Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.

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

Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.

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

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

In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.