Coal often contains significant quantities of sulphur in mineral and organic forms, which on combustion yield sulphur dioxide and other pollutants linked to acid rain and respiratory illness.

MASON COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) – A new coal processing plant that’s expected to bring about 500 jobs to Mason County was announced Wednesday. West Virginia was among other states in contention for the ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority is touting a newly operational treatment plan to reduce its land footprint for dealing with coal ash at its six-decade-old, coal-fired Gallatin Fossil power plant in ...

Microwave-assisted coal processing harnesses electromagnetic energy in the microwave band to induce rapid, volumetric heating within coal seams. By converting microwave radiation into thermal energy ...

Duke Energy has begun processing coal ash for recycling at two new plants in Salisbury and Goldsboro, and a third is expected to come online by year's end in Chatham County. The new plants are ...

The closure of a coal processing plant in western Pennsylvania nearly a decade ago has been linked to a dramatic drop in emergency room visits among children with asthma, new research on the health ...

Mountaintop removal to mine coal is not only stupid, it causes such tremendous erosion and soil runoff that nearby streams and rivers are silted and clogged, thus destroying spawning beds of game fish ...

The Center for Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCCC) at the University of Wyoming's (UW) School of Energy Resources is a collaborative group of research scientists and entrepreneurs focused on ...