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On Climate Change, Landrieu Stands With Coal, Against Obama
2014-06-08 14:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Roll Call: Sen. Mary Landrieu will head to a coal-fired power plant tomorrow to emphasize her opposition to President Barack Obamas new plan to take a big whack at coal as part of his plan to cut carbon emissions and tackle climate change. The vulnerable Louisiana Democrat will head to the Big Cajun II coal-fired power plant in New Roads, La., according to a press release. Shell meet with plant workers, take a tour of the facility and hold a roundtable discussion with power industry leaders from across...
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Though Not Quietly, Kentucky Moves to Cut Reliance on Coal
2014-06-08 05:40:22| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The E. W. Brown power plant rides like an ocean liner on a rolling ridge in Kentucky, its smokestacks and plumes visible across fields of corn and cattle for miles around. The coal-fired plant has lighted homes since Dwight D. Eisenhower was in office. But under the Obama administrations plan to fight global warming, its days could be ticking down. Two of its three coal-fired generating units are among the oldest and least efficient in the state, and concerns that the plant could close are making...
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Climate policy & the future of coal: Obamas green gamble
2014-06-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economist: WITH a metallic gasp, the chute opens its metal jaws and deposits precisely 230,000 pounds of coal into the railway car. The pour is carefully calibrated to create an aerodynamically efficient heap; sealant is sprayed evenly across the coals surface to limit dust release. Fully loaded, the car moves along to be replaced by another; it takes two-and-a-half hours to load the two-mile-long train. Four trains, each carrying 15,000 tonnes of coal, leave the Spring Creek mine in Montana every day, often...
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China Coal Cap Could Strand Assets Around the World
2014-06-06 22:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Analysts believe that China--the world`s largest producer and consumer of coal, accounting for almost half of global consumption--could be close to making an abrupt and drastic change of track. A report by the Carbon Tracker Initiative and the Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia (ASrIA) says that when China`s demand for thermal coal (cheap coal burned in power stations to generate electricity) peaks, this will leave up to 40 percent of its coal-fired power generation...
Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining: Five Things You Need to Know
2014-06-05 01:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Rainforest Action Network: A few days ago, I sat down for an interview with the good folks at Living on Earth, Public Radio International`s weekly environmental news show. We talked about RAN`s work fighting mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining in Appalachia, and the banks that fund it. From that interview, here are five things you need to know: MTR destroys some of the most biodiverse ecosystems in the U.S. The first step in blowing the top off a mountain is clear cutting the forest off the top of it--some of the most...
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