For more than half a century, a coal plant in the city of Holyoke, Massachusetts spewed pollution into the air. Now, the plant is closed, and 17,000 solar panels and a battery storage system–the ...

Sheila Wagoner is not a fan of the wind farm overlooking Keyser, West Virginia. "I really don't care for those windmills," the 71-year-old says. "I guess I wasn't brought up with that kind of society.

Electric utility FirstEnergy Corp., which serves most of northern West Virginia, is going to repurpose a former coal ash landfill for a utility-scale solar farm. The Natural Resources Defense Council ...

A wind farm in Germany is set to be destroyed to make room for the expansion of a coal mine. German energy company RWE is defending its decision to expand its Garzweiler coal mine in and around the ...

: [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: In the audio version of this story, we incorrectly say that coal jobs have been in decline since the 1970s. The decline began in the 1980s.] ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: And I'm ...

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