When the sun sets on the Tennessee Valley Authority’s use of coal power plants, it won’t set on the utility’s responsibility for the forever waste of coal ash, the product of decades of burning coal.

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Coal ash, a byproduct of burning coal to generate power that contains an alphabet soup of toxic contaminants, has been used for decades in Indiana and across the U.S. as construction fill. Here's what ...

This story is part of a series on the future of Utah’s Coal Country. Read the other stories about labor in the coal mines and the economic transition in the town of Helper. Several years ago, Jade ...

Coal jobs have been declining for generations. Now in the town of Keyser, West Virginia, there's a different energy source on the horizon. Sponsor Message : [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: In the audio ...

The Department of Energy’s emergency order to keep two Indiana coal plants open is a big win for the coal industry and a ...

President Donald Trump is looking to give coal a lift with executive orders he inked on Tuesday. In one of the executive orders, the president instructed the National Energy Dominance Council’s head ...

If I didn’t know better, I might have thought Intermountain Power Plant was already dead. When I visited last month, most of the desks had been torn from the administrative building, leaving behind ...

Sheila Wagoner is not a fan of the wind farm overlooking Keyser, West Virginia. "I really don't care for those windmills," the 71-year-old says. "I guess I wasn't brought up with that kind of society.