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Construction Week: TVA Coal Ash Cleanup Passes Milestone; Columbia River Crossing Project Scrapped
2013-07-02 21:37:08| ENR.com: Headline News
The TVA passes a milestone in their cleanup of a massive 2008 coal ash spill, and funding falls through for $3.6-billion Columbia River crossing.
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In age of climate change, Australia's vast coal fields could become worthless
2013-07-02 18:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Guardian: Australia's huge coal industry is a speculative bubble ripe for financial implosion if the world's governments fulfill their agreement to act on climate change, according to a new report. The warning that much of the nation's coal reserves will become worthless as the world hits carbon emission limits comes after banking giant Citi also warned Australian investors that fossil fuel companies could do little to avoid the future loss of value. Australia is already the globe's biggest coal exporter...
Energy Secretary Moniz says Obama is not waging war on coal
2013-07-02 18:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Coal lovers can breathe easy (as long as they`re not downwind of a coal-fired power plant, that is). President Obama`s new energy secretary, Ernest Moniz, has dismissed conservative claims that his boss is waging a war on coal, assuring Americans that the dirtiest fossil fuel will remain a vital part of America`s energy mix in the years to come. From Reuters: Obama "expects fossil fuels, and coal specifically, to remain a significant contributor for some time," Moniz told Reuters in Vienna,...
Death of a Georgia coal plant
2013-07-02 15:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Nature Network: The smokestacks, more than 800 feet tall, barely peek from behind the tall pines just across from Chester Allen's farm, but to him the damage from Plant Yates' coal is plain to see. "Dang-near everything rusts out early over here," said Allen, as he walked with his dog, Bogey, past a rusty disc harrow on the farm where he's lived for more than thirty years. His drag, steel gates, fence posts, barn roof all rusted. Equipment this new 15 years old, he reckons shouldn't be this rusty. And...
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Coal's slipping grip: Death of a Georgia coal plant
2013-07-02 14:37:13| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: The smokestacks, more than 800 feet tall, barely peek from behind the tall pines just across from Chester Allen's farm, but to him the damage from Plant Yates' coal is plain to see. "Dang-near everything rusts out early over here," said Allen, as he walked with his dog, Bogey, past a rusty disc harrow on the farm where he's lived for more than thirty years. His drag, steel gates, fence posts, barn roof -- all rusted. Equipment this new -- 15 years old, he reckons -- shouldn't be this rusty. And...
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