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China says solar power capacity surpasses coal for first time
China's installed solar energy capacity has surpassed that of coal-fired power for the first time, the national energy body said Tuesday, hailing the milestone. SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT China, the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases…
Indonesia doubles down on coal to power its aluminum expansion
Resource-rich Indonesia is expanding its production of aluminum as the Iran war disrupts supplies, relying on its abundant coal reserves to power new smelters that run contrary to efforts to curb carbon emissions that cause climate change. Prices…
Solar Power Overtakes Coal as China's Largest Source of Electricity for the First Time
China is massively expanding its solar power capacity; here is a plant in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in northern China. According to official figures, solar power plants are generating more electricity than the country's coal-fired power…
Coal India production falls 5.7% in August, coal supplies rise 5.5%
Coal India Limited's coal production declined 5.7 per cent year-on-year in August 2026, while coal supplies increased 5.5 per cent during the month, according to provisional operational data filed by the company with the stock exchanges. Coal India…
Pennsylvania pays millions to coal waste companies
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. WINDBER, Pa.—Standing on the rocky banks of Paint Creek…
Coal Got an Order. Nuclear Got a Meeting
The most consequential number in current American energy planning is one that nobody in the room where it gets made believes. I sell into data center buildouts, so I sit in that room. Someone asks how much power the site will need. No one really…
Tuesday Short Cuts
'If we're serious about a constitutional Republic, then we've also got to get serious about the idea that ICE has no place here.' —Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed 'What would Jesus say if he walked onto the floor of the U.S. Senate?
Maple Rock Capital Partners Inc. Buys 110,500 Shares of Warrior Met Coal $HCC
Maple Rock Capital Partners Inc. boosted its stake in shares of Warrior Met Coal (NYSE:HCC - Free Report) by 77.2% during the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The…
RBI data reveals strong 20% industry credit growth in July, gold loan expansion slows
The Reserve Bank of India's latest data reveals a robust 20 per cent year-on-year surge in bank credit to industry in July, driven by strong performance in engineering and other key sectors, even as gold loan growth experienced a notable…
Australia can be big winner from AI revolution - if we get it right
A lot can change in a generation. Between 1760 and 1800, a worker in the textile industry went from spinning one thread at a time to operating a mule spinning 400 simultaneously. In just 40 years, Britain's cotton output increased tenfold. Other…
Arthurdale's New Deal Experiment, and the Debate Over Socialism
ARTHURDALE, West Virginia — The road into this quiet Preston County community gives little warning that it was once the setting for one of the New Deal's most ambitious, and most debated, experiments. Ninety-three years ago, Arthurdale…
'We want them': The attempt to woo Air India to western Sydney
A meeting with Air India looms as a major test for Premier Chris Minns as his government attempts to convince the airline to run direct flights from New Delhi or Mumbai to the new airport in western Sydney. Minns will on Tuesday fly to Mumbai with…
Wendell Berry, US author, farmer and environmentalist, dies aged 92
Wendell Berry, the Kentucky-born author and agrarian whose poems, stories, novels and essays celebrated the farming communities of his native state and warned of the excesses and misjudgments of an industrial, commercialized society, has died aged…
Meet the Google Exec Trying to Convince a Skeptical Gaming Industry to Love AI
In a gold rush, the people who get rich aren't the grubby prospectors digging for those nuggets in the muck; it's the men who sell the shovels. In that vein, Google, with generative tools like Genie, Veo, and Gemini, is competing to become the…
Some of Australia's biggest companies are planning for an unbearable climate future
Even as unprecedented fires and heatwaves rage across Europe, scientists track the retreat of Antarctic sea ice and a supercharged El Niño system heads our way, Australia's largest companies are forecasting business-as-usual in a much hotter…
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