Go ad-free with Premium

Jennifer Peeples

A non-permeable cover tops Coal Ash Basin B along the banks of the Elizabeth River in Chesapeake, Va., Monday, June 27, 2016. A lawsuit has gone to a judge over environmentalists claim that there are leaks of arsenic and other heavy metals into a river near Dominion�s abandoned Chesapeake power plant from the coal Ash pits in violation of the Clean Water Act. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) (AP)

The hypocrite’s trap: Inside the coal industry’s rhetorical playbook

Steve Schwarze, Jennifer Peeples, Jen Schneider, Pete Bsumek