When the sun sets on the Tennessee Valley Authority’s use of coal power plants, it won’t set on the utility’s responsibility for the forever waste of coal ash, the product of decades of burning coal.

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Coal jobs have been declining for generations. Now in the town of Keyser, West Virginia, there's a different energy source on the horizon. Sponsor Message : [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: In the audio ...

President Donald Trump is looking to give coal a lift with executive orders he inked on Tuesday. In one of the executive orders, the president instructed the National Energy Dominance Council’s head ...

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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.