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Coalgate: India urges supreme court not to close coal mines
2014-09-01 16:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Indian government has urged the countrys supreme court to allow 46 illegally granted coal licenses to continue to operate. The court is considering what action to take in the Coalgate corruption scandal. Last week, it found that every coal mining license the government allocated between 1993 and 2009, 218 in all, had been granted in an illegal and arbitrary manner and the government committee that oversaw the process was a regulatory vacuum in which cronyism thrived. Indias attorney...
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Chinese illegal coal mines threaten Yellow River water supply
2014-08-08 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: An investigation by Greenpeace has found two Chinese coal mines are breaching environmental protection laws and nature reserve regulations. The organisation says the mining operations are destroying alpine meadows on the foothills of Chinas Qinghai mountains and are a potential threat to the countrys second longest waterway. In a report released on Thursday by Greenpeace East Asia, undercover campaigners found coalfields 14 times larger than London in the Qinghai-Tibet plateau. The mines are...
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1,100 layoffs planned at Alpha coal mines in West Virginia
2014-08-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: One of the nations largest coal producers said Thursday it expects to lay off 1,100 workers at 11 southern West Virginia surface coal mines by mid-October, citing dismal markets and federal regulation. The announcement by Alpha Natural Resources dealt another blow to Appalachias iconic, but dwindling, fossil fuel industry. The company said 2015 industry forecasts show Central Appalachian coal production will be less than half of its 2009 output. Its due to a combination of familiar factors,...
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UPDATE 1-JFE sees 4 pct profit rise in current year, books loss on coal mines
2014-07-30 18:28:07| Steel - Topix.net
JFE Holdings Inc, Japan's No.2 steelmaker, forecast a 3.6 percent rise in recurring profit for the fiscal year through March on higher margins, though it booked a loss on the sale of a stake in its Australian coal mines, hit by coal prices at near five-year lows.
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A canary for coal mines
2014-07-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
High Country News: Late last month, a federal judge in Colorado stopped a coal-mining lease expansion from going forward, claiming that the agencies involved had not worked hard enough to account for climate impacts, either in the mines operations or in the amount of emissions that could come from the burning of the coal. The decision came just after the Environmental Protection Agency issued a new set of regulations for emissions from power plants, and, though it may be appealed, it could set new precedents in...
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