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China Coal Mining Output Falls Most in Decade After Deadly Blast
China's coal production cratered in June after a deadly mine explosion sparked widespread safety inspections across one of the country's key mining hubs. China produced 381 million tons of coal in June, a 9.7% drop from a year earlier, the biggest…
Nation's biggest public utility just doubled down on coal, gas, and nuclear
Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For the past four…
El Niño's Impact: India's Hydropower Generation Declines, Coal Reliance Rises Amid Soaring Demand
India's hydropower generation is facing significant challenges due to the El Nino effect, leading to reduced reservoir levels, increased reliance on coal, and a strained power grid amidst soaring electricity demand. India's hydropower generation…
Thermal Coal News & Thoughts
The news flow in the thermal coal markets is picking up due to renewed US fighting with Iran and hot Northern Hemisphere weather driven by El Nino. Qatar has not sent an LNG shipment through the Strait of Hormuz since one of its tankers was hit…
Brief Encounter: A Letter from a 19th Century Physician to Donald Trump
In 1817, I published a short book, An Essay on the Shaking Palsy, containing the first clear clinical description of the disease that would eventually bear my name. I hoped it would spur others to investigate this mysterious illness. My description…
Steve Forbes: Break Obama's energy shackles - and free America's future
Excerpt: Hundreds of billions of dollars are being invested by every major economy around the world in the race to dominate artificial intelligence — but none of it will matter without the energy needed to run it. Every AI breakthrough will…
NSW government approves first pumped hydro project since Snowy 2.0
NSW Planning Minister Paul Scully has approved a renewable energy project on the site of a former coal mine. The $1.8 billion project has the potential to power 120,000 homes. Mine site owner Yancoal is assessing the project's commercial viability…
Why IBM just suffered its worst stock crash of all time-and what it says about the 'dual bubble' in markets
I called Steve Hanke on the afternoon of July 14, days after he'd flagged something he called a dual bubble forming in AI markets, and one day after IBM suffered the worst single-day stock crash in its 115-year history. The “ money doctor…
New Environmental Performance Index Highlights Sustainability Gains and the Challenges Ahead
European countries continue to lead global environmental performance, with Estonia ranking first in the 2026 EPI. More than half of EPI indicators now use AI-enabled tools, including satellite data analysis to track hard-to-measure environmental…
Mocking regional accents is last form of acceptable discrimination, says MP
Jennifer McKiernan Political reporter Northumbrian MP Ian Lavery has claimed mocking people with strong regional accents is is the last form of acceptable discrimination. The Labour MP for Blyth and Ashington joined fellow MPs railing against those…
Mocking regional accents is last form of acceptable discrimination, says MP
Northumbrian MP Ian Lavery has claimed mocking people with strong regional accents is is the last form of acceptable discrimination. The Labour MP for Blyth and Ashington joined fellow MPs railing against those who look down on people because of…
After The Shock: Where Resources Go Next
Geopolitical shocks drove extreme commodity swings in Q2, but normalizing conditions are revealing meaningful mispricings across the natural resources complex. Q2 performance varied sharply by sector - oil retreated, gold tumbled, and steel surged…
Economic fundamentals unchanged despite Q2 GDP slowdown: NBS official
A view of the Lujiazui area in Shanghai Photo: VCG The fundamentals of economic operation remain unchanged, an official with the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Wednesday, responding to questions about the second-quarter growth slowdown…
U.S. moves toward renewing Jones Act shipping waiver - TT
The Ohio chemical and oil products tanker unloads cargo at the Port of Long Beach in California on May 7. (Tim Rue/Bloomberg) Trump administration officials are considering extending a Jones Act waiver that eased domestic shipping restrictions for…
A union strike is set to halt BHP's Port Hedland operations. It may not be the last
Workers at other Pilbara mining projects will be “taking note” of the strike action set to halt BHP's operations at Port Hedland on Thursday, one expert warns, as a coalition of union members prepare to down tools at a cost of up to…
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