Here’s some bleak news for the coal industry: As much as 65 percent of the U.S. coal fleet could find itself under threat in the years ahead, thanks to cheap natural gas and stricter air-pollution regulations. That’s according to a new peer-reviewed study by three researchers at Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment, who take… Read more »
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Open thread for night owls: Coal companies rip off miners’ pensions
As the grandson of a coal miner and United Mine Workers organizer, this piece written by my friend Bill McKibben boils my blood: America’s Dirtiest Coal Company: If you go to the website of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the Eastern District of Missouri, you can read more than 1,000 letters from retired coal miners… Read more »
NBC Alarmism: Could Penguins Be ‘Canary in the Coal Mine’ of Global Warming?
In a report on Monday's NBC Today about declining penguin populations in Antarctica, correspondent Kerry Sanders didn't take long to lay the blame on man-made climate change: "Penguins are most certainly the ambassadors to the bottom of the world….But the ambassadors are also sounding an alarm….ten of the world's 18 penguin species are in trouble….The… Read more »
As coal industry declines, what will happen to all those retired miners?
The U.S. coal industry has been struggling in recent years. Mining companies are getting crushed by rising costs, new pollution rules and competition from cheap natural gas. Mass layoffs are ticked up of late. But there’s another aspect to the decline of coal that’s getting less attention — namely, what will happen to the hundreds… Read more »