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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…
Haze from Canadian wildfires envelopes NEPA
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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…
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…
BHP Annual Copper Production Falls; Iron Ore Output Notches Record High -- Update
The Australia-based miner, the world's largest by market value, said copper production totaled 1.95 million metric tons for the year ended June 30, a 3% decrease from the prior 12-month period. Iron ore output totaled 264.7 million tons, up 1% on…
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…
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Once the World's Biggest Passenger Ship, This Metal Marvel That Crossed the Atlantic and Took Immigrants to Australia Has a New Museum Home
In the mid-19th century, the people of Bristol, England, watched a mammoth rise from their docks. Christened the S.S. Great Britain, the ship stretched nearly 330 feet long and weighed some 2,000 tons. Instead of wood, it was made of metal. And…
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…
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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