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Clinton's coal aid plan leaves critics cold
2015-11-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: Hillary Clinton's proposal for $30 billion in aid for people suffering from the decline of the coal industry drew a mixed-to-hostile response Thursday from critics of President Barack Obama's environmental policies - raising doubts about whether she can arrest the Democratic Party's electoral slide in coal country. The package her campaign outlined includes billions of dollars to shore up coal workers' pension benefits and retrain out-of-work miners or power plant employees to find jobs in other...
Are major economies putting the squeeze on coal?
2015-11-13 11:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Coal is the single biggest threat to a stable future climate. Cheap and dirty, it is the go-to fuel for countries keen to industrialise. Cheap, that is, if you dont count the health costs of toxic air pollution or public spending on railways to transport the stuff. Major economies are primed for a triple assault on the coal gravy train in the coming week. There is an OECD bid to phase out coal export credits, a broader G20 push against fossil fuel subsidies and a climate risk disclosure drive....
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Hillary Clinton Proposes $30 Billion Plan Help Coal Communities
2015-11-12 17:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: As the last pillar of her energy and climate agenda, Clinton's plan, provided to HuffPost by a campaign official, focuses on safeguarding coal miners' health and retirement benefits, and shifting local economies away from coal production rather than injecting more money into the ailing industry. Coal has struggled to keep pace with the natural gas boom and increasingly affordable renewable energy sources. Latest estimates have put renewable energy on pace to surpass coal as the largest source...
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Wesfarmers chief Richard Goyder says Australian coal should help the world cut emissions
2015-11-12 15:01:06| Agriculture - Topix.net
Wesfarmers managing director Richard Goyder said the Perth-based conglomerate's resources business would be "difficult for the foreseeable future" but it remained committed to its coal assets. Speaking after the company's annual meeting in Perth, Mr Goyder stressed Australian coal should be viewed as helping combat climate change in a world where emerging Asian economies continued to grow.
As coal use fades, renewables take center stage
2015-11-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: As 2016 approaches, renewable energy is steadily emerging as a major player in the energy market. Meanwhile, coal is seeing a drastic fall in use around the world. Renewables represent the worlds second largest electricity source, according to the International Energy Agency. By 2030, the agency says, it very well might replace the most polluting fossil fuel coal. Greenpeace confirmed this trend in a report Monday that found that global use of coal fell by 2.3 percent from 2014 to 2015....
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