Its five 180-foot-high (54.9-meter-high) boilers are gulping 25 tons (22.7 metric tons) of coal each minute ... is a small power station that looks nothing like Gibson's mammoth boilers and ...

Coal contains a higher percentage of carbon than does oil or natural gas ... but coal-fired power plants still emit pollutants like mercury. They even emit more radioactive elements than a ...

Nicholas. While Santa rewarded the good, Krampus was in charge of punishing the naughty, sometimes with a symbolic gift like coal, according to National Geographic. But why coal specifically?

As clean energy rises, West Virginia looks past Trump’s ... the cost of renewable power sources like wind and solar have become increasingly competitive with coal, further eroding its market ...