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United Kingdom: House of Lords votes to bring old coal power stations under new regulations
2013-11-05 00:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The House of Lords has voted to kill off Britain's coal-fired power plants more quickly than expected as Labour defeated the government in a vote to amend the energy bill. Peers led by shadow energy minister Lady Worthington supported the closure of a loophole allowing some of the UK's oldest coal stations to get around applying a new emissions performance standard (EPS) to cut their carbon emissions. The government was defeated by 237 to 193, as the Lords voted to bring old coal power stations...
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Power Plants Try Burning Wood With Coal to Cut Emissions
2013-11-03 21:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Even as the Environmental Protection Agency considers requiring existing coal-fired power plants to cut their carbon dioxide output, some utilities have started to use a decidedly low-tech additive that accomplishes that goal: wood. Ranging in size from sawdust to chunks as big as soup cans, waste wood from paper mills, furniture factories and logging operations has been used with varying levels of success. Minnesota Power, which once generated almost all of its power from coal and is now trying...
World Bank Sees Ways to Slow Arctic Melt in Kitchen, Coal Mines
2013-11-03 16:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Replacing cook stoves, curbing crop fires and capturing methane when extracting fossil fuels would help slow ice melting from the Arctic to the Himalayas and decrease risks of flooding, the World Bank said. Global warming is accelerating the thawing of glaciers, snow caps and permafrost, which will in turn release carbon dioxide and methane they held into the atmosphere, the bank said. Measures to fight pollution today can hold back these changes while improving the health of millions of people,...
Australia: BHP Billiton scraps plans for new coal port at Abbot Point in Queensland
2013-11-03 02:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: BHP Billiton has scrapped plans to build a major new coal port on the Queensland coast, as a new report warns that the state's haste to expand existing ports is misguided and could result in job losses. BHP said it has pulled out as developer of terminal two at the Abbot Point port, near the Queensland town of Bowen, as well as an accompanying rail line that would have taken coal from mines to be exported. The $5bn plan, which would have transferred up to 60m tonnes of coal a year to Abbot...
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Big Coal: Government regulation sucks, but dont you dare touch our government subsidies
2013-11-01 19:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: On Tuesday, the coal industry bused a few thousand miners from coal country into Washington, D.C., for a protest in front of the Capitol against the Obama administration`s so-called "war on coal." Speakers, many of them senators and members of Congress, and attendees interviewed by reporters complained that EPA restrictions on new coal-fired power plants would cost their community jobs. The complaints also pointed to secondary effects, such as higher electricity bills and reduced economic activity...
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