Coal

Clock is ticking, slowly, on rules for coal-fired power plants

2013-05-12 20:48:00

POOLESVILLE, Md.�— On a curve of the Potomac River 37 miles northwest of Washington, the Dickerson power plant has stood sentry over small villages, crop fields and horse farms for more than half a century. Burning mostly coal and some natural...

Plans shelved for coal export terminal in Oregon

2013-05-08 15:53:00

SEATTLE — The battle over plans for a series of massive coal export terminals across the Pacific Northwest took a new turn Wednesday when the energy company Kinder Morgan announced it was dropping its plan to build a $200-million facility on the...

Letters: When coal and ranching collide

2013-05-01 00:00:00

Re "Ranchers drawing a line in the coal," April 27 With ranchers in southern Montana possibly having their land divided by rail lines to deliver coal to Asia — disrupting their cattle operations and polluting their water — it does seem...

In Montana, ranchers line up against coal

2013-04-26 16:52:00

COLSTRIP, Mont. — Out in these windy stretches of cottonwood and prairie grass, not far from where Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer ran into problems at Little Bighorn, a new battle is unfolding over what future energy development in the West will...

Federal court backs EPA regulation of mountaintop removal

2013-04-23 14:28:00

WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court unanimously backed the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate a controversial form of coal mining called mountaintop removal, overturning a lower court decision that barred the agency from...

L.A. City Council votes to move away from coal-fired energy

2013-04-23 18:45:00

The Los Angeles City Council approved a plan Tuesday to begin moving away from coal-fired energy, despite warnings from a Department of Water and Power watchdog that the shift could cost more than $650 million. Like many utilities, the city-owned DWP...

DWP watchdog warns high cost comes with L.A.'s coal-free plan

2013-04-16 23:29:00

Weeks after Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa celebrated his plan to move the city off of coal-fired energy, a city watchdog has attached a giant price tag to the initiative. Fred Pickel, the ratepayer advocate at the Department of Water and Power,...

$600-million price tag projected for Villaraigosa's coal plan

2013-04-16 18:10:00

Weeks after Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa celebrated his plan to speed up the end of the city's reliance on coal-powered energy, a city watchdog has attached a giant price tag to the initiative. Fred Pickel, the ratepayer advocate at the...

EPA delays rule limiting emissions from new power plants

2013-04-15 12:39:00

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency has delayed indefinitely a much-anticipated final rule limiting greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants. Proposed a year ago, the rule was the first to set limits on carbon dioxide...

L.A. DWP to be coal-free in 12 years under new plan

2013-03-19 09:33:30

Coal's share of power generation slipping

2012-11-30 15:14:00

Coal’s role in fueling power plants is expected to continue to shrink in coming years as old, polluting plants are taken out of operation and power companies turn to cheaper natural gas to generate electricity. In a report to a U.S. Senate...

China uses nearly as much coal as rest of the world combined

2013-01-30 05:56:00

BEIJING -- Those searching for answers to China's chronic smog should consider this: Coal consumption in the world's second-largest economy is nearly on par with the rest of the world combined. That's according to the U.S. Energy Information...

Everyone knows the deal about Santa Clause. Santa is a fat guy in a red suit who flies around on Christmas Eve giving toys to all the children. All the good children, that is. As the famous Christmas song warns us: "He knows if you've been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake.

2012-09-07 08:31:00

An operator holds some coal in his hands at the Midwest Generation's Fisk Generating Station as they worked on cleaning coal built up on the coal bunkers one day before its closing.

2012-08-29 00:00:00

A barricade built by coal miners burns during clashes with the Spanish riot civil guard at the Pozo Santiago coal mine in Aller, in northern Spain, July 6, 2012. The coal miners are protesting against the government's proposal to decrease funding for coal production.

2012-07-06 18:56:00