The Seward Coal Terminal, built in 1984, has sat idle just outside the Seward boat harbor since 2016. (Photo courtesy the Alaska Railroad Corporation) For thirty years Alaska had a small coal export ...

An excavator clears out trees Thursday on an old mine site near Pella in Marion County. A state program is working to reclaim land that was once used for coal mining. The land will be turned into a ...

In Nagasaki prefecture, on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu, J-Power, the operator of the aging Matsushima coal-fired power plant, has an idea to keep the unit operating despite the country’s no ...

When the Homer City power plant—the largest coal-fired facility in Pennsylvania—shuttered in 2023, it marked the end of a dirty era for the coal plants that dominated America’s electric grid for over ...

Several of Asia’s biggest economies are promoting coal gasification as a viable part of their clean energy transition, arguing that turning coal into synthetic gas yields a cleaner fuel and reduces ...