Wind Project in Wyoming Envisions Coal Miners as Trainees

A Chinese turbine maker with a practice of seeking local workers sees benefit in focusing attention on a core group of Trump supporters in need of jobs.

Retired Miners Lament Trump’s Silence on Imperiled Health Plan

Coal company bankruptcies have left coverage for retirees, many with chronic ailments, in federal hands. Unless Congress acts this month, benefits will end.

2 Tennessee Cases Bring Coal’s Hidden Hazard to Light

By TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG April 15, 2017 GALLATIN, Tenn. — The hulking Gallatin Fossil Plant sits on a scenic bend of the Cumberland River about 30 miles upstream from Nashville. In addition to generating electricity, the plant, built in the early 1950s...

2 Tennessee Cases Bring Coal’s Hidden Hazard to Light

By TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG April 15, 2017 GALLATIN, Tenn. — The hulking Gallatin Fossil Plant sits on a scenic bend of the Cumberland River about 30 miles upstream from Nashville. In addition to generating electricity, the plant, built in the early 1950s...

Tribes That Live Off Coal Hold Tight to Trump’s Promises

By JULIE TURKEWITZ April 1, 2017 CROW AGENCY, Mont. — The pale yellow halls of the Crow government building here are nearly empty these days, with 1,000 of this tribe’s 1,300 employees recently laid off. Across the way, Rebecca Ten Bear Reed and...

News Analysis: Planned Rollback of Climate Rules Unlikely to Achieve All Trump’s Goals

News Analysis By CORAL DAVENPORT March 27, 2017 President Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Tuesday to roll back most of President Barack Obama’s climate change legacy, celebrating the move as a way to increase the nation’s...