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Obama administration aims to protect streams from coal mining
2015-07-16 21:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The U.S. Interior Department on Thursday proposed a rule to strengthen protections of streams and rivers from coal mining operations, a move the beleaguered industry decried as the latest Obama administration attempt to squeeze it. The proposal would update 32-year-old mining rules by requiring coal companies to test and monitor streams located in the areas they mine before and after operations to ensure that operators can detect problems faster. It would also require coal companies to restore...
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Gap between federal climate policy, coal leasing
2015-07-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Southern Utah is national park country -- five parks spread across scenic red rock canyons and picturesque mesas. It's also the scene of the Obama administration's ongoing coal leasing program, which allows mining companies to produce coal on federally-owned public land. At a time when climate scientists are warning with increasing urgency that many fossil fuel resources must be left in the ground, the federal government is leasing publicly-owned land and minerals for coal mining at an increasing...
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DOE selects 7 gasification projects for funding; focus on reducing cost of coal conversion
2015-07-15 11:55:35| Green Car Congress
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Gas Spikes, Coal Slips
2015-07-14 23:06:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Major Shift in Power Sector Fuels Natural gas is now officially more important than coal when it comes to electric power generation. The shift, several years in the making, is a profound shift in a number of respects. It is the end result of a massive increase in U.S. natural gas supplies as a result of new shale gas tapping technologies. read more
Ameren Settles Lawsuits Blocking Coal Ash Landfill in Missouri
2015-07-13 22:14:00| Waste Age
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Ameren Missouri, Franklin County and the Labadie Environmental Organization announced Thursday they have settled several lawsuits challenging a proposed coal ash landfill. read more
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