If we allow Patriot, Peabody and Arch to renege on their promises to their workers, retirees and widows, we'll be failing our fellow Americans.
WASHINGTON -- Alana Green worked underground. Not for the CIA or the police, but in a coal mine for eight hours a day, six days a week, for five years...
Shareholder season is upon us, marking the beginning of another round of corporate America's dog-and-pony shows held to placate their cronies and pat each other on the back for another profitable year.
In Friday's Wall Street Journal story, "States Cooling to Renewable Energy," ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force Director Todd Wynn claimed, "I have not received one dime to work directly on renewable-energy mandates."
The United Mine Workers is suing Peabody and Arch, saying they can't walk away from their obligations. But this isn't the first time coal companies have figured out a way to avoid social responsibility.
While Mitt Romney has flip-flopped on climate and energy issues, he has surrounded himself with people tied to the climate denial industry.
Jim Talent, who oversees coal industry lobbying and then endorses coal in a Romney policy paper, symbolizes how Romney's "No Apology" mantra might play out in Washington -- as president, it seems, Romney could hand over public policy to special interests.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a legal challenge from environmental groups that sought to block federal coal leases in Wyoming'...
A new report analyzing more than two dozen Standard & Poor 500 companies found that despite their public pronouncements about the reality of global warming, three-quarters of them at least indirectly hindered climate change mitigation efforts.
Woody Guthrie put it best when he sang, "This land is your land." Until, that is, someone steals it from you.
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- The Navajo Nation has settled its allegations that a coal mining company conspired with others to cheat the tribe out of hundreds ...
This week Peabody Energy agreed to a typical class action suit remedy: provide a free inhaler to any child afflicted with asthma who lives close to a coal-fired power plant. There's only one problem: the press release was a prank by culture-jamming satirists.
It appears that a merry gang of agitprop pranksters associated with the Yes Men have pulled a fast one on Peabody Energy, the self-described "world's ...
How will America embark upon a new energy frontier when we're promoting backwards policies that not only prolong the use of coal in the U.S, but also further enable dirty and destructive energy habits abroad?
Next time you buy an iPod, don't forget to add the CO2 cost of moving coal from Powder River Basin, Wyo., to Guangzhou, China.
The conflagration in Libya will be over soon. But the entire Middle East will never be the same. The only timetable you can count on is an uneven, long lasting period of political volatility that will thrust oil prices up in fits and starts.
Anyone who thinks Indiana's Republican Governor Mitch Daniels should run for president hasn't paid much attention to the dark cloud hanging over Duke Energy's new coal gasification plant.
Peabody Energy announced its quarterly profits have doubled due to international operations. Despite concerns over water supplies, desertification, and workplace safety, they announced an intention to open mines in Mongolia.
Just like other dangerous and corrupting corporations before it the coal industry when feeling the pressure in the U.S. has always tried to target the workers, communities and countries least able to resist their abuses.
As Big Coal corporate and government leaders from around the world converge in St. Louis this weekend for the Global Energy Future Forum, mysterious b...
Last night I debated the role of coal in our country's energy future with Peabody Energy VP of Government Relations Fred Palmer on the campus of Washi...
The Foidel Creek Mine in Routt County is one of Colorado's most productive coal mines, churning out more than a quarter of all the coal mined in the s...
But pith and power 'till my last hour I'll make this declaration. We were bought and sold for English gold Sic a parcel of rogues in a nation. --Rober...
Consider this: The Fisk Generation Station in Pilsen, which has spewed nearly 50,000 tons of toxic pollution over the past three years, was built before the invention of the Model T.
Big Coal is writing the talking points for the House GOP that attack the American Clean Energy & Security Act, coming up for a vote as soon as next week.
