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Nine reasons China wont need enough coal to justify coal ports in the Pacific Northwest
2013-02-27 19:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: U.S. coal companies claim that exporting low-grade coal from the Powder River Basin through ports in the Pacific Northwest to Asia is big business, a sure thing, easily worth the pollution and disruption the new coal infrastructure it would cause. Their case to investors, local communities, and state regulators is based on a simple premise: China`s demand for coal is steady and rising. And that does seem to be the conventional wisdom. But there are reasons to think the premise is false, and that...
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Settlement binds power co. to stop burning coal
2013-02-26 02:18:49| Energy - Topix.net
One of the largest U.S. electricity producers will stop burning coal at two of its power plants and make deeper pollution cuts at more than a dozen others under a legal settlement reached with the Environmental Protection Agency, eight states and several environmental groups.
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Settlement binds power co. to stop burning coal in Ohio
2013-02-25 22:09:12| Energy - Topix.net
One of the largest U.S. electricity producers will stop burning coal at two of its power plants under a legal settlement reached with the EPA, eight states and several environmental groups.
Coal country bank first to report carbon footprint to shareholders
2013-02-21 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: There's a growing interest among enviros these days in combating climate change with direct offensives against the fossil fuel industry, sights locked on its bottom line. The idea is that while we scramble to invent more efficient light bulbs and throw up solar panels, we also chip away at the mountain of money that gives the industry its power, by turning shareholders on to the idea that unwise investments can make them accomplices in global warming. Activist investment is nothing new, of course,...
CSX says no one hurt in Md. coal train derailment
2013-02-21 05:26:49| Railroads - Topix.net
CSX Corp. says no one was hurt in a derailment of 73 cars on a coal train in western Maryland.
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