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Big Coal undercuts landmark US overseas investment policy
2014-01-15 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Environmentalists and some lawmakers are decrying a surprise move by conservative members of Congress to roll back landmark "clean energy" policies guiding U.S. investments in overseas power projects. Two federal agencies have new guidance in place largely barring government investment in power-generation projects that fail to adequately cut carbon emissions. The rules, by the Export-Import Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), which facilitate U.S. private investments into...
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U.S. carbon emissions from fossil fuels rose in 2013 as coal use ticked up
2014-01-15 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: When all the data is in, it looks like carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels will have gone up 2 percent in 2013 from the previous year, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) said on Monday. The main reason, it said, is an uptick in the use of coal for electric power. But it's also a sign of growing economic activity in general. Ever since the deep recession began in 2008, U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide had been going down. CO2 is the principal greenhouse gas that's causing...
Job Fair To Help Coal Miners
2014-01-15 07:49:56| Agriculture - Topix.net
A coal mine in Macoupin County closed in late December in the wake of what company officials say are poor market conditions.
Facility in W. Va. Coal Chemical Spill Flew Under Regulatory Radar
2014-01-14 09:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The facility whose chemical spill contaminated the water supply for 300,000 West Virginia residents was barely scrutinized, flying largely under the radar of government regulators who viewed it as a low-risk operation but in reality, a problem at a key holding wall went undetected and unreported at Freedom Industries Inc. The chemicals stored at Freedom's facility near the Elk River are not considered hazardous enough by regulators to prompt routine inspections. On a normal day, it never created...
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Coal Places Australia Second in Carbon Emissions
2014-01-13 15:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australia is pumping out more carbon emissions to achieve its economic growth than almost any other major economy, while a quarter of its mammal species are threatened with extinction, according to a major new environmental audit. A report by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) found Australia was second only to Estonia among 34 advanced nations in terms of greenhouse gas emission intensity per unit of gross domestic product (GDP). This measure ranks the ability of...
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