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Speak Your Piece: Turning Bombs into Fuel?

Tom Bennett · Jul 9, 2015

With the 70th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki approaching, the U.S. is wondering what to do with the plutonium it no longer needs for nuclear weapons. The U.S. Department of Energy would like to convert it for use in nuclear power plants. Other folks aren’t so sure about that proposal.

Speak Your Piece: Doomed to Repeat It?

Keely Kernan · Jun 5, 2015

West Virginia’s natural gas boom should be eerily familiar in a state that has lived through more than a century of mineral extraction. For some, this second round of rural industrialization is ruining homesteads and shattering…

Beyond Coal

Coal’s Long Goodbye: Production Flat-Lines

John H. Cushman Jr. · Jun 2, 2015

The long-term prognosis for coal is poor. Competition, alternative energy, regulation, and declining financial backing show an industry in peril for the next quarter century.

Beyond Coal

Mountaintop Removal Moves Closer

Tim Marema · Apr 28, 2015

An environmental advocacy group, using satellite images and a Google app, has documented the spread of mountaintop removal coal mining in Central Appalachia. Mines have gotten closer to human settlements since 1999. And they are linked to…

BioFuels and Energy

Speak Your Piece: 29 Dead, Nothing Changed

Davitt McAteer · Apr 6, 2015

Five years ago a mine explosion in West Virginia killed 29 miners. It was a result of a coal company ignoring baic safety as well as federal and state regulations. The Governor’s Independent Investigation into the Upper Big…

BioFuels and Energy

2016 Budget: Rural Business Development

Tim Marema · Feb 4, 2015

A rural child poverty program, a healthy-foods initiative and loans both large and small are part of the Obama administration’s proposed budget for a key part of the USDA Rural Development agency. Today the Yonder takes a peak at the…

BioFuels and Energy

Budget Proposes Mine Reclamation Jobs

Tim Marema · Feb 2, 2015

The president’s budget proposal includes a $1 billion boost for mine reclamation that could help hard-hit coal regions replace lost jobs.

BioFuels and Energy

Speak Your Piece: Coalfield Justice at Last?

Betty Dotson-Lewis · Jan 15, 2015

West Virginians and other residents of the Appalachian coalfields are watching the historic proceedings against the former head of Massey Energy, Don Blankenship.

Pipeline Issue Unresolved, Say Neb. Lawyers

Tim Marema · Jan 13, 2015

A Nebraska Supreme Court ruling doesn’t provide any clarity about the future of the Keystone XL pipeline, landowners' lawyers say. TransCanada, the pipeline company, says it’s moving forward with plans to acquire land for…

BioFuels and Energy

Trahant: 4 Reasons Keystone Will Fail

Mark Trahant · Jan 7, 2015

The new Congress is pushing approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which would carry tar-sands crude oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. But even when Congress takes action, the pipeline isn't going anywhere, says Native American…

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BioFuels and Energy

Speak Your Piece: Turning Bombs into Fuel?

Speak Your Piece: Doomed to Repeat It?

Coal’s Long Goodbye: Production Flat-Lines

Mountaintop Removal Moves Closer

Speak Your Piece: 29 Dead, Nothing Changed

2016 Budget: Rural Business Development

Budget Proposes Mine Reclamation Jobs

Speak Your Piece: Coalfield Justice at Last?

Pipeline Issue Unresolved, Say Neb. Lawyers

Trahant: 4 Reasons Keystone Will Fail

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