Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.

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

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

If you think Wall Street firms have it good, you haven't looked closely at Big Oil.

When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.

One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.

Compared to coal, which generates almost half the electricity in the United States, natural gas is indeed a cleaner, less polluting fuel. But compared to, say, solar, it's filthy. And of course there is nothing renewable about natural gas.