Earthjustice and its South African partners shut down a proposed 600 MW coal power plant in the Mpumalanga province, sending a message to the country's ...
Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Hiroshi Kajiyama said in early July that the government will work out a program to phase out inefficient coal-burni.
Japan released a new policy on overseas coal-powered projects after facing criticism for the government's promotion of new Japanese-supported coal plants ...
Climate activists demanding an end to coal power occupied two German coal-fired powered stations over the weekend, news website n-tv reports. Around 20 ...
South Korea has been castigated by environmentalists and international investors for failing to follow Japan in slashing funding for coal power overseas.
Climate protestors have gathered outside Samsung's flagship UK store on Oxford Street this morning (21 August), calling on the firm to halt plans to help build a ...
As Xcel Energy and other U.S. electricity producers strive to reach 100% carbon-free power goals by midcentury, nuclear power is critical to their plans.
PUEBLO — Shortly after Comanche 3 began producing electricity in 2010, a sign greeted visitors in the bowels of the coal-burning plant in Pueblo: “The monster ...
Featured image: A thermal power plant in India. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Vikramdeep Sidhu CC BY SA 2.0. Addition of carbon capture and storage (CCS) ...
The use of coal is one of the biggest contributors to climate change, yet many Asian countries, including Malaysia, keep building coal-fired power plants.
The grid links are needed to connect renewable energy zones, as well as large-scale batteries, pumped hydro projects and gas-fired plants to replace c..
SIOUX CITY -- MidAmerican Energy Company's coal-fired power plants south of Sioux City have lost $27.5 million over the last five years, the Sierra Club said in ...
NextEra Energy subsidiary Florida Power & Light Co. has reached an agreement to close 848-MW Unit 4 at the 3,440-MW Scherer coal plant in Juliette, Ga.
A coal-fired power plant in western New Mexico will be shutting down by the end of the year, and local officials are bracing for the economic consequences of.
OIL & GAS: The gas industry has successfully lobbied for legislation in Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana and other states that prohibits cities from barring new ...
In an age of global warming, coal consumption is dropping and renewable energy is rising. Nowhere is that trend – and the tension caused by the shift – more ...
CAPE TOWN, Aug 22 (Reuters) - South Africa has issued a request for proposals to procure 2,000 megawatts of emergency power, a step needed to help plug a ...
SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN. Associated Press. Standing amid an array of solar panels, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham told a national audience this ...
Climate activists demanding the closure of a new coal-fired power station have staged multiple protests, in Berlin and Finland. Finnish-run Datteln 4, near ...
Since Friday, rolling blackouts — the first non-wildfire ones in 19 years — have sporadically struck parts of California, particularly the Bay Area. The state's power ...
AZTEC — A pair of consumer and environmental advocacy groups are challenging the constitutionality of portions of the Energy Transition Act while also ...
ST. LOUIS — Scientists here are criticizing a proposal by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency declaring that the Labadie Energy Center — the biggest ...
Last year, there were 38 days when US utilities got more electricity from hydroelectric, wind and solar generation than from coal, according to the Institute for ...
Imagine being young and healthy, moving into a new city in anticipation of beginning an exciting new chapter in your life — only to spend months cycling in and ...
As many as 22 new coal plants—one of the dirtiest power sources—will arise at 17 sites across Japan, just as the world must slash emissions to fight warming.
US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal proposes converting the American power grid entirely to renewable energy within just 10 years. California ...
The parties will vote in the Senate against controversial grant to Shine Energy, but are likely to be outnumbered. Solar panels and chimneys at Collinsvill.
OIL & GAS: Seattle's gas supplier helped orchestrate a sophisticated “wall of opposition” to a city council plan to ban future gas hookups in new buildings — part ...
EIA. Monthly U.S. energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell to 307 million metric tons (MMmt) in April 2020, the lowest value in the U.S. Energy ...
German utility RWE wants compensation from the government for phasing out coal power generation to be paid out as quickly as possible, it said on Friday.
Air Pollution Control System for Coal-Fired Power Plants Market analysis is provided for the Global market including development trends by regions, competitive ...
Powerful stakeholders in China are lobbying for targets that would allow hundreds of new coal-fired power stations to be built into its next five-year-plan.
Shadow energy minister says state has 'plenty of power' and party is not proposing any government investment in new coal-fired power. Chimneys and solar ...
Some St. Louis-area environmental watchdogs are criticizing the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency's proposal to declare that Missouri's largest coal-fired ...
KARACHI -- As tensions grow between China and Australia, the superpower's main coal supplier, work is being stepped up in Pakistan's largest coalfield on a ...
U.S. coal stockpiles have increased to 152 million tons as coal-fired generation has fallen to a 42-year low, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) ...
It's easy to want to save the world. It feels good, like a warm blanket to wrap around ourselves. But the hard work of actually saving the environment requires us.
STONY BROOK, NY, August 21, 2020 - China is the world's largest producer and consumer of coal. A team of international scientists led by Stony Brook ...
CLIMATE POLITICS-Since the turn of the new century, every aspect of climate change has gone ballistic, up, up, and away, not looking back, leaving the 20th ...
BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Green Climate Fund has promised developing nations it will ramp up efforts to help them tackle climate ...
Gov. J.B. Pritzker's office laid out its energy goals Thursday in a clear effort to distance the administration and clean energy negotiations from scandal-ridden ...
CHINA IS HOME to half the world's coal-fired power stations, the most polluting type of generator. Their share of the country's electricity market is shrinking as ...
Concerns about air pollution and over-investment had prompted China to suspend construction of hundreds of plants in 2016, but many have since restarted.
South Africa's Eskom has suspended planned power cuts, after returning to *service* overnight three generating units at coal-fired power stations, the state utility ...
What is expected to be the last new coal plant to come online in Germany entered commercial operation on May 30, more than a decade after it was first.
The last three weeks have brought troubling news about ice. Canada's last fully intact ice shelf has broken apart. Tourists in Italy have been evacuated as huge ...
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China must end the construction of all new coal-fired power plants in order to meet long-term climate goals in the most economically ...
The stock price of Tesla, U.S. electric vehicle company, surpassed 2,000 dollars on the New York Stock Market on Thursday (local time). It means the stock price ...
Anthony Albanese will be forced to either back or block a 3.3m grant supporting a feasibility study into a new clean coal-fired power station in central ...
With the 2020 election heating up, coal community groups want residents of Appalachia to be part of the conversation as the energy transition accelerates.
The president and his administration exercise substantial influence on the environment through regulation and executive authority. President Donald Trump took ...
Global coal power plant development declined for the fourth year running in 2019, while a total of 13 gigawatts (GW) of capacity construction has been delayed ...
UTILITIES: The move to create a publicly owned utility for Maine was delayed by COVID-19, but its prime legislative sponsor says momentum will return when a ...
Two giants, Peabody Energy and Arch Resources, want to join forces in Wyoming. Is this the beginning of a dangerous concentration of power, or a dying ...
NTPC in its submission to the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) stated that it will require additional capital expenditure - Rs 0.78 to 0.86 crore ...
Today, the Union of Concerned Scientists released a new report on ways to better value the benefits of energy efficiency. Our report, Energy and Emissions ...
(Reuters) - U.S. coal-fired power plants shut down at the second-fastest pace on record in 2019, despite President Donald Trump's efforts to prop up the industry, ...
Coal-fired power plants are retreating from the market in at least two big ways. One is hard to miss: Many plants are closing. The other is more subtle: Remaining ...
China has nearly 250 gigawatts (GW) of coal-fired power now under development, more than the entire coal power capacity of the United States, a new study ...
China grapples with overcapacity by slowing coal plant construction while more U.S. plants have closed during the first three years of the Trump administration ...
China approved nearly 10 gigawatts of new coal-fired power generation projects in the first quarter, roughly equal to the amount approved for all of last year, ...
Just beyond the windows of Satsuki Kanno's apartment overlooking Tokyo Bay, a behemoth from a bygone era will soon rise: a coal-burning power plant, part of ...
Inner Mongolia, China (CNN) On the coal-rich plains of Inner Mongolia, thick white smoke curls from the huge chimney of a thermal coal power plant which the ...
HEFTING a lump of coal at their Rockhampton press conference yesterday, Central Queensland LNP politicians called on Federal Labor to back their plan for a ...
A new study found a 55 percent reduction in lung-irritating pollutants and 400 fewer hospital admissions after one coal plant closed and others added scrubbers.
U.S. coal power generation capacity has sunk nearly 30% over the past decade or so. The industry will remain pressured by a variety of factors, but coal power ...
SHANGHAI, Aug. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The first charter plane arranged by Shanghai Electric and Air China took off from Shanghai's Pudong International ...
The Allen S. King Generating Plant on the banks of the St. Croix River near Bayport will be idled half the year as a means to save money and reduce carbon ...
Platte River Power Authority will shut down the coal-burning unit at its Rawhide power plant in 2030, 16 years ahead of schedule, to try to make good on ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will introduce measures to accelerate the closure of old, inefficient coal power plants by 2030, the country's industry minister, Hiroshi ...
Good morning, good afternoon and good evening. I would like to begin today's briefing with an update on the Ebola outbreak in the Equateur province of the ...
BARKER, N.Y. — It is the last coal-fired power plant in New York State. White steam trails from its smokestack like a banner flying in the wind, visible for miles ...
A small but enthusiastic crowd turned out Saturday in downtown Akron to call for the repeal of House Bill 6 and the resignation of FirstEnergy Corp. President ...
