Joe Manchin's Dirty Empire
The West Virginia senator reaps big financial rewards from a network of coal companies with grim records of pollution, safety violations, and death.
Coal
Underworld
Five hundred feet below ground with Ohio coal miners.
I followed them underground, home, to church, to the strip club where they drink and gossip and taunt and jab and worry about one another. I listened while they worried about Smitty, the loner of the group, who had just ordered himself a mail-order woman.
Is Nuclear Power Worth the Risk?
After Fukushima, balancing the risk of another disaster against the rising danger of climate change.
A Lawyer, 40 Dead Americans, and a Billion Gallons of Coal Sludge
In 2008, a federally owned power plant spewed coal sludge over 300 acres in Tennessee. Now, 40 people who helped clean up the mess are dead and 300 ill.
Wilbur Ross and the Era of Billionaire Rule
Trump’s Commerce pick and a government by, and for, the super-rich.
Coal. Guns. Freedom.
The dwindling fortunes of Gillette, Wyoming.
The Fall of King Coal
The dangerous corporate ethos of former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship, who is on trial after an explosion at one of his mines killed 29.
Dirty Coal, Clean Future
America, China, and the case for coal as a vital weapon in the war against climate change.
