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After coal, W.Va. push for natural gas trust fund
2013-09-14 09:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: For decades, coal from West Virginia's vast deposits was mined, loaded on rail cars and hauled off without leaving behind a lasting trust fund financed by the state's best-known commodity. Big coal's days are waning, but now a new bonanza in the natural gas fields has state leaders working to ensure history doesn't repeat itself. West Virginia's Senate president, Jeff Kessler, is pushing to create an oil and natural gas trust fund to support core government functions decades from now. His goal:...
U.S. Coal Companies Scale Back Export Goals
2013-09-14 05:35:27| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The ailing American coal industry, which has pinned its hopes on exports to counter a declining market at home, is scaling back its ambitions as demand from abroad starts to ebb as well. Just south of here, New Elk Coal terminated its lease late last month at the Port of Corpus Christi, where it had hoped to export coal to Brazil, Europe and Asia. Two days later, when the federal government tried to auction off a two-square-mile tract of land in Wyomings Powder River basin, a region once poised...
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Switch from Coal to Gas Poses Some Risks for Utilities, Says Study
2013-09-13 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: The unprecedented boom in natural gas production from places like Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio should make those densely populated regions self-sufficient in gas production by 2020, which in turn could encourage more electric utility fuel switching, according to two top energy sector analysts with Navigant Research. But utilities will still face a difficult set of questions when charting the future of power generation, including whether to invest billions of dollars in environmental controls...
China sets national coal use target tackle air pollution
2013-09-12 04:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China will aim to cut total coal consumption to below 65 percent of total primary energy use by 2017 as part of a comprehensive new plan to tackle air pollution, the government said on Thursday. China will also stop approving new thermal power plants in key industrial areas such as the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in the north and the Yangtze and Pearl River delta regions in the east and southeast. In a notice posted on its official website (www.gov.cn), the Chinese government said it would...
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Patriot Coal to idle southern W.Va. mine complex
2013-09-12 03:49:18| Energy - Topix.net
Patriot Coal Corp. says it plans to idle a mine complex in southern West Virginia that employs about 250 workers.
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