Tag: Coal
Miners’ strike: Coal towns falling further behind – charity
"This includes our £1.1bn Long-Term Plan for Towns so local people are empowered to steer their town's regeneration over the next 10 years. Through th [...]
Greens erupt as oil, gas and coal ‘phaseout’ is dropped from proposed COP28 climate deal
Meanwhile, as ministers and their staff gathered in the plenary at the Expo City campus on the outskirts of Dubai, protesters stood outside chanting: [...]
West Virginia bets on hydrogen in gamble to save coal plant
West Virginia leaders eager to save Pleasants Power Station, a top buyer of the state’s coal, include Republican Gov. Jim Justice and Democratic Sena [...]
Ministers to block plans to ban new coal mines
Measures to allow community projects to sell electricity directly to local homes are also set to be dropped.
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At G7 Summit, Leaders Wrangle on Coal, Natural Gas and Climate
In theory, the world’s largest industrialized democracies have agreed to stop using fossil fuels within a little over a quarter-century and to switch [...]
Coal mine: Legal action mooted over Ffos-y-Fran ongoing opencast mining
Coal digging at the UK's largest opencast mine, near Merthyr Tydfil, was due to stop last September.
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Whitehaven coal mine legal challenge rejected
Environmental campaigners lose their bid to have government backing for the Whitehaven mine quashed.
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Fears Whitehaven Harbour orange water linked to coal mine work
Radiation Free Lakeland is against plans for a new deep mine, which were approved in December.
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China’s Global Times: “Chinese companies resume Australian coal imports”
China's state tabloid the Global Times:Chinese steel companies have recently started resuming coal imports from Australia, as part of efforts to diver [...]
UK’s approval of new coal mine criticized as ‘deeply damaging mistake’
This image, taken in March 2021, shows the site where the new facility would be developed.Christopher Furlong | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesLONDON [...]
Whitehaven: West Cumbria coal mine opponents consider legal challenge
Climate campaigners say they will fight plans for the UK's first new deep coal mine in 30 years.
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First UK coal mine in decades approved
Climate experts and some Tory MPs argued the mine would undermine UK efforts to lower emissions.
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White House Clarifies Biden’s Coal Remarks After Outrage From Manchin
President Biden drew backlash from Senator Joe Manchin III, a fellow Democrat, for saying that an energy transition would mean shutting down coal plan [...]
Is Credit Suisse a Canary in the Financial Industry Coal Mine?
Really seeing the deeper limits of high finance, though, requires attention to the relationship between speculation and crisis. Entities like Suisse a [...]
We’ll have to burn additional coal in the short term, CFO of RWE says
An excavator photographed at a lignite mine operated by RWE on April 8, 2022. RWE says it wants to be carbon neutral by 2040.Alex Kraus | Bloomberg | [...]