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German police evict forest activists in anti-coal fight
Sep 13, 2018 (AFP)
Hundreds of police officers descended on the area in the early morning, after local authorities ordered the Hambach Forest in western Germany to be cleared imme...
Trump administration moves to relax coal pollution rules
Aug 22, 2018 (AFP)
The Environmental Protection Agency's new Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule would allow states the flexibility to set their own standards for performance at ex...
Trump to roll back Obama-era guidelines on coal
Aug 21, 2018 (UPI)
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he plans to hit the campaign trail to support state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey who is running from a U.S. Sen...
U.S. coal consumption last year at historic low
Aug 06, 2018 (UPI)
The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported in a daily brief on Friday that the nation's power sector consumed 661 million short tons of coal last year,...
German insurer Munich Re to curb coal activities
Aug 06, 2018 (AFP)
Chief executive Joachim Wenning, writing in the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper, said Munich Re will no longer invest in shares or bonds issued by companies th...
Mapping mountaintop coal mining's yearly spread in Appalachia
Jul 30, 2018 (SPX)
A new web-based mapping tool shows, in more detail than ever before, the land laid bare by mountaintop coal mining in central Appalachia each year, going back m...
Miner Yancoal seeks dual listing in Hong Kong
Jul 02, 2018 (AFP)
China-based Yancoal trades on the Australian Securities Exchange and recently expanded its holdings of local mines by buying most of Rio Tinto's domestic coal a...
Rescuers save 23 workers trapped in China mine, 11 others dead
Jun 06, 2018 (AFP)
Nine other workers were injured in Tuesday's blast at the iron ore mine owned by Huamei Group, a subsidiary of China National Coal Group Co, in Benxi, Liaoning ...
Dutch to close two oldest coal-fired plants by 2025
May 18, 2018 (AFP)
The other three remaining plants, using coal to produce electricity, will have to close down by 2030, the year the Dutch has vowed to cut carbon dioxide emissio...
U.S. wants input on coal plants of the future
May 10, 2018 (UPI)
The objective of the request is to solicit stakeholder input on ways to develop small-scale plants that would use coal, but with lower emissions. These plants o...
Two Polish miners killed, three missing after quake
May 06, 2018 (AFP)
The rescue workers managed to pull two miners up to the surface on Sunday but doctors there pronounced them dead, Daniel Ozon, the CEO of the Jastrzebie Coal Co...
Germany's Allianz to stop insuring coal businesses
May 04, 2018 (AFP)
"We want to promote the transition to a climate-friendly economy," said chief executive Oliver Baete, with the move part of a wider push to integrate the 2015 P...
U.N.: Coal still has a short-term future
Apr 25, 2018 (UPI)
Coal accounts for about 30 percent of total energy used globally and about 40 percent of total electricity generation. Among fossil fuels, natural gas is a clea...
BHP confirms exit from world coal body over climate stance
Apr 05, 2018 (AFP)
The Anglo-Australian giant announced in December it was reviewing industry group memberships to ensure they aligned with its climate and energy stance, which in...
Michigan utility company to go zero coal
Feb 20, 2018 (UPI)
Public utility company Consumers Energy, which provides gas and electricity to about 60 percent of the state population, said it would no longer be using coal a...
Australia won't fund mega Adani mine rail link
Feb 04, 2018 (AFP)
The development of the controversial US$16 billion Carmichael mine near the Great Barrier Reef is set to be one of the world's largest. But it has been delayed ...
New York unveils plans for fossil fuel divestment
Jan 10, 2018 (AFP)
While other cities in Europe and the United States have already taken similar steps, New York hailed its move as significant as it is the biggest metropolis in ...
French energy company EDF to replace coal in China
Jan 09, 2018 (UPI)
A subsidiary of the French company two years ago took an 80 percent stake in UPC Asia Wind Manage, which runs wind power plants in the second-largest economy. I...
Poland opens Europe's largest coal-fired power unit
Dec 19, 2017 (AFP)
Enea opened a 1,075 MW capacity unit built by Japan's Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems at its Kozienice plant to join a dozen other units in the 250-300 MW rang...
BHP to exit global coal body over climate change policy
Dec 19, 2017 (AFP)
The Anglo-Australian giant has been reviewing its industry group memberships to see if their stances align with its view that climate change must be tackled thr...
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