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India says Paris climate deal won't affect plans double coal output
2015-12-14 14:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: India still plans to double coal output by 2020 and rely on the resource for decades afterwards, a senior official said on Monday, days after rich and poor countries agreed in Paris to curb carbon emissions blamed for global warming. India, the world's third-largest carbon emitter, is dependant on coal for about two-thirds of its energy needs and has pledged to mine more of the fuel to power its resource-hungry economy while also promising to increase clean energy generation. "The environment is...
CSX Expected to Announce Realignment due to Coal Revenue Drop
2015-12-14 09:02:22| Steel - Topix.net
As employees of AK Steel in Ashland brace for impending layoffs to arrive during the last two weeks of the year, reports are coming in that CSX is planning to realign the Hunt ington district. According to The Akron Railroad Club https://akronrrclub.wordpress.com/2015/12/08/csx-expected-to-re-align-huntington-division/ : "CSX may announce that it plans to realign its Huntington Division in the wake of falling coal traffic, Trains magazine reported .
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What is the future of coal power production?
2015-12-12 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: Is Paris the beginning of the end for coal? Coal burning is declining fast in both of the world's two largest carbon dioxide emitters, China and the the United States, with resulting declines in the emissions of both countries. The fuel looks incompatible with a world that warms by no more than two degrees Celsius, bringing calls for its rapid phaseout as the world is "decarbonized." But, with or without a deal here in Paris later this week, will the calls be heeded? Has the demise of King Coal...
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Canada: The Coal Bust
2015-12-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: Tanis Graham is having trouble sleeping. At night, the shop owner in the small town of Hanna worries about the downturn in the oil and gas industry and how she's going to afford the Alberta government's plan to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour. And in the past few weeks, Ms. Graham, 43, has been kept awake by news that the nearby coal-fired generating station will be closed a decade earlier than scheduled due to the province's new climate-change strategy. About 110 people from the...
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Burlington Northern Coal Advantages
2015-12-11 14:42:00| Railroads - Topix.net
The decline in coal is hurting some U.S. railroads more than others. More than 90% of the coal moved by Burlington Northern is from the Powder Rim Basin [PRB].
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