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When a coal company goes bankrupt, what happens to their mines? Thousands of abandoned mines are scattered across the country. With the US coal industry in crisis, the money for clean up is running out.
This isn’t your typical rodeo. There are no horses, no cowboys and no lassos. But you will see skilled natural gas workers wield backhoes and shovels in a competition for bragging rights.
Inside Energy and The Allegheny Front teamed up to look at how the American coal industry is dealing with the latest crisis.
Wind power is growing rapidly across the U.S. But the country’s oldest wind farms are reaching retirement age. So what happens when a wind farm dies?
Why don’t we have wireless electricity? To find out, we went back a hundred years to a man named Nikola Tesla and his dream to send electricity around the world without wires.
Wineries in New York are jumping on the solar bandwagon. For some vintners, it’s an ethical decision.
Coal production is at a 30-year low. Layoffs are moving beyond coal mines to the railroads that transport coal, hitting conductors like Adam Fotta in Grand Junction, Colorado.
Peabody Coal, Arch Coal and Alpha Natural Resources all declared bankruptcy in the last year. When coal companies go broke, who pays to clean up the mines? Inside Energy’s Leigh Paterson explains.
Aspen, Colorado is known for being a wealthy ski town. And now it’s trying for another claim to fame — a 100 percent renewable city, only the third in the U.S.
