coal

When mining companies are done digging up coal, the empty pit mines need to be returned to their natural state.But due to a process called self-bonding,…

The Homer City Generating Station rises like a cathedral out of a valley in Indiana County, just east of Pittsburgh. You can see its smokestacks and…

When she was growing up, Julie Bundy’s parents forbade her from playing on the "slate dumps." That was their shorthand for the hundred-foot-tall pile of…

New York is home to some of the oldest power facilities in the U.S. Add in stricter emissions regulations introduced by the Environmental Protection…

Governor Andrew Cuomo has set out an ambitious agenda for energy in New York state and he needs to.Extreme weather events such as Superstorm Sandy have…

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wxxi/local-wxxi-977774.mp3Russell Station - the coal power plant on the shores of Lake Ontario near…

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/national/local-national-958940.mp3Rodney Hulbert has been loading coal at Cornell University's power…

Kodak has its own power plant.It's part of the labyrinthine Eastman Business Park, located here, about four miles northwest of downtown Rochester.It runs…