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Coal mining protest in British Columbia set to erupt
2013-09-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: An increasingly tense standoff between a B.C. First Nation and a London, Ont.-based coal company in a remote mountain valley known as Sacred Headwaters is set to erupt as protesters flaunt their month-long presence on a drilling site and taunt the RCMP to arrest them. For the Tahltan First Nation, which has worked both with and against industry, the stakes are high: It is determined to halt the development of an open-pit coal mine in a spot it views as the land of origin, the birthplace of all...
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Obama copies California greenhouse rules, takes on coal with first-ever carbon limits
2013-09-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mercury News: Linking global warming to public health, disease and extreme weather, the Obama administration pressed ahead Friday with tough requirements to limit carbon pollution from new power plants, despite protests from industry and from Republicans that it would mean a dim future for coal. The proposal, which sets the first national limits on heat-trapping pollution from future power plants, would help reshape where Americans get electricity, moving from a coal-dependent past into a future fired by cleaner...
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Pollution rule hurts coal, helps other sources
2013-09-21 01:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Tough new limits on the amount of heat-trapping emissions new power plants can emit will likely accelerate a shift away from coal-fired power and toward electricity generated with natural gas, wind, and sunshine. Power prices for homes, businesses and factories may eventually rise, and nuclear power could return to fashion. The rule proposed by the Obama administration Friday will have little effect on the mix of power sources and electricity prices anytime soon because it only applies to new power...
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Southern cautions on Kemper coal unit as EPA carbon model
2013-09-20 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Southern Co power utility, which is building one of the world's first advanced coal-fired plants that also captures carbon dioxide emissions, cautioned federal regulators that, because of location, its $5 billion project should not be used as a standard for future coal plants. The 582-megawatt Mississippi plant's proximity to oil fields, where the CO2 can be injected, cannot be easily replicated in other parts of the country, the company said. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday...
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Is this the beginning of the end for coal?
2013-09-20 22:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: From a failed coal auction in Wyoming to slowing demand in China, times are tough for the world`s dirtiest fossil fuel. And that`s before we even get to EPA`s new proposed power-plant rules. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management held an auction Thursday for the right to mine 167 million tons of coal from the 1,254-acre Hay Creek II coal tract in Campbell County, Wyo. The highest bid of $35 million, by Kiewit Mining Properties, was so low that the bureau rejected it. From Bloomberg: The companys...
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