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Let's stay on track, find solutions with coal trains | Keikkala
2013-02-01 08:30:25| Railroads - Topix.net
The Kent Chamber of Commerce has concerns regarding the application of Pacific International Terminals to develop the largest coal export facility in North America at Cherry Point in northwest Washington.
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Another utility cuts back on coal
2013-01-31 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Star Tribune: The state's most coal-dependant power company said Wednesday that it will stop burning the fuel at three of its oldest electrical generators in 2015. The announcement by Minnesota Power is the latest sign of coal's decline in the electric power industry. Seven other power generators owned by three other Minnesota utilities also are turning away from coal to avoid adding expensive controls for mercury emissions by 2016. Minnesota Power, the electric utility serving the Iron Range and central...
China's soaring coal consumption approaches the combined use of all other nations
2013-01-31 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Chinese coal consumption surged for a 12th consecutive year in 2011, with the country burning 2.3 billion tons of the carbon-emitting mineral to run power plants, industrial boilers and other equipment to support its economic and population growth. In a simple but striking chart published on its website, the U.S. Energy Information Administration plotted China's progress as the world's dominant coal-consuming country, shooting past rival economies like the United States, India and Russia as well...
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China's coal conundrum as smog worsens
2013-01-31 04:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Locals in Datong call it the coal capital of China - and it is not hard to see why. Outside the city you can see enormous mining towers and buildings scarring the landscape. At one coal pit the bulldozers are hard at work. They push huge mounds of coal close to the waiting trucks. The air is filthy, blackened by the coal dust. This is a dirty, grimy business but in China it is crucial work. Coal has fuelled the country's economic boom, with consumption tripling in little over a decade. Currently,...
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Coal blamed as China chokes on smog
2013-01-31 04:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The Chinese government has warned residents of Beijing to keep their windows closed and stay indoors as pollution blighting the city worsens. Coal consumption in the country has tripled in little more than a decade. But that has contributed to thick and hazardous smog which some in Beijing say is the worst they can remember. Martin Patience reports.
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