Sep. 3—The retired editor of the Reading Eagle has written a new book about a man who escaped the life of a coal miner to become a star baseball player. "Gentleman Jake: The Success and Tragedy ...

Importantly, the coal industry’s rhetorical playbook isn’t limited to so-called “climate change denial” — although there is clear evidence that the industry has financed several ...

Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from Jonathan Watt's book, When a Billion Chinese Jump: How China Will Save Mankind--or Destroy It. Cold, dark, silent. Close to death. Buried in the ...

A sweeping new book tells how a Knoxville lawyer fought for justice on behalf of workers called to clean up TVA's historic mess.

A raging debate has emerged as to whether clean coal is claptrap or crap trap. On the one side are people who think that clean coal means coal plants with carbon capture and storage for the vast ...

Burning coal produces 40 percent of the world’s carbon-dioxide emissions, the most significant of the heat-trapping gases that are causing the Earth’s temperature to rise.

That’s nearly six times Germany’s entire coal-fired capacity. According to a Climate Action Tracker analysis, all that power amounts to as much as 14.7 billion tons of carbon dioxide every year.

Sep. 3—The retired editor of the Reading Eagle has written a new book about a man who escaped the life of a coal miner to become a star baseball player. "Gentleman Jake: The Success and Tragedy ...