For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia - and when that coal is gone, so are the jobs.

Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper.

When it comes to climate and energy, Gates is a radical consumerist. In his view, energy consumption is good - it just needs to be clean energy.

In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.

Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.

Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.

Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.