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July 29, 2014
Rebecca Leber
The Coal Industry Has Been Fear-Mongering for 40 Years Now
These old newspaper ads prove the industry's predictions have always been wrong
July 7, 2014
Rebecca Leber
Congress Can't Stop Obama's Coal Regulations at Home, So It's Helping Dirty Plants Abroad
June 16, 2014
Rebecca Leber
House Republicans Are So Mad at the EPA that They Might Force Another Shutdown
June 3, 2014
Danny Vinik
Republicans Had Months to Prepare for War Over Obama's Climate Plan, and This Is the Best They Could Do?
June 3, 2014
Alec MacGillis
Ignore the Pundits: "Coal Country" Doesn't Decide Elections Like It Used To
June 2, 2014
Jeffrey Ball
Obama's Climate Plan Will Only Reduce Global Emissions by 1%
June 2, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Why Enviros Are Saying Such Nice Things About the New EPA Rules
June 1, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Obama to Take Big Step on Climate Change—Will It Be Big Enough?
May 29, 2014
Alec MacGillis
Obama's Dirty, Coal-Loving Past
The coal industry says Obama's new energy rules are the product of his lifelong enmity. His record says otherwise.
May 26, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Obama's New Rules for Coal Plants Are a B.F.D. The Ensuing Political Fight May Be Even Bigger.
May 23, 2014
Jeffrey Ball
The Truth About Stanford's Coal Divestment
April 30, 2014
Rebecca Leber
The Supreme Court Just Saved Thousands of Lives by Standing Up To Coal
February 7, 2014
Claire Carusillo
A Power Plant Spilled Coal Into a North Carolina River, and No One Knows What to Believe
January 14, 2014
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Did John Boehner Take Money from the Company Behind the West Virginia Spill?
January 14, 2014
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Why So Many West Virginians Relied on Water from the Elk River: Industry Already Polluted the Others
January 3, 2014
Jeffrey Ball
5.3 Billion Reasons Why Companies that Built Coal Plants Now Want to Tear Them Down
Meet the unlikely companies profiting off green opposition to coal
September 20, 2013
Molly Redden
Obama's Climate-Change Brawl Began Today
May 30, 2013
Alec MacGillis
Peabody Energy's Coal Train Has Hauled Health-Care Benefits Away
A judge approves a whole new way to cheat U.S. workers
February 19, 2013
Alec MacGillis
The Incredible Disappearing Health Benefits
Can a coal company get away with breaking promises to workers?

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