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

Dr. Hind served as a medical consultant in the aftermath of a 2008 coal ash slurry spill in Tennessee. In a lawsuit, ...

In that incident 5.4 million cubic yards of coal residual sludge slid across 300 acres of land and into the nearby Emory River. It ruptured a natural gas pipeline, damaged or destroyed dozens of homes ...

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 ...

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.