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Brown coal is the Datsun Sunny of electricity. It's time to upgrade or be overtaken
2016-01-06 01:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: 2016 is promising to be a happy new year. The remarkable achievement of 196 nations signing up to the successor of the Kyoto protocol means the first ever year with a global agreement to end the old ways of pumping heat-trapping carbon pollution into our atmosphere and oceans. Now the hard and exciting work begins. Transitioning the economy to ensure a pollution-free future throws up enormous opportunities. Commercialising new technologies, improving our productivity by wasting less energy,...
Manufacturers Group Opposes Pickens County Coal Ash Landfill
2016-01-05 21:00:00| Waste Age
Greenville Online A manufacturers group in Pickens County is opposing a proposed coal ash landfill. read more
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India's solar surge may slash coal imports
2016-01-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Dramatic cost declines in solar power tenders in India have shaken up expectations on pricing for the renewable fuel and have triggered warnings that the country's need for thermal coal imports will be much lower than some are banking on. Huge solar power contracts awarded by Indian states to global players in November and December have been priced at levels more than 20 per cent below 12 months ago and point to solar power rapidly overtaking thermal coal imports in competitiveness for power generation....
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China Clamps Down on Coal
2016-01-02 17:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: China says it will not approve any new coal mines for the next three years. The countrys National Energy Administration (NEA) says more than 1,000 existing mines will also be closed over the coming year, reducing total coal production by 70 million tons. Analysts say this is the first time Beijing has put a ban on the opening of new mines: the move has been prompted both by falling demand for coal as a result of a slowing economy and by increasing public concern about hazardous levels of pollution,...
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State releases proposed classifications for coal ash sites
2016-01-02 04:15:00| Waste Management - Topix.net
North Carolina's Department of Environmental Quality released draft proposed risk classifications Thursday for coal ash sites across the state. The preliminary list determines when coal ash sites across the state will close.
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