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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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Protesters who blocked coal shipment set for trial
2014-08-31 15:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Two men who used an old lobster boat to block a coal shipment to New England's largest coal-burning power plant say they plan to argue at trial that their actions were necessary because of the threat posed by climate change. Environmental activists Ken Ward and Jonathan "Jay" O'Hara say they don't intend to dispute many of the facts of the case during their jury trial, which opens Sept. 8 in Fall River District Court. Instead, they want to prove that global warming is real and that bold auction...
Coal Plants Lock in 300 Billion Ton of CO2 Emissions
2014-08-28 20:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: It seems straightforward to say that when you buy a new car by taking out a loan, you're committing to spending a certain amount of your income per month on that car for a specific period of time. Of course, by buying that car, you're also committing to polluting the atmosphere with some amount of carbon dioxide. But how often do car buyers make that calculation? The same can be said for coal-fired power plants, which spew billions of tons of climate-changing CO2 into the atmosphere each year,...
TVA to Replace Coal Plant with Natural Gas Plant in Memphis
2014-08-27 20:42:00| Transmission & Distribution World
The Tennessee Valley Authority board of directors has approved replacing the Allen Fossil Plant in Memphis with a cleaner, natural gas plant that will help ensure continued low-cost and reliable electricity for the greater Memphis area and TVAs western service territory. read more
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Full extent of global coal 'binge' is hidden, say researchers
2014-08-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The climate impacts of the world's fossil-fuelled power plants are being underestimated because of poor accounting, say researchers. Governments would get a truer picture if they included the lifetime emissions of a facility in the year it goes into production These "committed emissions" have been growing by 4% a year between 2000 and 2012, the scientists say. Power plants in China and India alone account for half of this commitment. At present, UN accounting procedures only include the...
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