GLEN DANIEL, W.Va. — Chuck Nelson spent his life in this corner of Appalachia, working for years in the coal mines — a good job in the economically depressed area. But he says the industry ...

Environmentalists contend coal dust and coal pieces blowing and falling from trains into some 75 waterways along the BNSF tracks through the Columbia River Gorge, to Seattle and north to British ...

The Sierra Club and other environmental groups sued BNSF railway and coal companies in federal court Wednesday, charging that they pollute the Columbia River and other water bodies with coal dust ...

BNSF noted Tuesday it’s already using the best commercially available technology to address coal dust. It issued rules in 2011 requiring coal to be loaded in a bread-loaf shape and then sprayed ...

The water district manager said they think the dust came from the mine. Landowners near Eagle Pass coal mine had water shut down from wind-blown dust San Antonio Express-News Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

SEATTLE — The federal Surface Transportation Board has decided that BNSF Railway can require coal shippers to use certain methods to reduce the amount of coal dust lost from rail cars leaving ...

The Greenpeace report evaluated the water usage of 8,359 existing coal plants as well as 2,668 planned plants around the world. Most of the water consumed by the coal industry is used as a coolant ...

Protesters said both city and company leaders have ignored the problem for years, and claim the coal dust has led to respiratory illnesses and cancers. Skip Navigation Share on Facebook ...

Coal dust. Re “The queen fairy is ‘miffed’: Norfolk cuts off limbs of popular ‘Fairy Tree’ for a public works project” (Aug. 1): I’m not one to pour water on civic activism ever. The ...

Electric power production from coal is on a steep rise in major developing countries, including China, India, Indonesia, South Africa, and Vietnam, albeit declining in developed countries such as ...

Didi believed that the chimney emissions test was necessary to find another source for the coal dust pollution in Marunda. Previously, the Environmental Office of Jakarta sanctioned two coal stockpile ...

AT a meeting of the Physical and Chemical Section of the Bristol Naturalist Society, on January 26, a paper was read, by Mr. Donald M. D. Stuart, upon “The Chemistry of Colliery Explosions due ...