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Rio backs Yancoal over Glencore for Australia coal minesw
Jun 20, 2017 (AFP)
The world's second-largest miner said in January it was selling Coal & Allied to Yancoal Australia -- majority-controlled by China's Yanzhou Coal -- for US$2.45...
Researchers compute their way toward cleaner coal plants
Jun 12, 2017 (SPX)
A team of researchers at RWTH Aachen University's Institute of Aerodynamics (AIA) has long been interested in using computation to understand turbulence - one o...
Coal waste fuel may reduce anthropogenic emissions
Jun 12, 2017 (SPX)
As Pavel Strizhak notes, thermal power plants generate up to 40-45% of the world's electricity. Meantime, TPSs are the sources of five contaminants which accoun...
Foreign bidding war for Rio's Australia coal mines
Jun 11, 2017 (AFP)
Rio, the world's second-largest miner, is exiting coal mining in Australia at a time of falling prices and market volatility. The Anglo-Australian firm in Janua...
India's Adani to start work on mine near Great Barrier Reef
Jun 06, 2017 (AFP)
Billionaire chairman Gautam Adani said in Townsville that the board had made its "final investment decision" which marked the "official start" of the Carmichael...
From coal miner to writer of China's hit TV show
May 25, 2017 (AFP)
He became engrossed in the text, and dreamt from then on that he would devote his life to literature -- to become, as Balzac was, a "secretary transcribing hist...
Gas leak kills 18 miners in central China
May 08, 2017 (AFP)
Another 37 miners were rescued and taken to a hospital for treatment following Sunday's accident at the Jilinqiao mine in Huangfengqiao township, according to X...
India's coal plant plans conflict with climate commitments
Apr 26, 2017 (SPX)
"India is facing a dilemma of its own making," said Steve Davis, associate professor of Earth system science at the University of California Irvine and coauthor...
Coal power dropping as natural gas, renewables grow, U.S. report finds
Apr 17, 2017 (UPI)
The U.S. Energy Information Administration said in a daily brief that coal accounted for about 30 percent of all of the electricity generated in the country las...
US environmental groups file suit to block new coal mining on public lands
Mar 30, 2017 (AFP)
US environmental groups and a Native American tribe have filed a lawsuit to block the Trump administration's plans to resume leasing of federal lands for coal m...
Trump to roll back Obama clean power plan
Mar 26, 2017 (AFP)
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Tuesday to undo his predecessor Barack Obama's plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fueled power...
Adani to begin work on Australia mine by August: report
Mar 19, 2017 (AFP)
India's Adani Enterprises says work on a giant coal mine near Australia's Great Barrier Reef will begin in August despite mounting opposition to the long-delaye...
Czech energy group bucks green trend with bet on coal
Mar 19, 2017 (AFP)
Bucking a trend set by its European peers to divest from coal, the Czech energy group EPH is buying coal-fired power plants across the continent to the dismay o...
World Bank indirectly backs harmful SE Asian projects: report
Mar 17, 2017 (AFP)
World Bank investments in commercial financial institutions is indirectly allowing land-grabs, evictions and pollution in Southeast Asia, a watchdog group charg...
17 killed in China coal mine accident: state media
Mar 14, 2017 (AFP)
Seventeen Chinese coal miners were killed when a lift used to move workers fell down a shaft, state media reported, the latest deadly mishap in the country's ac...
China says coal consumption falls for third year
Feb 28, 2017 (AFP)
China's world-leading coal consumption fell for the third straight year in 2016, government data showed Tuesday, as the planet's biggest carbon emitter struggle...
China halts N. Korea coal imports after missile test
Feb 18, 2017 (AFP)
China will suspend all imports of coal from North Korea for the rest of the year, Beijing said Saturday, depriving Pyongyang of a crucial source of foreign exch...
EU must shut coal plants by 2030 to meet climate pledge: study
Feb 09, 2017 (AFP)
The European Union must close all 315 of its coal-fired power plants by 2030 in order to meet its commitments under the Paris climate agreement, a research inst...
Do more to advance CCS, BHP Billiton says
Feb 07, 2017 (UPI)
Australian energy company BHP Billiton issued a call to policymakers to do more to advance development of carbon capture technologies. The International Energy ...
Beijing's mayor vows step away from coal
Feb 06, 2017 (UPI)
The mayor of Beijing said the city would move to improve air quality across the region by taking a dramatic step away from the use of coal. China accounts for a...
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