NewsRack: 'Coal' news in 'Energy-Independent' topic for user flenvcenter

What utilities can teach us about fighting climate change	13.12.2018	GreenBiz.com
Even a $400 billion industry can move when the money is right and the need for climate action is clear.
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Weaning ASEAN from coal reveals climate risks and rewards	13.12.2018	GreenBiz.com
Can the region reconcile rapid economic growth with decarbonization?
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As Trump administration promotes coal, business giants step up calls for bolder climate action	12.12.2018	Small Business \| GreenBiz.com
At COP24, corporates launch series of new initiatives to help mainstream clean technologies and sustainable practices.
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Will power: Developing countries are driving the renewables transition, says BNEF	30.11.2018	Energy & Climate \| Greenbiz.com
A new report shows a dramatic shift in global energy markets.
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How the military is proving that America doesn't need coal for grid security	28.11.2018	Resource Efficiency \| GreenBiz.com
Defense bases are using wind, solar and battery storage to face the threats of extreme weather or attack.
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Coal is not competitive with cheaper alternatives, and the industry's true costs are even higher	8.11.2018	Resource Efficiency \| GreenBiz.com
Power plant emissions kill tens of thousands of Americans each year, scientists estimate.
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Can energy become secure, affordable and sustainable as the sector transforms?	8.11.2018	Resource Efficiency \| GreenBiz.com
Megatrends are meeting the energy trilemma.
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Energy transitions are nothing new, but the one underway is unprecedented and urgent	1.11.2018	Energy & Climate \| Greenbiz.com
Being on the powerful side of history matters.
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The fossil fuel industry’s dirty secret: Climate action or not, things look bad	28.9.2018	Energy & Climate \| Greenbiz.com
There is no walking away from the energy transition.
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What’s in store for Indonesia’s coal market?	20.9.2018	Resource Efficiency \| GreenBiz.com
As the energy landscape shifts, so does the ground underneath the resource-rich island nation.
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Squatting trees to stop a coal mine	19.9.2018	rabble.ca - News for the rest of us
Political Action The occupation of numerous old growth trees in the Hambach Forest (Hambacher Forst) near Cologne, Germany, provides an inspiring and innovative example of grassroots resistance to the carbon-intensive, climate-killing coal industry that we can apply to struggles in this country. The open-pit lignite (a low-grade, brown coal) mine, owned by the German transnational RWE, is reported to be both the largest and most heavily polluting coal mine in Europe. Over a six-year period activists have camped in the 12,000-year-old forest to stop the expansion of the 33-square mile coal mine and protect the last 10 per cent of the forest from being destroyed. An estimated 150 to 250 activists live in 60-70 treehouses year-round. They live without running water (they collect rain water), use a compost toilet, have no electricity (other than what is generated by solar panels), and cook vegan in community kitchens in the treehouses with food collected by dumpster diving. One activist told Democracy Now! ...
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Sick of coal yet?	29.8.2018	Design & Innovation \| GreenBiz.com
The recent EPA decision doesn't just fail sustainability professionals — it will trigger a public health crisis.
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With China in the lead, new obstacles to climate progress are emerging	12.7.2018	Design & Innovation \| GreenBiz.com
It has become the de facto leader in international climate efforts. But is the world’s leading carbon emitter now pulling back?
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Grid grist and microgrid musings	8.7.2018	Design & Innovation \| GreenBiz.com
The collective we should be focusing far more attention on innovation within the transmission system.
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One year on: U.S. business is still committed to the Paris Agreement	1.6.2018	Design & Innovation \| GreenBiz.com
Trump says we're out. This is why we're still in.
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Allianz is the latest insurer to bank on carbon neutrality	8.5.2018	Resource Efficiency \| GreenBiz.com
Changing regulations and cleaner technologies are leading the divestment from coal power plants and mines.
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Canary in the Coal Pond	23.4.2018	Truthout.com
New reports provide an unprecedented look at contaminants leaking from coal ash ponds and landfills. But the chasm between information and environmental protection may deepen thanks to a proposed Trump administration rollback that would lessen the consequences and weaken requirements for polluting power plants. Coal ash slurry pours into the first of two settling ponds adjacent to the Riverbend Steam Station on Mountain Island Lake in Gaston County, North Carolina, January 23, 2008. (Photo: Jeff Willhelm / Charlotte Observer / MCT via Getty Images) In tests conducted in late 2017, one in three coal-fired power plants nationwide detected "statistically significant" amounts of contaminants, including harmful chemicals like arsenic, in the groundwater around their facilities. This information, which utility companies had to post on their websites in March, became public for the first time under an Obama-era environmental rule regulating coal ash, the waste generated from burning coal. Mixed with water and ...
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Ex-Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship Will Try for a Senate Seat in Coal Country	10.4.2018	Truthout.com
Just when you think the GOP has scraped the bottom of the barrel with political candidates -- like, say, Roy Moore – they manage to surprise us again. Democrat Joe Manchin's competitor in the race for one of West Virginia's senate seats is none other than Don Blankenship . If his name doesn't ring a bell, that might be because Blankenship has spent the last nine months in jail. He's the disgraced former CEO of Massey Energy , as in, the energy company responsible for a coal mining disaster that killed 29 people in 2010. The company had racked up over one thousand warnings about unsafe conditions prior to the incident. West Virginia is coal country, so is it really a good move for a man who became the public figurehead of a horrific mining disaster to run for US Senate? Astoundingly, on at least some campaign stops, Blankenship has found support. Massey isn't winning any Democratic hearts and even Republicans are giving him a frosty reception, but in an era of extreme partisan politics, Politico found ...
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Why natural gas makes global warming worse	9.4.2018	Small Business \| GreenBiz.com
Hint: it has to do with methane, a greenhouse gas 84 times as potent as carbon dioxide.
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In coal country, net zero energy nears cost parity	19.3.2018	Design & Innovation \| GreenBiz.com
The results of a Siemens study are electrifying: Renewables can compete — and win — anywhere.
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