OpEd: To incentivize economic growth in our declining coal towns and prevent extensive pollution, what if our mines were repurposed as geothermal sites?

Australia plans to dump one million tonnes of sludge in the Great Barrier Reef ... near Hay Point Port - one of the world's largest coal exports and a substantial economic source for the country.

sending a wave of coal sludge over 300 acres. Making worldwide headlines, the environmental disaster destroyed homes, poisoned a river and would soon sicken nearly all the workers assigned the ...

Jared Sullivan’s Valley So Low begins with the moments in December 2008 when TVA’s Kingston Fossil Plant spilled a billion gallons of coal ash slurry — the toxic sludge of heavy metals ...