Climate & Energy: Dirty Energy
Warrior Up!
By Jeff Galbraith February 14, 2014To ship coal from the Powder River Basin to China, you have to go through the heart of the Lummi Nation.
Warren Buffett's Coal Problem
By Marc Gunther May 4, 2013To run his coal trains, the billionaire investor needs to seize land from a bunch of Montana cowboys.
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The Cost of Coal, Combustion: Michigan
By Steve Hawk November 13, 2012River 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.
The Cost of Coal, Extraction: West Virginia
By Steve Hawk November 13, 2012Mountaintop-removal mines in Appalachia has wiped whole towns from the map.
The Cost of Coal: Gallery
By Steve Hawk November 13, 2012Sierra 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.
The Cost of Coal: Videos
By Steve Hawk November 13, 2012Sierra 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.
The Cost of Coal, Disposal: Nevada
By Steve Hawk November 13, 2012The coal-fired Reid Gardner Generating Station dumps its combustion waste into uncovered "ponds" beside the Moapa Band of Paiutes Reservation
Strip Mine Holiday
By Jesse Wood September 30, 2012A mountaintop-removal coal mine threatens Fayetteville's new outdoor-adventure economy