worse For Coal

There is a lot of spin that Trump's election will be a good thing for coal. For instance, he has nominated the coal-industry backed anti...

Clean Power Plan Appears in Court

Arguments challenging the EPA's Clean Power Plan (CPP) will be heard in the US Court of Appeals in Washington, DC this week. Here is a n...

Shipping Coal Abroad Is Banned by Oakland, California

  T he city of Oakland California has unanimously turned down permitting of a large coal transshipping terminal on its waterfront.   Earlie...

Peabody Coal Funded Climate Change Deniers

Anyone following the current events associated with the science of climate change should be aware of how the fossil fuel industry funds the ...

Coal Industy Ugliness Exposed

Of course, climate change deniers are famous for making claims that defy logic. Among these are efforts to defend the coal industry. A commo...

More Bad News For Coal

The U.K.'s Department of Energy and Climate Change released statistics showing, for the first time ever, the U.K. produced more energy ...

Deaths From Air Pollution Increasing

A study by the World Health Organization has estimated outdoor air pollution caused 3.7 premature deaths worldwide in 2012. Some 88% of tho...

More Lies From Tom Harris

Tom Harris has posted another of his lies, this time comparing the coal industry to someone falsely accused of a crime. You can read it here...

Good News About Coal

Coal is a complex topic. On one hand, it is one of the most ideal of energy sources. It comes out of the ground ready for use and even comes...

President Obama’s Clean Power Plan to Reduce Emissions

The Administration’s Clean Power Plan will significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the electric power industry over the next fift...

I Don't Believe Jeb Bush

Jeb Bush said recently the GOP should become the "party of science," being quoted as saying: I think as conservatives we should em...

Peabody Energy's War On Science

After seeing wind power cost coal about $900 million last year, it isn't difficult to understand why coal is waging a war on science. Pe...

Why Coal Hates Wind Power

Fossil fuel industry shill Tom Harris has been on a campaign recently denouncing wind power. The reason is pretty obvious - wind power cuts...

Is It Feasible to Replace Coal With Solar?

With recent developments on the climate change-fighting front, I had to ask myself if it was feasible to replace all of the coal-fired powe...