…the GDR, factors like less pet ownership, different nutritional patterns, and exposure to pollutants like coal and wood smoke were linked to lower rates of some allergies. So childhood exposure…

…Ray Stannard Baker’s exposé of workers’ violence during a coal strike. Their carefully detailed studies of the machinations of a single trust, a single city, and a single union personalized…

…turning to wood and coal for cooking, living through near-constant power outages amid an economic crisis worsened by the Trump administration’s steps in recent weeks. Most recently, the US did…

…Iranian drone. [Reuters] The Philippines declares a National Energy Emergency. [Reuters] And Germany considers ramping up coal power to avert an energy crisis. [Politico] Helium production in Qatar, which is…

…we know as acid rain, which seriously affects lakes in Canada, which have little buffering capacity. The biggest source of acid was from coal-fired power plants, but as they are closed…

…the blast furnaces, converters, rolling mills, or coal mines of Cambria Iron or worked for the Gautier plant making barbed wire. The steep hills of the region meant the drop…

Via Salon, David Sirota points to statements by John Boehner and Rand Paul: America owes this debt of gratitude to Boehner after he finally came clean on yesterday’s edition of…

…willing to ‘show us your cuts,’” Milbank writes. “By that standard, few necklaces would be distributed. Democrats and Republicans alike would sooner bare their private parts than come clean about…

…by acknowledging that you’ve actually read some of his deceitful meanderings. When you see his column in print take that page and clean some crap off the sidewalk so that…

…bombers attack Shia festival-goers in Karbala and Baghdad, killing 140 people. 2004 April-May – Shia militias loyal to radical cleric Moqtada Sadr take on coalition forces. Hundreds are reported killed…