"Mr. Holmstead’s legal opinions are irrelevant, speculative, and inadmissible," said a federal judge in dismissal of Jeffrey Holmstead as an expert witness.

Every year power plants generate 140 million tons of coal ash, enough to fill a train stretching from the North Pole to the South Pole.

Yesterday the EPA unveiled long-overdue rules to limit the amount of mercury and other toxins which coal producers and other energy producers can release into the atmosphere. As environmental blogger David Roberts notes, these are a very, very