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Coal share world energy demand highest since 1970
2014-06-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Coal dominated world energy markets last year by supplying the biggest share of demand since 1970, making it the fastest growing fossil fuel, according to an annual review by BP Plc. Consumption grew 3 percent last year, driven by coal use in developing nations, according to a statement today from Europes third-largest oil company. Use of renewables such as solar and wind also reached a record, accounting for 2.7 percent of all energy demand. The findings are another indication that consumers...
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Despite low coal use, Louisiana must reduce CO2 by 40%
2014-06-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Advocate: When the Obama administration announced its new plan to cut carbon dioxide from power plants to combat climate change, Louisiana found itself on the hook for a 40 percent reduction over the next 15 years or so -- one of the bigger decreases demanded in the state-by-state goals. The size of the proposed cut surprised many because Louisiana doesn't rely heavily on coal, which generates more carbon dioxide than most other fuels. Neither state regulators nor the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
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Patriot Coal moving Charleston office to Putnam
2014-06-14 17:15:42| Energy - Topix.net
Patriot spokeswoman Janine Orf says the St. Louis-based coal company plans to make the switch in late summer or early fall.
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Oil and Coal Must Be Phased Out Entirely by 2050 to Stop Catastrophic Warming
2014-06-13 20:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Motherboard: If we really want to maintain a livable climate, and prevent global temperatures from rising more than 2° Celsius, then no nation, anywhere, can burn any oil, gas, or coal at all after 2050, according to a striking new analysis of the latest climate science. The world must start preparing for a rapid decarbonization of the energy and industry sectors within the next decade and get to zero emissions by 2050, Bill Hare, a climate scientist at Climate Analytics, told me in an interview from Bonn,...
Objects to oil, coal rail shipments
2014-06-13 17:07:19| Railroads - Topix.net
Over the past several months, Burlington Northern Santa Fe railway workers have left a roadbed repair diesel locomotive running unattended for extended periods.
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