The Government Accountability Office finds that 26 coal-burning power plants have reported spills or other unpermitted releases of coal ash from 35 surface impoundments over the past decade. More...

When Massey's Spartan Mining bought the West Virginia coal mine where they once worked but refused to rehire more than 200 miners over the age of 40, they filed suit -- and won. More...

The EPA has promised to more strictly regulate toxic coal ash -- so is it really such a good idea to still be pushing its use on agricultural crops? More...

Coal industry supporters turned out in big numbers for public hearings held yesterday in the Appalachian coalfields -- and their behavior had some environmentalists crying foul. More...

A company wants to place coal ash from the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston power plant into an old mine atop a nearby mountain. But environmentalists and local residents oppose the plan, citing potential health problems. More...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will hold public hearings this week in West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania on the particularly destructive form of strip mining. The hearings come as the Obama administration and others are taking a hard look at the practice. More...

The Mine Safety and Health Administration recently sent warning letters to 10 mine operators with serious recurrent safety and health violations. Most of the operations are coal mines in West Virginia, Virginia and Kentucky. More...

Citizens for Coal founder Roger Horton of West Virginia made the remark in a radio interview. It comes in response to the Obama's administration's announcement that it would take a closer look at the proposed mining operations, which it says raise water quality and environmental concerns. More...

A New York Times investigation finds that millions of U.S. residents are drinking toxic tap water -- and many states across the South and elsewhere are doing a poor job of enforcing laws designed to prevent that from happening. More...

The federal government has released information to environmental groups showing there are 584 coal ash dumps across the country -- almost double the number previously identified. But some utilities including Duke Energy, Progress Energy and the Southern Co. are still withholding data on their dumps, claiming it's "confidential business information." More...

New research by scientists with Duke University and the Georgia Institute of Technology details hazards from the coal ash spilled last year from the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston power plant. The findings come as TVA considers shutting down some of its older coal plants. More...

The President has nominated Joseph Pizarchik to head the federal agency that regulates coal mining practices. Pointing to his pro-industry record as a mining regulator in Pennsylvania, environmentalists are calling on Senators to vote no. More...

It turns out that a P.R. firm working on behalf of the coal lobby forged letters from groups representing women and senior citizens as well as blacks and Hispanics. A lawmaker is demanding answers. More...

Tennessee's tourism industry is under fire because of a proposal by U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander to end destructive coal mining practices. The boycott comes amid heightening tensions over mountaintop removal. More...

A law toughening regulation of coal ash dumps passes in North Carolina, where there are more high-hazard facilities than any other state. Meanwhile, the Tennessee Valley Authority revises hazard ratings for its ash ponds -- but should companies really be making that call? More...

It can take years for ailing coal miners to qualify for black lung benefits -- but then the mining companies and their slick attorneys can force them to do it all over again, Betty Dotson-Lewis reports. More...

The governor of North Carolina -- the state that has more "high-hazard" coal ash dumps than any other -- endorses legislation to increase oversight. But what about the dangers lurking elsewhere? More...

Should burning dirty coal and scrap tires really count as "alternative energy" under law? West Virginia's governor and legislature say yes -- despite the risks to the climate and environmental health. More...

On Saturday, a group of 20 men and women -- some of them wearing Massey Energy-issued shirts -- crashed a West Virginia music festival against mountaintop mining removal and threatened attendees. The disturbing incident was captured on video. More...

An appeals court rules that Massey Energy -- the nation's fourth-largest mining company and a major mountaintop removal operator -- must give jobs back to 85 mine workers it fired because of their union membership and pro-union sentiments. More...