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China 'highly polluting project' decision to spur coal subsidy talks

2015-10-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: China's promise to curb public funding of "highly polluting projects" has isolated Japan and increased the pressure to close a deal to phase-out coal export subsidies after months of wrangling. The Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has been hosting talks on the issue since last year. Japan, wary of regional competition from China, has been at the vanguard of opposition to phasing out coal export credits that help OECD nations send coal plant technology abroad...

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North Carolina's CYA move on coal ash

2015-09-30 21:27:39| Waste Management - Topix.net

Back in March, the North Carolina Department of Natural Resources, now the Department of Environmental Quality, made news - and Duke Energy mad - when it fined the company $25.1 million dollars for groundwater contamination near its Sutton coal ash waste pits. Duke's response was to sue, and now the two parties have settled for what Sam Perkins, the Catawba Riverkeeper, says is a "diluted" amount.

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Under Clean Power Plan, Pennsylvania confronts its deep ties to coal

2015-09-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ClimateWire: Pennsylvania's status as a nationwide energy giant is evident in the rural outskirts of this community in the state's southwest. A nearby church is dwarfed by the towering silos of Consol Energy Inc.'s Bailey Preparation Plant. Conveyor belts for carrying coal from nearby mines weave snakelike between the hills surrounding the operation. And in nearby Ryerson Station State Park, an empty field that was once a favorite swimming spot has driven years of litigation and activism after land movement...

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Duke Energy, NC agree to $7M settlement over coal ash leaks

2015-09-29 18:31:00| Waste Management - Topix.net

The settlement cuts by more than 70 percent a record $25.1 million fine the state Department of Environmental Quality levied in March for leaks from the ash ponds at the L.V. Sutton Steam Plant near Wilmington. Duke had appealed the fine, claiming that the DEQ had violated its own policies and procedures in assessing it, and the two sides spent much of Monday behind closed doors trying to hammer out a deal before the appeal went before a state administrative law judge.

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