A Washington Post investigation shows why much of the eastern U.S. is increasingly vulnerable to extreme rain and floods.

The Bloomberg Commodity Index has broken above a two-year downtrend, signaling that the second leg of the 2020s bull supercycle is underway—supported by structural scarcity, macro realignment, and ...

For the past 250 years, people have mined coal industrially in Pennsylvania, U.S.. By 1830, the city of Pittsburgh was using more than 400 tons of the fossil fuel every day. Burning all that coal has ...

Jennifer Lee Broadhurst receives funding from various sources for research purposes, but none that have vested interest in the outcomes of this work. Brett Cohen receives funding from various ...

After the government betrayed them by refusing to enforce a crucial workplace health rule, a group of coal miners traveled to DC to put Trump on notice. Protesters at the coal miners’ rally in ...

What drives Trump’s politics is nostalgia for the age of coal, when dirty fuel and no environmental regulations created his version of a great America. Ad Policy Smoke from the Hugh L. Spurlock ...

Electricity bills are climbing almost everywhere, and the reasons have little to do with ideology. Three forces are driving prices higher: massive new utility spending on infrastructure, rising ...

That's the idea with passive income. Unfortunately, it's not always that easy. Sometimes, investments that initially look promising turn out to be duds after a while. However, some alternatives pay ...

In regard to the recent letter to the editor by Patricia Puterbaugh concerning the return of coal mines and coal fired plants, I imagine this might result in the return of the old steam locomotives ...

The Trump administration is spending more than half a billion dollars to help prop up the dying coal industry. It’s also weakening pollution regulations and opening up more federal land to coal mining ...

Billings, Mont. — A Navajo tribe-owned company bid $186,000 to lease 167 million tons of coal on federal lands in southeastern Montana on Monday in the biggest U.S. coal sale in more than a decade.

A weakening U.S. labor market is a risk for both the U.S. economy and markets right now. But the most closely watched numbers — the rate of new jobs created and the official unemployment rate — don’t ...