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Coal miners struggle survive in industry battered by layoffs and bankruptcy
2015-07-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: There is pain across the nations coal fields, but here in West Virginia, the disruption is particularly acute. Mines are closing almost every month. Sawmills that provide wooden support beams for the tunnels are laying off workers, and diners are putting up signs asking their customers to pray for the miners. The coal industry, long the heart that pumped the economy here, is in deep trouble, buffeted by power plants switching to cheap natural gas, crippling debt, mounting foreign competition and...
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Coal company demonstrates impressive feats of climate denial
2015-07-18 01:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: [T]here are no demonstrated foreseeable effects of any GHG emissions. While these words may have composed a halfway reasonable sentence a few decades ago, flat-out denial of anthropogenic climate change is less in vogue today. Even ExxonMobil acknowledges that greenhouse gases need to be cut. But not Peabody Energy. The worlds biggest private-sector coal company is still clinging desperately to unconditional climate denial. The company`s position was demonstrated all too clearly in 71 pages...
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For Tony Abbott, it's full steam ahead on coal, 'the foundation of prosperity'
2015-07-17 14:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inside Climate News: If, as the environment movement contends, fossil fuels are the new tobacco, then Australia has cast itself as a sort of swaggering Marlboro man, puffing away contentedly as the rest of the world looks on quizzically. As other countries look to transition to low-carbon alternatives with one eye on crunch climate talks in Paris later this year, Australia is pushing ahead with an expansion in coal extraction that its conservative prime minister Tony Abbott insists is good for humanity. A series...
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New U.S. Stream Protection Rule Infuriates Big Coal
2015-07-17 08:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: New national regulations to prevent or minimize the impacts of coal mining on surface water, groundwater, fish and wildlife were proposed today by the Obama Administration. The Stream Protection Rule would safeguard about 6,500 miles of streams nationwide over a 20 year period. The proposed Stream Protection Rule would affect the ability of mountaintop removal coal mining companies to destroy or bury waterways near surface mining operations. Mountaintop removal mining has already buried more than...
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U.S. Proposes New Rules to Protect Streams From Coal Pollution
2015-07-17 01:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The Interior Department on Thursday proposed a new rule aimed at protecting streams from the high level of pollution caused by a technique known as mountaintop removal mining. The proposed rule, which updates a 1983 regulation, quickly met fierce opposition from the mining industry and some Republicans. The rule would have the greatest effect on states in the Appalachian Mountains, where the disputed mining practice is most common. Obama administration officials and environmental groups said that...
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