GRAPHICS: What’s the plan? Corporate polluters lag on setting climate goals

Trump campaigned on a promise to bring back coal that is increasingly being edged out of the U.S. power market by cheap, cleaner-burning natural gas.

Coal, which fueled the world’s biggest economies for more than a century, is increasingly losing out to renewables.

Researchers at West Virginia University expect to start extracting, refining and taking to market rare earth elements in a couple of years.

Eskom supplies around 95 percent of South Africa's electricity, predominantly by burning coal.

Even though Russia has nearly five times as many residents as Texas, the Lone Star State's economy is more than $40 billion larger.

The Central African oil producer reached an agreement in principle to restructure its more than $1 billion debt to Glencore and four banks.

Andrew Wheeler was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday to be EPA’s deputy administrator by a vote of 53 to 45.

The world’s 50 biggest investment banks made revenue of $1.6 billion from trading, selling derivatives and other activities in metals last year.

There were cases of displacement of communities, workers subjected to unsafe conditions, as well as soil, water and air pollution.