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Oregon To Eliminate Coal From State Energy Mix by 2030
2016-03-03 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Oregon has become the first U.S. state to eliminate the use of coal by legislative action. Lawmakers at the statehouse voted Wednesday to eliminate coal from the states energy supply by 2030, and to provide half of all customers power with renewable sources by 2040. The legislation was hammered out between the states two largest utilities and environmental groups. Clean energy groups praised the legislation as one of the strongest pieces of pro-climate legislation in the U.S. in years. In terms...
Bankruptcy Filing Shows Arch Coal Funded Climate Denial Group
2016-03-03 19:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), a group best known for filing lawsuits seeking climate scientists` personal emails, has secretly received funding from Arch Coal, one of the largest coal producers in the U.S. The funding is revealed in documents recently filed as part of the Arch Coal bankruptcy proceedings which list the coal company`s creditors. The Arch funding is revealed just months after Alpha Natural Resources, another coal company facing bankruptcy, was identified...
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Oregon Legislature passes coal transition bill; coal power out by 2035, 50% renewables by 2040
2016-03-03 11:56:11| Green Car Congress
March against coal plant threat to Bangladesh's Sundarbans forest
2016-03-02 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Thousands of Bangladeshis will march from the countrys capital, Dhaka, to the worlds biggest mangrove forest next week in protest at plans to build two coal-power plants on the edge of the World Heritage-listed forest. The organisers of the so-called long march on 10 March hope to persuade the Bangladeshi government to drop its backing for construction of the plants near the Sundarbans, an area of rice paddies, shrimp farms and vast mangrove forests. No sensible person will deny that there...
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Hearings start on proposed coal ash pit closure deadlines
2016-03-01 17:01:18| Waste Management - Topix.net
Now it's time for neighbors and people interested in Duke Energy coal ash pits around the state to have their say about how risky they are and how quickly they should be closed. The state Department of Environmental Quality starts a series of public meetings Tuesday near the 14 coal-plant sites.
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