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Oakland council bans coal
2016-06-28 14:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MercuryNews: OAKLAND -- During a raucous four-hour meeting Monday night, the Oakland City Council voted unanimously to ban the storage and handling of coal and petroleum coke in the city. Councilmember Desley Brooks was absent from the meeting. Hundreds of people filled the council chambers, spilling into overflow rooms, and offered several hours of commentary frequently punctuated by cheers, applause and outbursts from audience members on both sides of the issue. Following the vote, audience members burst...
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Oakland Votes to Ban Coal Shipments, Could End Export Plans
2016-06-28 14:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inside Climate News: Officials in Oakland, California, effectively ended proposals to open a new coal export terminal by voting to ban the transport and storage of the fossil fuel within city limits. The Oakland City Council announced its 7-0 decision on Monday as hundreds of anti-coal protestors descended on City Hall. The vote, which must be reconfirmed before it's made official, came after Mayor Libby Schaaf and council member Dan Kalb argued that a coal export terminal would pollute the area, according to the...
Oakland council bans coal shipments
2016-06-28 00:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Oakland city officials unanimously voted to ban the shipment of coal, sidelining a plan to transport Utah coal to Asia through a proposed marine terminal on an old army base. The proposed terminal is in West Oakland, a historically black neighborhood that's among the poorest and most polluted in the region. Detractors highlight the environmental dangers of bringing millions of tons of coal through the area while supporters tout the economic benefits of good-paying union jobs. The terminal...
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Abandoned Coal Mines Emit As Much CO2 as a Small Power Plant
2016-06-27 18:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Thousands of abandoned coal mines dot the U.S. landscape, vestiges of old fossil fuel boomtowns and industrial hubs. But despite no longer producing coal, these sites are still contributing to climate change by leaking carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to a recent study by scientists at West Virginia University. The total amount of CO2 released annually by 140 abandoned sites in Pennsylvania is equal to that of a small coal-fired power plant, says the study, published in Environmental...
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There go the coal plants: Philippines energy at a crossroad
2016-06-23 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Renew Economy: "Crash in Ph Mining stocks this morning. There go the coal plants too. Cant look." These were the words tweeted by Manny Pangilinan, the CEO of the Philippines biggest utility Meralco, which heavily invests in coal plants. Pangilinan is one of the top business tycoons in the country and his tweet was in reaction to incoming President Rodrigo Dutertes announcement that environmentalist Gina Lopez had been offered the position of secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources...
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