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

It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.

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

Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal.

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.

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

Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change.