Hyre Stalnaker was working in the carpenter shop at the coal mines of Monongah, West Virginia, when the explosion came. First he heard the blast; then he felt the tremor. Seconds later ...

Government officials in Germany have approved a plan to bring some shuttered coal-fired power plants back online in an effort to avoid energy shortages this winter. Cabinet members on Oct. 4 said ...

Germany’s government is bringing back online several coal-fired units for this winter in an attempt to save natural gas and avoid power supply shortfalls, the Economy and Climate Action Ministry ...

Germany had to make "painful choices" when it evicted activists from a village to make way for the expansion of a coal mine, its climate envoy has told Sky News. Footage of German riot police in ...

Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been detained by German police at a protest over the expansion of a coal mine ... RWE and Germany’s Green party both reject the claim the mine expansion ...

Authorities took Thunberg into custody alongside other activists who were holding a demonstration against the expansion of a coal mine ... the Garzweiler mine in Lutzerath, Germany, on Jan ...

Police detained climate activist Greta Thunberg near Lützerath, Germany, for protesting against a coal mine expansion on Jan. 17. (Video: Jackson Barton/The Washington Post) But as of Tuesday ...

Thousands of people demonstrated in persistent rain Saturday to protest the clearance and demolition of a village in western Germany that is due to make way for the expansion of a coal mine.

ERKELENZ, Germany (AP) — Thousands of people demonstrated in persistent rain on Saturday to protest the clearance and demolition of a village in western Germany that is due to make way for the ...