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grist.org - Kate Yoder - Why the government is trying to make coal cute
Why the government is trying to make coal cute
Grist - Climate and environmental news

Can a lump of coal ever be … cute? It's a question no one was thinking about until last Thursday, when Interior Secretary Doug Burgum posted a cartoon of himself on X kneeling next to “Coalie” — a combustible lump with…

washingtonexaminer.com - Callie Patteson - Daily on Energy, presented by Americans for Fusion: Wright says coal saved lives, Alaska drilling timeline, and Gallego speaks
Daily on Energy, presented by Americans for Fusion: Wright says coal saved lives, Alaska drilling timeline, and Gallego speaks
Washington Examiner

Meanwhile, we're getting a clearer timeline from the Department of the Interior on plans to open more oil and gas drilling in Alaska 🛢️⛰️. Continue reading to see what the timing looks like. Welcome to Daily on Energy…

grist.org - Anila Yoganathan - A Nebraska utility says that its coal plant poses no 'significant' health threat
A Nebraska utility says that its coal plant poses no 'significant' health threat
Grist - Climate and environmental news

This story is made possible through a partnership between Flatwater Free Press and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. On paper, the public power district serving much of eastern Nebraska has been trying to quit coal at its North…

seekingalpha.com - Sander Heio - Warrior Met Coal: Assessing Blue Creek's Impact On HCC's Costs And Cash Flow (NYSE:HCC)
Warrior Met Coal: Assessing Blue Creek's Impact On HCC's Costs And Cash Flow (NYSE:HCC)
Seeking Alpha

Blue Creek's longwall started 8 months early, lifting 2025 guidance and marking a key inflection from heavy capex toward higher volumes and improving free cash flow. HCC delivered record Q3 sales volumes as Blue Creek ramped, while management…

denverpost.com - Noelle Phillips - Colorado AG, environmental groups challenge order to keep Craig coal plant open
Colorado AG, environmental groups challenge order to keep Craig coal plant open
The Denver Post

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser and a coalition of six environmental groups on Wednesday challenged the U.S. Department of Energy to reconsider its emergency order that would keep open a broken…

france24.com - Czechs wind up black coal mining in green energy switch
Czechs wind up black coal mining in green energy switch
FRANCE 24

Like other European countries, the Czech Republic -- an EU member of 10.9 million -- is divesting from fossil fuels including black coal, used in heating plants or steelworks, to reduce emissions in line with EU targets. Black coal mining has a…

taipeitimes.com - 台北時報 - Activists urge faster exit from coal-fired electricity
Activists urge faster exit from coal-fired electricity
Taipei Times

The Executive Yuan yesterday said emissions from coal-fired power plants have decreased by 77 percent over the past decade, in response to clean air activists' demands for a more ambitious coal retirement scheme. Activists yesterday gathered in…

bloomberg.com - Mark Gongloff - Meet 'Coalie,' the Lethal Mascot for Dirty Energy
Meet 'Coalie,' the Lethal Mascot for Dirty Energy
Bloomberg

To the extent American children have a relationship with coal, it's usually a negative one. Every kid knows the worst thing you can get on Christmas morning is a lump of the bituminous stuff as harsh payback for a year spent behaving poorly. Which…

thehindubusinessline.com - Government notifies coking coal as Critical & Strategic Mineral
Government notifies coking coal as Critical & Strategic Mineral
BusinessLine

The government said on Thursday that it has notified Coking Coal as a Critical and Strategic Mineral under the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 (MMDR Act). The move is part of the ongoing structural reforms in the mining…

adamtooze.substack.com - Adam Tooze - Top Links 997 AI in the bond market. How the UK ended coal. Pasolini on Gramsci and Trotsky on Europe.
Top Links 997 AI in the bond market. How the UK ended coal. Pasolini on Gramsci and Trotsky on Europe.
Chartbook

Thank you for your support of Chartbook. Your generosity keeps this show on the road. Firmin Baes, Lady in Gold (Can't find the date, but makes me think of 1920s club style). How Big Tech is bringing AI risk to the bond market.

forbes.com - Scott Montgomery - Understanding The New Energy Era: Global Trends, Risks And Certainties
Understanding The New Energy Era: Global Trends, Risks And Certainties
Forbes

Lower Manhattan, New York City. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) Most experts would agree that the energy sector is currently weathering a storm of aggressively competing claims. Indeed, this can sound like a diplomatic understatement. A key…

thehill.com - Rachel Frazin - EPA proposes to limit states' 'Good Neighbor' obligations to reduce interstate smog pollution
EPA proposes to limit states' 'Good Neighbor' obligations to reduce interstate smog pollution
The Hill

The Trump administration is moving to limit obligations on certain upwind states to cut smog pollution from their power plants that can flow to downwind states. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday proposed “phase 1”…

washingtonexaminer.com - Maydeen Merino - Much of grid risks failure in years ahead as fossil fuels phase out, regulator warns
Much of grid risks failure in years ahead as fossil fuels phase out, regulator warns
Washington Examiner

More “fossil-fired generator retirements loom in the next five years, reducing the amount of generation that has fuel on site and impacting the system's ability to respond to spikes in demand,” the report said. “The continuing…

nytimes.com - Cara Buckley - Why a New Mexico Developer Quit Natural Gas
Why a New Mexico Developer Quit Natural Gas
The New York Times

Storm Bear Williams couldn't cook with gas at his new home even if he wanted to. And he emphatically does not. Last fall, Mr. Williams bought a new four-bedroom home in Metro Verde, a 2,200-acre development in Las Cruces, N.M., in the Chihuahuan…

asiatimes.com - Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat - Indonesia's Batang Toru crackdown puts China on green notice
Indonesia's Batang Toru crackdown puts China on green notice
Asia Times

The revocation of permits for dozens of companies operating in Indonesia's fragile forests—most notably the China-backed Batang Toru hydropower project—has been hailed as a bold environmental stand by President Prabowo Subianto. After…

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