By Emily Stamper Auden Schendler is the vice president of sustainability at the Aspen Skiing Company. He’s passionate about climate change. And he acknowleges significant waste in his industry, which caters to skiers who use carbon to fly across the world for skiing and still relies partly on coal-generated electricity to power ski lifts. Skiers come…

By Sam Bower Plans to expand coal operations at Arch Coal’s West Elk Mine in Somerset recently were stalled by a federal judge after environmental groups sued the government for allowing increased extraction. And in the mine’s conference room, West Elk environmental engineer Kathy Welt lamented during a recent interview the lawsuit and the potential…