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Greenpeace activists prevent coal ship from entering Port of Helsinki
2015-11-03 01:00:00| Ship Technology
Greenpeace activists have attempted to block Alppila, a bulk carrier transporting coal to Hanasaari coal power plant in central, from entering Port of Helsinki, Finland.
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Senators urge Obama administration to include carbon costs in coal program
2015-11-02 13:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Democratic U.S. senators on Monday urged the Obama administration to reform the federal coal mine program to include costs of the fuel's carbon emissions and potentially raise royalties paid by companies that mine the fuel on public lands. Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington, the top Democrat on the senate energy panel, and seven other senators asked Interior Secretary Sally Jewell in a letter to use the agency's existing powers to develop a plan on federal coal mining. The federal leasing...
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Coalition asks miners and coal seam gas firms to respect farmers' 'moral rights'
2015-11-01 06:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Coalition government is asking miners and coal seam gas companies to recognise that the moral right of farmers to determine what happens on their land overrides companies legal right to explore or mine. There is a pathway forward where the producers recognise the right of farmers to control who comes onto their land, the environment minister, Greg Hunt, told the ABCs Insiders program on Sunday. Its a moral right, its not, at this moment, because of the constitution, a legal right....
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Colombia must reduce its dependence on coal exports
2015-10-29 17:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Countries around the world will meet in Paris at the end of this year to negotiate a global agreement on climate change. For the first time in the history of these negotiations, all countries are expected to present a contribution where they outline their domestic plans for reducing emissions. Colombia presented its contribution to the Paris agreement on 7 September, where it committed to reduce its emissions by 20% based on a business-as-usual scenario by the year 2030. Although Colombias...
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China Confronts Hardship of Weaning Off Coal
2015-10-29 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: China, the worlds biggest user of coal, is suddenly burning less of it, a change with enormous implications for the state of the atmosphere and the potential course of global climate change. The shift has been both abrupt and unexpected, bringing fresh credibility to Chinas pledge to rein in its greenhouse gas emissions, now also the highest level in the world. Blamed in the West for the failure of the last global climate change talks, in Copenhagen in 2009, China is setting itself up to play...
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