Yet this struggle has a long history. Ironically, coal itself faced a similar pushback in the early 19th century, when it was the newfangled power source that promised to solve many of the country ...

The cities of south Wales expanded with the increased levels of coal passing through the docks. Cardiff, Swansea and Newport experienced huge population growth through the 19th century due to the ...

In March, President Trump vowed that he would put an end to what he characterized as the “war on coal” by rolling ... energy source that propelled 19th-century travel — because it is far ...

Donald Trump’s new executive orders aimed at reviving the coal industry are a return to 19th century thinking and will poison the air over Ohio if state lawmakers who march to the president’s ...

In the 19th century, the nation essentially switched its entire domestic heating infrastructure, moving from open wood fireplaces to coal-fueled stoves. As the weather turns cold, it might seem ...

Also at Ingrow, John Bracewell added hay and straw to his coal dealing. By the turn of the century, the Keighley Industrial Co-operative Society had coal depots at both the Midland and Great ...

More than a century later, in the late Nineteenth Century, the electricity industry began in the United States. A paper in Energy Policy explores how the cost of coal-fired electricty has changed ...

The process used to manufacture gas from coal on the site produced an oily by-product called coal tar. The tar was stored in an underground container. Department of Environmental Conservation ...

Last week, the Western Australian Museum announced that it had identified the ships as 19th-century merchant vessels, which had been transporting cargo holds of coal when they sank to the ocean floor.

The cities of south Wales expanded with the increased levels of coal passing through the docks. Cardiff, Swansea and Newport experienced huge population growth through the 19th century due to the ...