coal

Los Angeles is kicking coal, but it isn't easy. This labor-enviro coalition is helping low-income Angelenos make the transition—through energy efficiency and jobs.

We can export vast amounts of coal, oil, and natural gas, or we can protect future generations from climate change. We can't do both.

Environmental news in case you missed it

To ship coal from the Powder River Basin to China, you have to go through the heart of the Lummi Nation.

To run his coal trains, the billionaire investor needs to seize land from a bunch of Montana cowboys.

River Rouge, Michigan, is in sniffing distance of a coal-fired power plant, an oil refinery, a sewage-treatment plant, a steel mill, and other industrial polluters.

Mountaintop-removal mines in Appalachia has wiped whole towns from the map.

Sierra traveled to three states to ask people how their lives have been affected by the world's dirtiest energy source--and what they're doing to stop it.