Where there is coal, there is coal dust, one of the biggest nuisances for coal-fired power plants. The U.S. produces more than 1 billion tons of coal each year, and more than 90 percent is used to ...

When Xcel Energy stopped burning coal at its Valmont Power Station in 2017, it left 1.6 million tons of toxic coal ash on the ...

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 ...

A new exhibit, “Evidence: Coal Dust in Hampton Roads,” combines data and archival evidence including photos and newspaper articles dating to the 1920s to detail the Newport News communi… ...

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 ...

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway has required coal that will be transported in rail cars to be sprayed with a surfactant, a "topper agent," since 2011. "It creates a 4-inch crust on the top of ...

LYLE, Wash. -- At the railroad berm that divides Horsethief Lake from the Columbia River, you can stick your hand between the rocks and come up with fistfuls of crumbly coal-black pebbles and dust ...

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 ...

Shares in Coal of Africa fall 5 percent after the miner's water use licence at its controversial Vele Colliery in South Africa -- the project is in proximity to a UNESCO World Heritage Site -- has ...

Measurable amounts of coal dust are present on schools, playgrounds and houses in South Baltimore's Curtis Bay neighborhood which is bordered by an open-air coal terminal, according to a new Johns ...

Accidents are common in Ukraine’s aging coal mines. Methane gas, a byproduct of coal mining, is highly explosive. In 2007, a methane blast killed more than 100 miners, the deadliest mining ...