Journalists covering coal (A-K)

See also: Journalists covering coal (L-Z)

Christina Aanestad
San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center
 * "Activists Target Wall Street 7 to Stop Funding Coal," April 16, 2007

Halimah Abdullah
Lexington Herald-Ledger, habdullah AT mcclatchydc.com
 * "Kentucky seeks new liquid fuel," April 29, 2008

Jonathan Amos
BBC News, Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET AT bbc.co.uk
 * "Climate outcome 'hangs on coal'", December 18, 2008

Jackie Ayres
Register-Herald, jayres AT register-herald.com
 * "Coal waste sludge ponds — how safe are they?, December 30, 2008

Ronald Bailey
Reasononline, bailey AT reason.com
 * "Coal Will Still Be King: But can capturing and storing make it climate friendly?" January 20, 2009

Jeffrey Ball
Wall Street Journal, jeffrey.ball AT wsj.com
 * "Wall Street Shows Skepticism Over Coal," February 4, 2008

Tony Bartelme
Charleston Post and Courier, tbartelme AT gmail.com
 * "Young Activists Fired Up in Fight Against Coal," November 19, 2008

Aman Batheja
Star-Telegram, abatheja AT star-telegram.com
 * "Bill would offer tax credits to promote clean coal plants in Texas," January 19, 2009

Joe Bauman
Deseret News, bau AT desnews.com
 * Utah power plant in the spotlight," September 21, 2007

Anna Baxter
WSAZ (West Virginia), anna.baxter AT wsaz.com
 * "University of Charleston to Host Coal Forum," November 19, 2009

Perry Beeman
Des Moines Register, 515-284-8538, pbeeman AT dmreg.com
 * "Proposal for Waterloo coal plant is scrapped," January 7, 2009
 * "NASA official raps coal-fired plant," January 10, 2008

Scott Beveridge
Observer-Reporter, sbeveridge AT observer-reporter.com
 * "Group plans to sue over coal ash," September 13, 2009

Terry Bibo
Journal Star, tbibo AT pjstar.com
 * "Illinois coal plants are being threatened with lawsuit," July 29, 2009

Jeff Biggers
Huffington Post, jrbiggers AT gmail.com
 * Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Hearthland, Nation Books, 2010
 * The United States of Appalachia, CounterPoint, 2005

John Reid Blackwell
Richmond Times-Dispatch, jblackwell AT timesdispatch.com
 * "Rate rise tied to coal plant," February 6, 2009

Dustin Bleizeffer
Casper Star Tribune, 307-577-6069, dustin.bleizeffer AT casperstartribune.net
 * "Coal lobby suggests tax breaks," November 18, 2008
 * "When dust control doesn't work," January 13, 2008
 * "Wyo coal hits another record," January 6, 2008
 * "Will Wyo's electrical export ambitions go up in smoke?," December 16, 2007

Ben Block
Worldwatch Institute, bblock AT worldwatch.org
 * "Climate Protests Escalate Worldwide," November 20, 2008

Nancy Bompey
Asheville Citizen-Times, 828-232-6003, NBompey AT CITIZEN-TIMES.com
 * "Environmental advocacy groups to boycott proposed power plant," January 6, 2008

Seth Borenstein
Associated Press,
 * "Obama left with little time to curb global warming," December 14, 2008

Chris Bowman
Sacramento Bee, 916-321-1069, cbowman AT sacbee.com

Ryan Brinks
Times Republican (Iowa), 641-753-6611, rbrinks AT timesrepublican.com
 * "Alternatives to coal plant argued," January 11, 2008

Drew Brooks
The Star (NC), drewbrooks AT shelbystar.com
 * "Plant progress delayed: Duke Energy awaiting state permit," December 29, 2007

Matthew Brown
Associated Press, Billings, Montana, 406-896-1528, mbrown AT ap.org
 * "Candyman curbs big coal," January 9, 2008
 * "Amid Election, Coal Takes the Offensive" February 27, 2008

Jim Bruggers
The Louisville Courier Journal, 502-582-4645, jbruggers AT courier-journal.com
 * "A quarry quandary: Cleaner coal means more mining in Meade County," August 17, 2009
 * "Renewable power, conservation head list," January 6, 2008

Jeff Burnside
WTVJ Special Projects Unit, 954-622-6192, jburnside AT sej.org
 * "Jeff Burnside: No Reporting About Global Warming on TV in Maine," November 1, 2006

Anne Butterfield
Daily Camera, annefarr45 AT comcast.net
 * "'Clean coal': Are we Betting on the Wrong Horse?," October 28, 2007


 * "Butterfield: Free Market or Caste System?," January 13, 2008


 * Clash of the Titans: Hegemony v. Efficiency," February 10, 2008


 * It's Great to be in Love, Just Keep Your Eyes Open," June 1, 2008


 * Wagons Firmly Circled," March 26, 2009

Dina Cappiello
Associated Press, 202-641-9446, DCappiello AT ap.org
 * "EPA backs rule easing mountaintop mining waste disposal," December 2, 2008

John Carey
BusinessWeek, john_carey AT businessweek.com
 * "Obama's Cap-and-Trade Plan," March 5, 2009

Bob Carmichael
USA Today, 703-854-8349, bcarmich AT usatoday.com
 * Opposition takes on coal plantsOctober 29, 2007

Brendan M. Case
Dallas Morning News, bcase AT dallasnews.com
 * "Inside trades alleged in TXU deal," March 9, 2007

Davide Castelvecchi
Science News, castel AT nasw.org
 * "Clean coal for cars has a dirty side," October 20, 2008

Miro Cernetig
Vancouver Sun, mcernetig AT png.canwest.com
 * "Province announces major 'green' initiatives in Throne Speech," 2/13/07

John Cheves
Lexington Herald-Leader
 * "Taxes help promote mining: Coal industry gets $400,000 a year," 5/15/08

Mark Clayton
Christian Science Monitor
 * "The Candidates on Energy: Hot Topic, Diverse Views," December 3, 2007
 * “Pace of Coal-Power Boom Slackens”, October 25, 2007
 * “Coal in Cars: Great Fuel or Climate Foe?,” March 2, 2007

Robert Collier
San Francisco Chronicle, rcollier AT sfchronicle.com
 * California Says No to Coal, But World Disagrees

Thomas Content
Journal Sentinel, thomascontent AT journalsentinel.com
 * "Oak Creek coal plant settlement uncertain," November 27, 2009
 * "Alliant Moves On From Coal, But to What?," March 5, 2009

Warren Cornwall
Seattle Times, 206-464-2311, wcornwall AT seattletimes.com
 * "Power-plant plan rejected; fails to meet emissions law," November 28, 2007
 * “Power plant would bury greenhouse gas,” July 5, 2007

Jonathan B. Cox
The News & Observer, 919-836-4948, jonathan.cox AT newsobserver.com.
 * "Rethink coal plant, critics urge," April 24, 2007

Robert Cullen
Atlantic Monthly
 * "The True Cost of Coal," December 1993

H.J. Cummins
Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 612-673-4671, hcummins AT startribune.com
 * "The End of Coal," 5/18/08

Mike Dennison
The Montana Standard
 * "Board rejects CO2 regulations for proposed coal-fired power plant," January 12, 2008
 * "Concerns throw state coal plans into limbo," January 6, 2008

Shaila Dewan
New York Times
 * "At Plant in Coal Ash Spill, Toxic Deposits by the Ton," December 29, 2008

Marc Munroe Dion
The Herald News, mdion AT heraldnews.com
 * "Somerset's NRG power plant closing down," November 4, 2009
 * "Group: Patrick's stance will halt NRG Energy's Somerset plant," December 18, 2009

Catherine Dodge
Bloomberg.com, Cdodge1 AT bloomberg.net
 * "Obama’s EPA Raises Objections to South Dakota Coal Power Plant," 1/23/09

Andrew Donoghue
BusinessGreen, businessgreen.press AT incisivemedia.com
 * "Coal giant sees future in biomass," October 23, 2008.
 * "Top 10 sources of pollution named and shamed," October 22, 2008.
 * "Greenpeace calls for North Sea wind grid," September 4, 2008.

Lauren Donovan
Bismarck Tribune, lauren AT westriv.com
 * "Economic pinwheels spinning in Oliver," June 25, 2008

Peter Downs
freelancer with Illinois Times, pdowns AT speakeasy.net
 * "Addicted to coal," (article about Illinois coal politics), April 17, 2008

Alexander Duncan
Platts, alexander_duncan AT platts.com
 * "Reid Says Coal Is 'Ruining the World' January 28, 2008

Kathy Durbin
The Columbian, 360-735-4523, kathie.durbin AT columbian.com
 * "Sierra Club Organizes Effort to Close Coal Fired Plant in Centralia," The Columbian, April 25, 2010

Richard Ecke
Great Falls Tribune, recke AT greatfallstribune.com, 406-791-1467 or 800-438-6600
 * "Loss of federal loan fails to derail four other coal-fired power plants," 10/19/08

John G. Edwards
Las Vegas Review-Journal, 702-383-0420, jedwards AT reviewjournal.com
 * "Ausra opens solar assembly plant in Las Vegas," January 2, 2008
 * "Reid getting tougher on coal," December 7, 2007, with Steven Tetreault

Jim Efstathiou Jr.
Bloomberg, jefstathiou AT bloomberg.net
 * "Mayfly May Thwart $3 Billion in Coal Mined in U.S. Mountaintops," November 13, 2009

David Eggert
Associated Press, deggert AT ap.org
 * "New coal-fired power plants generate opposition," April 14, 2008
 * "Mich. House panel OK's energy plan," January 24, 2008
 * "Granholm touts energy that's green," April 27, 2008

Mark Engler
engler AT democracyuprising.com


 * "Climate Disobedience," Mother Jones, Salon.com, August 11, 2009
 * "The Climate Justice Movement Breaks Through," Yes! Magazine, December 1, 2009

Steve Everly
Kansas City Star, severly AT kcstar.com
 * "Kansas City Power & Light's new coal plant is behind schedule," January 13, 2010

Peter Fairley
Carbon-Nation, Technology Review, IEEE Spectrum, web AT fairley.ca or pfairley AT sej.org
 * "Dispelling Carbon Capture's Scaling Myth," January 7, 2009
 * "Gorilla in the Greenhouse Meets the Coal Machine," December 18, 2008
 * "Zero Tolerance for Carbon-Dioxide Emissions: A Canadian government decides that coal plants must clean up their act," February 28, 2007

David A. Fahrenthold
Washington Post Email form
 * "Environmental Protections Take Hit in Fiscal Crunch," Washington Post, January 26, 2009
 * "EPA Eases Emissions Regulations for New Power Plants," Washington Post, December 19, 2008
 * "EPA Abruptly Backs Away From Proposals to Alter Air-Pollution Rules," Washington Post, December 11, 2008

Lowell Feld
raisingkain.com, lowell AT raisingkaine.com
 * "Dueling Energy Plans for Virginia?", Raising Kaine, September 12, 2007

Mike Fitts
Charleston Regional Business Journal, mfitts AT scbiznews.com
 * "DHEC approves permit for coal-fired electric plant," February 12, 2009

Mike Forsythe
Kansas City Post
 * "You'll have your coal plant, and like it!" November 5, 2007

Joshua Frank
CounterPunch, Truthout.org, Alternet.org, brickburner AT gmail.com
 * "The Myth of Clean Coal," Feb. 13-15, 2009
 * "Will Oregon Close the State's Only Coal-Fired Power Plant?," Oct. 28, 2009
 * "Big Greens Criticized for Climate Compromise" Dec. 8, 2009
 * "Montana's 'Clean Coal' Governor's Climate Change Blunder" Dec. 31, 2009
 * "CO2 Trade War Hits Midwest" Jan. 10, 2010
 * "Will You Be a Victim of Killer Coal?" Jan. 21, 2010

Kate Galbraith
New York Times, kate_galbraith AT harvard.edu
 * "EPA Decision Signals Trouble for Coal," November 14, 2008

Kent Garber
US News and World Report, kent.garber AT gmail.com
 * "Why Clean Coal Is Years Away," March 17, 2009

Peter Gartrell
Energy Reporter Gillette News-Record, 307-682-9306 x211, pgartrell AT gillettenewsrecord.net
 * "Legistlator: Greenhouse gases must be managed," January 8, 2008
 * "The News-Record's annual coal report," January 6, 2008

Dan Gearino
Columbus Dispatch, dgearino AT dispatch.com
 * "AEP given OK to raise rates in Ohio, but about half what it asked," March 18, 2009

Kim Geiger
LA Times, kim.geiger AT latimes.com
 * "EPA commits to set air pollution rules by 2011," October 24, 2009

Keith Goetzman
Utne Reader, kgoetzman AT utne.com
 * "Telling the Story of Mountaintop Removal," July 9, 2009

Russell Gold
Wall Street Journal, russell.gold AT wsj.com
 * "Natural gas tilts at windmills in power feud," March 2, 2010

Jeff Goodell
Rolling Stone, jeffgoodell AT yahoo.com
 * Big Coal's Dirty Move January 12, 2007

Mike Gorrell
Salt Lake Tribune, mikeg AT sltrib.com
 * "Keeping Coal in the Spotlight," March 1, 2008

Nick Gorski
C-Ville, editor AT c-ville.com or news AT c-ville.com
 * "Cleaning up the Plant in Our Backyard," C-ville, February 19, 2008

Matt Gouras
Associated Press, Helena, Montana, 406-449-5542, mgouras AT ap.org
 * "Amid Election, Coal Takes the Offensive" February 27, 2008

Elwin Green
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, egreen AT post-gazette.com


 * "Burning out: Coal prices come back to earth" February 18, 2009

Deirdre Gregg
Puget Sound Business Journal, 206-447-8505 x114, dgregg AT bizjournals.com
 * “Storing CO2 in Rocks May Make Cleaner Power Plants,” September 7, 2007

Marc Gunther
Fortune, mgunther AT fortunemail.com
 * "TXU Faces a Texas Coal Rush," February 19, 2007

Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star, thamilt AT thestar.ca
 * "Natural Gas May Boom By Default," February 8, 2009
 * "OPG sees 27% fall in coal emissions," January 23, 2009

Scott Harper
Virginia-Pilot, scott.harper AT pilotonline.com
 * "Report: Coal plant would add 'harmful' amount of mercury to Chesapeake Bay," October 14, 2009

Andrew M. Harris
Bloomberg, aharris16 AT bloomberg.net
 * "Duke Energy Ordered to Shut Indiana Coal-Fired Units," May 29, 2009

Mark Havnes
Salt Lake Tribune, mhavnes AT sltrib.com
 * "Environmental groups move to stop strip mine," November 20, 2009

Tom Healy
Branches/Nuvo (Indianapolis), 800-352-2817, apple AT branches.com
 * "The Toxic State of Indiana," December 12, 2007

Bruce Henderson
Charlotte Observer, bhenderson AT charlotteobserver.com
 * "Speakers oppose rate hike, coal-fired plant," September 10, 2009
 * "Coal ash scrutiny returns," January 2, 2009

Cheryl Hogue
Chemical & Engineering News, 202-872-4551, chogue AT sej.org
 * "Coal Tar-based Pavement Sealers Implicated as a Source of Urban Water Pollution," February 19, 2007

Don Hopey
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, 412-263-1983, dhopey AT sej.org
 * "W. Va. study unearths higher health risks in coal mining communities," April 2, 2008

Chris Hubbich
LaCrosse Tribune (Wisconsin), chubbuch AT lacrossetribune.com
 * "Beyond coal ... winners and losers: Local utilities support efforts to reduce greenhouse gases but differ on how to do it fairly," November 22, 2009

Siobhan Hughes
Dow Jones Newswire, 202-862-6654, siobhan.hughes AT dowjones.com
 * "DOE's Chu: Administration Moving Ahead With 'Clean Coal' Technology," March 5, 2009

Spencer Hunt
The Columbus Dispatch, shunt AT dispatch.com
 * "Utility contends its project qualifies as "advanced energy" effort because facility would use new type of scrubber," February 23, 2009
 * "'Clean coal' plants hitting snags: Higher construction costs, global warming are hurdles," January 11, 2008
 * "Energy companies plug coal's 'clean' benefits," March 31, 2008

Elaine Jarvik
 Deseret News, jarvik AT desnews.com
 * "Group of moms fired up to cut Utah air pollution," January 6, 2008

Juliette Jowit
The Guardian (Manchester, U.K.)
 * "Coal plans go up in smoke," September 3, 2008

Jeff Kart
The Bay City Times (Michigan), jkart AT bc-times.com
 * "Environmental groups forecast end of coal projects," November 19, 2008
 * "Officials: Power plants still a go despite economy," November 19, 2008

Bob Kelleher
Minnesota Public Radio, bkelleher AT mpr.org
 * "Judges report delivers a blow to proposed Iron Range power plant," April 13, 2007

Sarah Kessinger
Harris News Service
 * "Sunflower considers Missouri plant an option," January 13, 2008

Michael T. Klare
The Nation, mklare AT hampshire.edu
 * "Obama's Energy Challenge," November 10, 2008

David Klepper
Kansas City Star, dklepper AT kcstar.com
 * "Coal-plant decision fires up critics," May 11, 2009
 * "Kansas Senate OKs Bill for Coal Plants," March 5, 2009

Edward Klump
Bloomberg.com, eklump AT bloomberg.net
 * "Redford Takes on 'Goliath' in Texas"

Alison Knezevich
Charleston Gazette, alisonk AT wvgazette.com
 * "W.Va. House resolution supports Coal River wind farm," April 2, 2009

Chris Knight
Express-Times, cknight AT express-times.com
 * "Environmental group says Slate Belt coal-ash dump inadequately protecting against groundwater contamination," May 11, 2009

Bill Kovarik
Radford University, 540-831-6033, wkovarik AT radford.edu
 * "Buffalo Creek Remembered," February 2007

Clifford Krauss
New York Times, krauss AT nytimes.com
 * "An Export In Solid Supply", March 19, 2008

Kristen Kridel
Chicago Tribune, kkridel AT tribune.com
 * Illinois Lands Clean Coal Plant December 18, 2007

Jens Manuel Krogstad
wcfcourier.com, jens.krogstad AT wcfcourier.com
 * "Board calls for coal plant moratorium" January 16, 2008