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Enlarge / US Energy Secretary Rick Perry in the East Room of the White House in 2018. (credit: Getty Images) At a hearing on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Energy Secretary Rick Perry expressed his willingness to help coal and nuclear plants out with an emergency order similar to one requested by energy firm FirstEnergy earlier […]
Enlarge / SHIPPINGPORT, PENNSYLVANIA – OCTOBER 27: A view of the inactive cooling towers at FirstEnergy Corporation’s Bruce Mansfield coal-fired power plant October 27, 2017 in Shippingport, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images) (credit: Getty Images) On Saturday, power corporation FirstEnergy placed its coal and nuclear generation units under chapter 11 bankruptcy. Although coal and […]
West Virginia cast a higher percentage of its votes for Donald Trump (68.6 percent) than any other state in the union in 2016. It also had a higher proportion of drug overdose deaths (52 per 100,000 people) than any other state — for the seventh year running. It’s Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito’s job to […]
Sungrow The Chinese province of Anhui built a massive floating solar farm on top of an abandoned coal mine. An even larger floating solar plant will come online by May 2018. Due to rising concerns surrounding air pollution-related deaths, China is trying to invest more heavily in renewable energy projects. A new study indicates that, […]
Enlarge / Oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. There are nearly 5,000 functioning oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, and 27,000 abandoned wells. (Photo by: Dave Walsh/VW Pics/UIG via Getty Images) (credit: Getty Images) Last week the Interior Department’s Royalty Policy Committee issued a recommendation suggesting that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke lower royalty […]
The segment that spawned a lawsuit. “Coal: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)” A West Virginia judge dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by coal giant Murray Energy Corporation and its CEO Robert Murray against Last Week Tonight host John Oliver after the HBO show ran a segment criticizing Murray and the coal industry in […]
Getty Images/Bryan Bedder A judge has dismissed a lawsuit a coal company CEO brought against HBO’s John Oliver. Oliver ran a segment on his show “Last Week Tonight” in June making fun of Murray Energy CEO Robert Murray. Murray sued Oliver, accusing him of making “defamatory statements.” MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia judge […]
The Trump administration has been eager to prop up the US coal industry despite evidence that it’s in a steep decline. But did it have much of an effect? Not really. Reuters has obtained preliminary Mining Health and Safety Administration data showing that there was negligible job growth in coal mining during 2017. The field […]
Here’s an insider tip for any aspiring entertainment journalists who might be reading this beastly feature: when pitching an idea to your editor, always know the workload before presenting your case. Like, for example, if you agree to rank every Christmas horror movie (possible), don’t cockily scoff a “I’ve seen a bunch already, how many can there actually […]
For the record, there are only 193 countries who are members of the UN General Assembly. We’re short on mathematicians right now, but that seems like a lot of support for the resolution. Of that list, only Guatemala, Honduras, Israel, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, and Togo actually did the thing and voted ‘no’ […]
