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NewslettersFortune Archives: Pivot to coal
By Indrani SenFebruary 15, 2026
The CEO of coal producer Peabody Energy, Jim Grech, left, hands a trophy to U.S. President Donald Trump during an event on the use of coal in the East Room of the White House on Feb. 11, 2026 in Washington, DC. The lobbyist group, the Washington Coal Club, awarded Trump the inaugural "Undisputed Champion of Coal" award. Trump also is signing an executive order directing the Defense Department to buy electricity from coal-fired power plants. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
EnergyThe Trump administration calls its climate change policy shift the ‘largest deregulatory action’ in history—but experts say the impact will be limited
By Jordan BlumFebruary 12, 2026
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Environment‘You have an entire culture, an entire community that is also having that same crisis’: Colorado coal town looks anxiously to the future
By Brittany Peterson, Jennifer McDermott and The Associated PressDecember 6, 2025
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EnergyIEA heralds ‘the Age of Electricity’ while warning that oil may not peak in 2030 after all
By Nick LichtenbergNovember 12, 2025
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Health‘They ain’t worried about the miners or people in West Virginia or coal miners anywhere’: Black lung sufferers despair over DC’s distance
By Margie Mason and The Associated PressNovember 7, 2025
EnergyIt’s not just soybeans. China also stopped importing U.S. coal amid Trump’s trade war
By Mead Gruver and The Associated PressNovember 1, 2025
President Donald Trump listens as Interior Secretary Doug Burgum speaks to reporters in the Oval Office at the White House, Monday, Oct. 6, 2025, in Washington.
Workplace CultureTrump is greenlighting an Alaska megamine—and taking a government stake in the company digging it up
By Matthew Daly and The Associated PressOctober 7, 2025
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EnergyAmerica’s coal-heavy thirst for AI power comes at ‘turning point’ when renewable energies outpace all electricity demand in 2025
By Alexa St. John and The Associated PressOctober 7, 2025
EnergyThe U.S. is about to hold the government’s biggest coal sales in over a decade even as demand wanes. ‘Eventually coal will get pushed out of the market’
By Matthew Brown, Mead Gruver and The Associated PressOctober 4, 2025
With the shuttered Homer City coal plant in the background, at the Lucerne Reclamation project site in Pennsylvania, a worker moves coal refuse to be prepared for transport to be cleaned on June 12, 2024. The soil, contaminated by coal refuse, is cleaned and returned to the land where it is encased and covered with top soil and planted as a meadow.
EnergyHow the AI data center boom is breathing new life into transforming dirty, old coal plants
By Jordan BlumAugust 31, 2025
A blurred trump walks in front of a wind turbine.
EnergyTrump declares war on clean energy. The numbers show it’s the only thing keeping America’s lights affordable
By Matthew Daly and The Associated PressAugust 22, 2025
Trump signing papers
EconomyFederal lands larger than Delaware move closer to coming up for sale to coal mining companies
By Matthew Brown and The Associated PressJuly 8, 2025
West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant winner Ava Johnson, 16, collects small pieces of coal left behind at the former Kay Moor coal town and camp in the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve near Fayetteville, W.Va., Thursday, April 17, 2025
PoliticsTeen pageant winner supports Trump’s coal push— ‘It’s not just coal, it’s our way of life’
By Leah Willingham, John Raby and The Associated PressApril 27, 2025
A coal-fired power plant
TechSilicon Valley’s intense energy demands for AI are making coal-fired power plants a hot-ticket item again
By Marc Levy and The Associated PressApril 26, 2025
PoliticsTrump signs executive orders to boost coal mining and energy production: ‘We’re ending Joe Biden’s war on beautiful, clean coal once and for all’
By Matthew Daly and The Associated PressApril 9, 2025
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