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Pork Commentary: Canary in the Coal Mine?
2016-09-21 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GLOBAL - Canaries can smell poisonous gases in coal mines before humans can. Consequently, they are great safety facilitators. We don’t want to be thought of as canaries, but we sense some danger in the swine industry, writes Jim Long, President and CEO of Genesus Genetics.
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700 years of North Dakota coal vs. a climate rule
2016-09-20 12:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Cartwheeling wind turbines dot the green prairies outside North Dakota's capital, and as the state's "energy trail" snakes northward, billowing coal plants pop up in the distance. The scenery is a reminder of the challenges ahead for North Dakota, a state whose deep reserves of fossil fuels stand in contrast to federal climate regulations with requirements to decrease the release of greenhouse gases. North Dakota has one of the toughest goals in the country under U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan....
Landfills Posture for New Business as Coal Ash Ponds Face Closure
2016-09-20 01:05:14| Waste Age
The sweeping demise of these impoundments will drive a radical shift in how billions of tons of coal ash are managed.
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Despite shift away from coal, two new mines set for West Virginia
2016-09-07 10:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: As mines close and the coal industry faces a seemingly endless run of bankruptcies and other bad news, a company backed by a $90 million investment is defying conventional wisdom by preparing to open two new mines next year in Appalachia, the hardest-hit coal region. The mines in West Virginia and Virginia will create some 400 jobs in counties where unemployment ranges close to three times the national average, Ramaco Development CEO Randall Atkins told The Associated Press. "It's a fairly big...
Poland could sign climate deal amendment if EU backs new coal plants
2016-09-06 12:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Poland is willing to back EU ratification of an amendment to the Kyoto Protocol on carbon emissions if the European Commission guarantees financing for new, cleaner coal-fired power stations, the Prime Minister's office said. Last October Poland's president unexpectedly vetoed 2012's Doha amendment which extends the protocol until 2020, arguing that the country needed more time to analyze its impact on the economy. The EU needs unanimous backing from member states in order to ratify the amendment....
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