The United States produces 1 billion tons of coal a year, most of it burned in the nation’s 600 coal-fired utilitiies. In the competition between energy and water, coal is in a league by itself.

Coal ash ponds are contaminating groundwater across the country, but the consequences are unclear because the government doesn't monitor them. At more than 70 sites across the country, toxins like ...

A neon green tint in a Tulsa creek flowing through Sequoyah Park prompted investigation, but hazmat crews deemed the water ...

BEIJING — Qingwei Sun, who investigated and wrote two revealing reports for Greenpeace in the last two years on how China’s giant coal sector uses, and in some cases abuses the nation’s water reserves ...

Coal-fired power plants are closing, or being given firm deadlines for closure, across the country. In the Western states that make up the overallocated and drought-plagued Colorado River, these ...

The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday it intends to set more stringent standards on water pollution from coal power plants, reinstating regulations that the Trump administration had ...

Within three to four months of publishing their findings, the researchers said coal companies immediately took action to ...

As a candidate, Donald Trump promised that he'd shake up the economy to benefit "the forgotten man." But his economic policies have included deregulation in ways that can harm the very people he ...

The use of a chemical transport model may become increasingly helpful as a method of simulating the release, transport and fate of chemical constituents in process water streams. Craig Schuettpelz, ...

Driving through the Wyoming sagebrush west of Cheyenne, the clouds of dust rising from the road give way to giant plumes of steam shooting into the warming sky. This is the Jim Bridger power plant, ...

In 2008, a levee holding back a mountain of sodden coal ash at a power plant in Kingston, Tennessee, suddenly broke loose and spilled into two rivers. Three homes were destroyed and dozens more were ...

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has stopped receiving coal-powered electricity from its last remaining coal ...