Join us for a book launch event with Bob Wyss, author of Black Gold: The Rise, Reign and Fall Of American Coal.

This event is open to all and books will be available to purchase at the event. A book signing will follow.

Black Gold has been acclaimed as “the best environmental history ever written about the coal industry and the fascinating people who ignited America's industrial revolution.” Portions of the book are being excerpted in the October issue of Natural History magazine and the October 5 issue of the Seattle Times Pacific NW magazine. Author Bob Wyss in interviews has harshly criticized the Trump administration’s flawed energy policy and one national interview can be found at Sea Change Radio’s August 19 broadcast. It can be found here: https://www.cchange.net/2025/08/19/wyss/

More information about the book can be found here: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/black-gold/hardcover

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Bob Wyss is a Seattle-based writer who is a former newspaper reporter and editor and a longtime journalism professor.  Black Gold, The Rise, Reign and Fall of American coal, is his fourth book.  He has written more than a hundred articles that focus on his specialty in covering environmental issues for such publications as The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Audubon, Yankee, and the Huffington Post.  His last book was The Man Who Built the Sierra Club, A Life of David Brower.  His reporting and editing career spanned 30 years at the Providence Journal and he spent another 15 years teaching at the University of Connecticut.  He is currently a professor emeritus.