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Patriot Coal seeks to cut retirees' benefits
2013-03-15 17:17:27| Energy - Topix.net
Patriot Coal Corp. has asked the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to modify collective bargaining agreements with the United Mine Workers of America, allowing the coal company to cut health care coverage for retired miners.
Burning coal may be killing over 100,000 people in India every year
2013-03-13 20:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: India's dependence on coal-fired power plants for energy may be leading directly to the deaths of 80,000 to 115,000 of its citizens every year, according to the first ever report on the health impacts of coal in the country. The report, commissioned by the Conservation Action Trust and Greenpeace-India, deals only with the direct health impact of coal and not climate change. But even ignoring the rising pain of global warming, the bleak report outlines that coal consumption in India is causing over...
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Coal dusts environmental impacts
2013-03-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KUOW: Paul Barber isnt one to let a little rain get in the way of doing his job. As the plant superintendent for one of the largest open-pit mines in the world, part of Barbers job is to see that more than 100 million tons of coal gets loaded onto trains every year and sent from the Black Thunder Mine in northeastern Wyoming to power plants around the country. Barber sits in front of a wall of computer monitors with blinking multi-colored lights. Asked what happens if it rains on an uncovered coal...
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Australia toughens environmental hurdles on coal and coal seam gas mining
2013-03-12 13:37:44| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Australia will impose tougher environmental hurdles on coal and coal seam gas mining, responding to mounting public concern about protection of fragile water resources from the impact of extraction, Environment Minister Tony Burke said on Tuesday. The government would amend national environment laws to force coal seam gas and large coal mining developments to now receive national government approval and assessment of their impact on water, Burke said. Australia has a booming coal seam gas industry...
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New Zealand: Coal appeal calls for climate change consideration
2013-03-12 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
TVNZ: Local authorities will have to consider international climate change when granting resource consents if an environment group gets its way. The West Coast Environment Network's lawyer Davey Salmon said the consequences of burning West Coast coal was relevant to whether to grant resource consents to mine coal. West Coast Regional Council and Buller District Council appointed independent commissioners who granted consents for Buller Coal to open cast mine at the Escarpment Mine on the Denniston...
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