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EPA Loopholes Allow Biomass to Emit More Toxic Air Pollutants Than Coal, Study Says
2014-04-09 18:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: A new study charges that government regulations for biomass plants are riddled with loopholes that allow wood-burning facilities to spew more toxic emissions in the air than coal-fired power plants. The findings are refueling a controversy over whether biomass should be treated by regulators as a renewable energy fuel and able to qualify for green incentives, or be treated as a fossil fuel like coal. The study, conducted by the Massachusetts-based Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI), found that...
Australia: Maules Creek coal mine divides local families and communities
2014-04-09 09:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The tiny chopper quivered in the wind. It hovered at 300 metres and 75-year-old Uncle Neville Sampson, a Gomeroi elder, surveyed the Leard state forest below. Lush box gum woodland, the land that Sampsons ancestors have walked for thousands of years, stood proud. But eventually, as the chopper zipped along, the terrain gave way to the mine construction. For Uncle Neville it was both breathtaking and heartbreaking in equal measure. The Maules Creek mine, Australias largest coal mine under construction,...
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Southern Co. Refuels Coal Fleet With Gas
2014-04-08 22:57:24| ENR.com: Headline News
The utilitys new Kemper plant will burn coal, but it is retrofitting six other existing coal-burners to accept natural gas.
Worlds Largest Coal Company Agrees Stop Depleting Chinese Communitys Water Supply
2014-04-08 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Last year, Greenpeace decided to do something we had never done before during our 13 years of work in China: Target and confront a state-owned coal company. And not just any company. The biggest and boldest, a Chinese government favorite: Shenhua--the largest coal company by volume on the planet. We discovered that Shenhuas subsidiary had been over-using water for their coal facility in Inner Mongolia, one of the most arid areas of China and confronted them with the evidence. First we faced...
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NC Sides With Duke in Appeal of Coal Ash Ruling
2014-04-08 21:10:30| Energy - Topix.net
North Carolina regulators are joining with Duke Energy in appealing a judge's ruling on cleaning up groundwater pollution leeching from the company's coal ash dumps.
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