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Utilities cut coal use amid Clean Power Plan fight
2016-03-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Critics of the Obama administration's most sweeping climate policy hailed the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in February to temporarily block it, saying the ruling on the Clean Power Plan could breathe new life into the flagging coal industry. But even as those critics await further rulings on whether the plan is constitutional, utilities are already looking far beyond coal -- the nation's largest single source of greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change -- and pressing ahead with investments...
Thursday hearing deals with coal ash
2016-03-05 19:32:48| Waste Management - Topix.net
The state Department of Environmental Quality will hold a hearing in Lumberton on Thursday to hear from the public about coal ash remaining on the Duke Energy property of the former Weatherspoon coal generating plant and how it affects the community. "We are really hoping for a lot of people to attend the hearing," said Christine Ellis of the Winyah Rivers Foundation.
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How do we ditch dirty coal power without sending miners to unemployment line?
2016-03-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: The nation - in fact, the world - needs to wean itself from fossil fuels if it is to have any hope of managing climate change. Burning coal is particularly bad for the environment, pumping far higher quantities of global-warming compounds into the atmosphere than natural gas, oil or other carbon-based products do. So it's heartening that the U.S. has been using less coal to generate electricity in recent years. An unrelated drop in coal-fired steel production in China has also reduced the amount...
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Oregon passes bill to boost renewables, exit from coal
2016-03-04 12:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Oregon lawmakers yesterday approved a bill to raise the state's share of renewable energy to 50 percent and quit its reliance on coal-fired power. S.B. 1547, sponsored by state Sen. Lee Beyer (D), passed the state Senate 17-12 on a party line vote. It now heads to Gov. Kate Brown (D), who is expected to sign it. It passed the state House 38-20 on Tuesday. Originally put forth by the state's two largest utilities and a cadre of environmental groups, the bill would instruct the utilities -- Pacific...
Marubeni and El Sewedy to do feasibility study of Egypt coal power plant
2016-03-04 01:00:00| Power Technology
Japan-based Marubeni and Egypt's El Sewedy Electric have inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Egyptian Electricity Holding Company (EEHC) to perform a feasibility study for construction of a coal-fired power plant in the North African count
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