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New Mexico utility endangering public health with coal mine deal
2014-11-27 23:44:56| Energy - Topix.net
All across the country, the cost of coal is going up, while the price of clean energy is coming down. Coal is in decline, due in large part to the adverse public health impacts and climate consequences of mining and burning coal.
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The new dynomak fusion reactor design could make fusion power cheaper than coal
2014-11-27 15:17:27| Extremetech
A new mathematical model could super-charge an existing fusion reactor design, allowing gigawatt fusion reactors for cost-competitive rates.
Allen finances lawsuit targeting coal leasing on federal lands
2014-11-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Seattle Times: Mercer Island billionaire and Seattle Seahawks owner Paul Allen has jumped into the battle over the future of coal leasing on federal lands. A federal lawsuit financed by the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, seeks to force the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to conduct a review of the effect of leasing coal on the global climate. "The leasing of coal from federal lands undermines President Obama's climate policy goals,' Allen wrote in a column published in The Huffington Post. "We have...
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France to stop credits for coal projects in developing countries
2014-11-27 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: France will eliminate export credits for energy projects in developing countries which involve coal, the most polluting fossil fuel, President Francois Hollande said on Thursday. The European Union is phasing out subsidies for domestic coal plants by 2018 in line with its efforts to take a global lead in the fight against climate change. But an EU policy paper seen by Reuters in June said European makers of coal-fired power plants such as France's Alstom should get financial help to export...
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Conservationists sue over federal coal program
2014-11-26 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Conservation groups sued the government Tuesday to force officials to undertake their first broad review of the federal coal-leasing program in decades and consider how burning the fuel contributes to climate change. The lawsuit from Friends of the Earth and the Western Organization of Resource Councils is being paid for by the philanthropic foundation of Microsoft founder Paul Allen. It was filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. The plaintiffs in the case said there hasn't been a...
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