Tag: coal
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Southeast Coal Exports: A Climate Shell Game?
SOUTHERN ALLIANCE FOR CLEAN ENERGY — We must recognize that in increasing exportation of our domestic coal, the U.S. is actually just exporting its carbon footprint along with its coal. Instead of …
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China Consumes Nearly as Much Coal as the Rest of the World Combined
ECOWATCH — robust coal demand growth in China is the result of a more than 200 percent increase in Chinese electric generation since 2000, fueled primarily by coal. China’s coal demand growth averaged …
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Groups Initiate Federal Court Battle to Stop Illegal Coal Pollution
WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE — Despite all this additional compelling evidence of ongoing contamination from the coal fired power plant in Asheville, government regulators still did very little to stop the pollution. Having pursued all other options the groups finally decided they had to …
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Coal Exports Would Lock in Catastrophic Climate Change
GREENPEACE AUSTRALIA — A new global study has named Australia’s export coal proposals as the world’s second largest fossil fuel expansion, threatening to lock in worst-case projections of global warming …
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Warren Buffett, Coal and Renewable Energy
SIERRA CLUB — Today, the Sierra Club and Warren Buffett’s MidAmerican Energy Company announced a landmark settlement that requires the Iowa utility to phase out coal burning at seven coal-fired boilers, clean up another two coal-fired boilers and build a large solar …