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Logging 'Giant Sticks of Coal': Confronting the Biomass Industry
Note: The following is a modified version of an address given by Greg King in Jenner, California on June 12, 2026 During the mid-19th century, Henry David Thoreau wrote, “Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of…
WA government wants federal help with Collie's coal transition
The WA state government wants the Albanese government to release millions of dollars from the National Reconstruction Fund for Collie's transition away from coal. Workers' unions yesterday rallied at state parliament, calling for federal support to…
Women tackling coal dust and other eco wins this week
The Trump administration calls coal the 'backbone of affordable and reliable energy' and just pumped $700 million into the industry. Though it once supplied most of the power for the US, over the past decade the fossil fuel has been pushed aside by…
Indonesia's Ithaca snaps up bankrupt Queensland coal miner Vitrinite
A bankrupt Queensland coal miner that collapsed owing $400 million has been acquired by an Indonesian rival for more than $200 million. Brisbane-headquartered Vitrinite filed for administration earlier this year when a creditor, Singaporean…
Converting Coal Plants to Natural Gas
For the better part of the last several hundred years, coal was the fuel of choice for generating power. Burning coal powered Thomas Newcomen's steam engine, invented in Britain in the early 18th century, and the first of a line of increasingly…
Coal gasification crucial for India's energy security and import reduction, says minister
Coal gasification is crucial for India's long-term energy security and help the country reduce dependence on imports, Union coal and Mines Minister G Kishan Reddy said on Thursday. Speaking at a roadshow on the central government's scheme for the…
River Road Asset Management LLC Has $21.94 Million Stock Position in Warrior Met Coal $HCC
River Road Asset Management LLC reduced its holdings in Warrior Met Coal (NYSE:HCC - Free Report) by 74.3% in the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional…
Oakland First Fridays fights for its future...on our podcast
For 20 years, Oakland First Fridays has turned a stretch of Telegraph Avenue into a monthly street festival. Now organizers say a false media narrative, one that ties off-site, late-night violence to the event, has driven away sponsors and put the…
Can Hanson's war on climate change 'hoax' survive the summer?
When Pauline Hanson railed against the “hoax” of global warming at the National Press Club this week, she sent Australia's climate wars back to 2009, when then-opposition leader Tony Abbott branded climate change “absolute…
Worried About AI Data Centers' Impact on Environment? Stop Eating Beef
Artificial intelligence is fueling a boom in data centers as well as concern about their environmental footprint. Data facilities consume significant electricity and water, especially as demand for tools like generative AI grows. Altogether, U.S.
The rise of the luxury barbecue: the UK's new outdoor cooking obsession
Burned sausages, limp salads and undercooked chicken legs you live to regret; the British barbecue has historically been a sorry affair. But a slew of fancy equipment the price of a secondhand car is revolutionising the grilling game. The best UK…
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A Vietnam Veteran Collected Fossils for 66 Years. One, Mislabeled 'Baby Lamprey,' Made Paleontologists Reconsider How Vertebrates Moved From Water to Land
Richard Rock—a Vietnam War veteran, a Master Gardener and an avid fossil collector—has been picking up rocks for 66 years. His favored site is Mazon Creek, a prolific fossil bed located about 70 miles southwest of Chicago. It's…
Public power generation firms' proposed merger sparks debate
A third-party analysis proposing that the government merge Korea's five state-run power generation companies to streamline structural inefficiency is prompting debates, with civic groups arguing Friday that the merger would still fail to…
Secret Memos Reveal Stephen Miller's Disturbing Eagerness to Destroy Our Constitutional Rights
(Tomorrow the shebeen will be dark in celebration of Juneteenth. Hence this weird hybrid of our usual end-of-the-week features. As part of our celebration, and in tribute to the Commonwealth's—God save it!—own Massachusetts 54th…
Datacenters driving US clean energy growth while still threatening climate
Datacenters are driving unprecedented growth in the US clean energy industry, paradoxically boosting a sector that was sputtering before the artificial intelligence boom even as AI's rollout creates immense environmental challenges. However…
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