The underground coal bins extended beyond the foundation’s edge below the Hyman Street sidewalk. Large plates of steel covered their tops. When it was time for a coal delivery the plates would be ...

The U.K. used coal power to drive the Industrial Revolution and expand the British Empire. It's now the first major economy to quit the fossil fuel, a primary contributor to global warming.

But stations are now buying cheaper fuel from abroad, and British coal miners say they feel betrayed by their government. NPR's Leila Fadel visited that last mine.

SALISBURY — When a tanker truck left the Buck Steam Station in September carrying a load of recycled coal ash, it marked a milestone for Duke Energy. Four years earlier, Duke was ordered to ...