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King Coal documentary explores Appalachia's loss of coal industry
Elaine McMillion Sheldon's new documentary "King Coal" seeks to complicate the Appalachian narrative as the region transitions from a coal-dominated economy to something else.
This bold plan to kick the world’s coal habit might actually work
Novel climate-financing deals are promising to shut off dirty energy plants in developing countries and retrain their staff to work in the green economy.
Once a mining town, always a mining town?
There’s a political push to dig up minerals deemed critical for a low-carbon economy. But residents in Rossland, B.C., are resisting a new mine.
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Can ravaged economies be healed with a restoration industry?
Cleaning up the West could prove to be as lucrative as the extractive industries that wrecked it.
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WV community worries about life after its coal-fired plant closes
Energy Harbor, the company owning Pleasants Power Station, has said the coal-fired power plant will be sold or closed.
WV lawmakers' coal community bills fall short of ambitions
A West Virginia House of Delegates select committee tasked with finding solutions for coal communities introduced only four bills.
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault: ‘we need to learn to do things faster’
From overseeing 2030 targets to phasing out fossil fuel subsidies, Steven Guilbeault has been tasked with one of the largest to-do lists of the entire federal cabinet.
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