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Australia bets on coal as climate policy crumbles
2014-07-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Victoria, Australia. Drought, fierce winds and 47 degree C temperatures led to the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires, which killed over 170 people and millions of animals and plants. The intensity and frequency of bushfire conditions is rising in south-eastern Australia. Michael Hall, Victoria, Australia, 2009. Photo: Michael Hall/The Climate Institute When the Senate voted on July 17 to axe the carbon tax, Australia became the first country to reverse course on pricing greenhouse gas emissions. ...
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Report: Coal trains planned for Washington state carry issues, bring jobs
2014-07-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Seattle Times: Communities throughout the Puget Sound region would need overpasses and underpasses costing $50 million to $200 million each to prevent traffic from being stopped by a proposed 18 daily coal trains, a government report says. Elected officials on the Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC) sounded the alarm Thursday about the magnitude of traffic delays, and the hazards of more trains and people crossing paths. The study, requested last year by then-Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, might be viewed as...
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Montana GOP lawmaker slams Obama for 'war on coal'
2014-07-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Rep. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) slammed President Obama for a "war on coal" in the Republican weekly address Saturday. The GOP weekly address zoned in on Obama's energy policies, primarily his signature climate regulation, days before the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launches its public hearings across the U.S. Daines, who is challenging Sen. John Walsh (D-Mont.) for his Senate seat this year, called the administration's carbon pollution rules "job killing regulations on the industries...
Coal India's plans for 20 mines hit by land, environment delays
2014-07-24 12:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Twenty new coal mine projects by state-run Coal India, planned with annual capacity of 52 million tonnes (46 million tons), have been delayed by difficulties acquiring land and environmental clearances, the coal minister said on Thursday, underlining the uphill task he faces in reforming the sector. The new government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is hastening environmental clearances - which slowed to a trickle under the previous administration - to help fire up power plants and fulfill Modi's...
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Europe stuck with coal unless UK takes action, campaigners warn
2014-07-24 12:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Coal will remain a major source of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe unless UK and EU policymakers take urgent action, campaign group Sandbag has warned today. The group's new report warns that while rising levels of renewables capacity helped push down fossil fuel generation by 4.3 per cent between 2010 and 2013, it has mainly replaced cleaner gas generation leaving the more carbon-intensive coal sector largely untouched. As a result, carbon emissions from coal power rose six per cent across...
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