Midwest Has 'Coal Rush,' Seeing No Alternative
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COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa -- From the top of a new coal-fired power plant with its 550-foot exhaust stack poking up from the flat western Iowa landscape, MidAmerican Energy Holdings chief executive David L. Sokol peered down at a train looping around a sizable mound of coal.
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A key problem is that liquid from coal emits twice as much carbon as gasoline. Still, Washington likes the idea.
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By TOM BREEN  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  Although most take it for granted, West Virginia has one distinct advantage in the growing race for alternate sources of energy: water.   Without an abundant supply, coal-to-liquids power plants are hard to run.
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By Mike Riopell  SPRINGFIELD - The state's chance to lure a state-of-the-art power plant and the hundreds of jobs it could bring to east-central Illinois could hinge on lawmakers' repairs to key legislation.
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More than 30 years ago, an abandoned mine in Pennsylvania coal country was turned into a dump for toxic waste. Lots of it
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Blizzards, wind and ice lash midwest states, bringing blackouts and traffic pile-ups
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Power companies are planning to build about 150 coal plants in the next few years. Almost none of them will be built to capture carbon dioxide.
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There is a quiet battle for the future of this industrial town, one of America's most polluted places.
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NEW ENGLAND'S rivers, abundant forests, and whaling industry once made it rich in energy, but for more than a century the region has suffered from being at the end of supply lines for coal, natural gas, and oil. Now an alternative source of energy, grain-based biofuels, is emerging, and once again New England seems to be at a geographic disadvantage. ...
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Energy experts urged nations to move swiftly away from the use of coal and provide new options for the two billion people who still mostly cook in the dark on wood or dung fires.
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By Mike Gorrell, The Salt Lake Tribune  Feb. 9--Utah Mining Association President David Litvin looked at displays  for a proposed surface coal mine southwest of Bryce Canyon National Park and  saw a solution to the country's increasing demand for electricity.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 3 -- The morning fog was still burning off the Allegheny River as workers gathered before 9 a.m. outside the hockey arena where a parade through downtown would later begin -- the electricians, the sheet-metal workers, the operating engineers, and, in greatest number, the coal...
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Blog: U.S. government asked to do more research on coal
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BOXBERG, Germany  - As Chancellor Angela Merkel seeks to convince world leaders to cut greenhouse gases at a G8 summit this week, one of the biggest brown coal-fired power plants ever built is taking shape in this depressed town.
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By CRYSTALR. REID  North Dakota has coal, oil and, more recently, ethanol from its corn.  Its landscape is dotted with corn, wheat, canola, soybeans and pulse crops. In between sit conservation lands, open prairie with native grasses.
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A new report says estimates of coal reserves are unreliable and the U.S. may not have nearly as much coal as is popularly believed.
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KAMP-LINTFORT, Germany  - A tidy German town that has long flourished above its underground treasure of subsidized coal is struggling to cope with the shock after the government decided last week to shut down the mine.