The Cost of Coal

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.

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.

The coal-fired Reid Gardner Generating Station dumps its combustion waste into uncovered "ponds" beside the Moapa Band of Paiutes Reservation