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India's coal rush threatens to make global warming irreversible
2014-11-26 06:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Brisbane Times: Decades of strip mining have left this town in the heart of India's coal fields a fiery moonscape, with mountains of black slag, sulfurous air and sickened residents. But rather than reclaim these hills or rethink their exploitation, the government is digging deeper in a coal rush that could push the world into irreversible climate change and make India's cities, already among the world's most polluted, even more unlivable, scientists say. "If India goes deeper and deeper into coal, we're all...
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Can China Cut Coal?
2014-11-25 15:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: On a visit to China a few years back, I asked a local official about pollution controls after enjoying my first sour, gritty taste of the country`s air. Chinas new coal-fired power plants and other industrial boilers often came equipped with expensive scrubbers to clean acid rain and smog-forming sulfur dioxide out of the hot mix of gases that went up and out the smokestack. But the scrubbers required energy to run, this official noted, and therefore were shut off except on days when dignitaries...
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Could Germany shutter coal plants in pursuit of green targets?
2014-11-25 13:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The German government is considering proposals to accelerate the phasing out of coal power in the country, after it emerged that the economy ministry is working on draft legislation that would impose new emissions limits on coal power generators. Reuters reported over the weekend that it has seen a document detailing how energy firms could be required to cut emissions by at least 22 million tonnes by 2020. The news agency said the rules would require the closure of 50 facilities that are already...
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EPA Rejects a Texas Clean-Air Plan, Orders Pollution Upgrades Some Big Coal Plants
2014-11-25 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dallas Morning News: The partial rejection of Texas regional haze plan, a federally required strategy for reducing pollution that causes hazy skies, would require 15 coal-burning generating units at eight Texas power plants to install or improve controls that limit emissions of sulfur dioxide. The plants are mostly upwind of urban North Texas, meaning their emissions often drift to the metropolitan area and further north to Oklahoma. They include Luminants Big Brown, Monticello and Martin Lake plants. Luminant...
Big four banks under pressure to rule out funding Queensland coal projects
2014-11-25 05:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australias largest banks are coming under pressure from environmental groups not to fund huge coal projects in central Queensland, amid accusations the government is encouraging financial institutions to back the new mines. The Australian Conservation Foundation has called on the big four banks ANZ, Westpac, Commonwealth Bank and NAB to rule out financial support for nine proposed mines in the coal-rich Galilee Basin region of Queensland. Financial backing for the mines, which will produce...
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