How a Grassroots Rebellion Won the Nation's Biggest Climate Victory Activists have imposed a de facto moratorium on new coal—and beat the Obama EPA to the punch.
Map: The Cross-Country Fight Against Coal The Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign seeks to stop new coal plants and shut down existing ones. Our handy map shows you which proposed plants have been blocked, which ones are still progressing, and which ones are already operating.
Calculator: How Much Does Using Coal Really Cost? Electricity from coal is cheap—but that's only because power companies don't pay for the cost of their pollution. If they did, what would your monthly bill look like?
A Photographer's View of Big Coal Documenting the River Rouge plant, a test case for anti-coal activists.
Why Is It So Hard to Clean Up Coal? Two words: money and politics.
Timeline: How We Learned to Love—and Hate—Natural Gas From bridge fuel to fracking, a history of the little blue flame.
