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Appeals court upholds stricter pollution controls on Pennsylvania coal plant
2013-07-31 14:37:17| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Star-Ledger: A federal appeals court has upheld the EPA`s demands for a Pennsylvania coal power plant to reduce its sulfur dioxide emissions, which blow over the border into New Jersey. Residents of Knowlton, the tiny Warren County town just across the river from the plant, have said that the power plant has been releasing ash and soot that`s collected on their windowsills for decades. NRG Energy, which has owned and operated the Portland energy plant since last year, said today that the plant had already...
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Despite slowdown, global coal remains a planet-destroying monster
2013-07-30 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: In my last post, I referenced a new report from Goldman Sachs analysts showing that the market for seaborne thermal coal (overseas imports and exports used to fuel power plants) is likely to fall from 7 percent annual growth to around 1 percent, and stay there for the foreseeable future. This is great news, in that it has the potential to render several new large-scale coal-extraction projects around the world - including export terminals in the U.S. Pacific Northwest - unprofitable before they are...
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Obama serious about coal having a role in 'all of the above' strategy for US
2013-07-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama and the U.S. Department of Energy are committed to a role for coal in a national energy strategy, and they've backed it up with research spending, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said Monday. In a visit to the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Morgantown the only one of the federal government's 17 national labs dedicated to fossil fuels Moniz said the administration has spent $6 billion on clean-coal technology with an emphasis on the capture, storage and reuse of...
Facing tough market at home, U.S. coal giant pushes overseas
2013-07-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Gregory H. Boyce, the CEO and Chairman of Peabody Energy the worlds largest private coal company is facing his share of troubles. President Obama is planning to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from coal plants. The natural gas boom in the U.S. has cut into coals traditional dominance of the electric power sector. Public opposition has helped kill scores of proposed coal-fired power plants in the U.S., and the coal industrys plans to build terminals in the Pacific Northwest to export coal...
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India eyes British Columbias coal reserves as it ramps up steel production
2013-07-29 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vancouver Sun: India wants to buy a bigger chunk of B.C.s vast metallurgical coal reserves to feed its growing steel industry, a potential boost to the provinces No. 1 export business, worth $5.7 billion a year. A high-level delegation led by Indias Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma was in B.C. this month and met with Premier Christy Clark, International Trade Minister Teresa Wat and B.C. coal industry representatives. The Indian government forecasts that by 2017 the country will need twice as much metallurgical...
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