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An Ohio state regulator is taking a high-level post at the Interior Department's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, multiple sources told E&E News. → Read More
Congress and the coal industry are fighting over fees and a tenuous national compromise for paying to fix up old mine lands, giant sinkholes and acid mine drainage that plague lands across the U.S. → Read More
EPA has lifted the Obama-era proposed "veto" of the Pebble mine, reversing a decision last year not to scrap the pending mining restrictions on the massive copper and gold project upstream from Alaska's Bristol Bay. → Read More
A federal judge today signed off on the single largest coal-fired power plant closure since 2010. → Read More
Alaska is building the nation’s first coal plant in years. Coal advocates are cheering, but there's sharp disagreement about what it means for the industry's future. → Read More
Will a new plan for the proposed Pebble mine in Alaska scale down risk, or is the company just looking for another route to the same massive mine project that strikes fear in the salmon industry? → Read More
The hottest thing in coal is once again the kind burned to forge steel. → Read More
The Trump International Hotel rolled out the red carpet last summer for the two coal companies that have done the most to curry favor with the owner of the Washington, D.C., luxury destination: President Trump. → Read More
Kentucky politicians and industry interests have turned a hometown power plant into a proving ground for President Trump's campaign promise to save coal. → Read More
A power shift in the House and a new crop of lawmakers have mining critics reviving their attempt to fundamentally change the law that governs the practice, and companies are readying their counterattack. → Read More
Carol Miller ran for office "to cut the bull out" of Washington. Now that she's won, she must leave her own bison behind in southern West Virginia. → Read More
EPA is working on a regulation to limit the agency's ability to nix water pollution permits. → Read More
EPA today unveiled the first of two planned rewrites to landmark Obama-era regulations governing the disposal of coal power plant combustion waste. → Read More
EPA chief Scott Pruitt shocked many when he reversed course on withdrawing Obama-era proposed mining restrictions in Alaska's Bristol Bay region. → Read More
Coal executive Bob Murray said today the fate of his company doesn't hinge on a hot-button Department of Energy proposal aimed at offering a crutch to hobbled coal and nuclear power plants. → Read More
Coal and nuclear power have become so synonymous lately, they are starting to sound like a pair of always-together high school lovebirds. → Read More
MORVEN FARM, Va. — Like at Fukushima and Chernobyl, hemp is being planted in the hills of southwest Virginia. → Read More
The United States would extract less coal and employ fewer miners if the Trump administration is serious about an all-of-the-above path to energy dominance, according to a new analysis. → Read More
How does Senator Don Blankenship sound to you? → Read More
Energy Secretary Rick Perry is scheduled to address mining executives behind closed doors tomorrow at the Trump International Hotel in Washington. → Read More