It was a morning unlike anything St. Louis had ever seen. Automobile traffic crawled as drivers struggled to peer through murky air. Buses, streetcars and trains ran an hour behind schedule. Downtown ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Pregnant women who are exposed to coal smoke and pesticides are up to four times more likely to have babies with serious birth defects than women not exposed to these chemicals, ...

The Environmental Protection Agency's new carbon emissions standards have caused an uproar in the coal industry. These rules limit the amount of carbon new coal-fired power plants can produce.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children raised in homes heated by coal may suffer stunted growth from prolonged exposure to indoor air pollution, according to a study of families in the Czech Republic.

Utilities talk clean coal but, in reality, they spend few dollars on it. These charts accompany a column from Dan Weiss, Nick Kong, Sam Schiller, and Alexandra Kougentakis entitled, "The Clean Coal ...

After traversing the major coal deposits in the country, from Aguwatashi in Nasarawa to Enyeama and Oji in Enugu State, Maiganga in Gombe and Okaba in Kogi — and a visit to Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida( ...