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How Big Coal summoned Wall Street and faced a whirlwind
2016-08-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Over 40 years, West Virginias Hobet coal mine evolved from a family run upstart to a site bought and sold in a rapid corporate shuffle. The sites transformation symbolizes change in an industry once known for dangerous work, but now for corporate buyouts that have coal on the edge. ALKOL, West Virginia On the day Victor Clark retired after 26 years at the Hobet coal mine, the bosses called him to the office for a surprise. His wife, daughter, and sons Rocky and Tony, both miners, turned...
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Chinas Coal Peak Hailed as Turning Point
2016-07-31 14:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The global battle against climate change has passed a historic turning point with China's huge coal burning finally having peaked, according to senior economists. They say the moment may well be a significant milestone in the course of the Anthropocene, the current era in which human activity dominates the world's environment. China is the world's biggest polluter and more than tripled its coal burning from 2000 to 2013, emitting billions of tonnes of climate-warming carbon dioxide. But its...
The largest, dirtiest coal plant west of the Mississippi announces major closures
2016-07-13 20:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Two coal-burning units that the Sierra Club calls "the largest, dirtiest coal plant west of the Mississippi" will close by 2022, according to a settlement reached between the coal plant`s operators and environmental groups. These closures, reports the Sierra Club, will reduce carbon emissions to the tune of 5 million tons per year, the equivalent of taking 1 million cars off the road. The plant in Colstrip, Mont., has supplied energy across the state and the Pacific Northwest since the 1970s....
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In Poland, efforts to rescue coal industry will likely come up short
2016-07-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Midwest Energy News: Editors note: This is Part One of a series on climate and energy issues in Germany and Poland that could help inform policy discussions in Ohio and other parts of the United States. Kathiann M. Kowalskis recent research trip to Germany and Poland was made possible by a Transatlantic Media Fellowship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation. As it is in Ohio and elsewhere in the United States, the coal industry in Poland is declining amid economic and environmental pressures. And the industrys political...
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Republican platform declares coal is clean
2016-07-12 05:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The Republican platform committee met in Cleveland the week before the Republican National Convention to hammer out the party`s policies in a Trump era. Not to be outdone by Democrats, who approved the party`s strongest platform language yet on climate change this weekend, Republicans have gone as far as possible in the other direction - by endorsing coal as clean. After a unanimous vote on Monday, the RNC`s draft platform officially declares coal "an abundant, clean, affordable, reliable domestic...
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