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As Coal Industry Fades, Some Lawsuits Aimed at Accountability Die, Too
Read the top story of the day in your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Prospect newsletter here. This piece was co-published with The Daily Yonder in collaboration with the Investigative Reporting Lab at Yale. It was the early morning of July 28, 2022…
Miners turn off the tap for coal decarbonisation fund
The future of the coal industry's decarbonisation fund is in doubt after its mining company members refused to make contributions for the year ahead, and top executives have departed without being replaced. Coal miners have pumped hundreds of…
Türkiye Promotes COP31 Electricity Goal as Coal Leads Its Power Mix
Coal supplied about one-third of Türkiye's electricity in 2025 as the country opened COP31 in Antalya on Monday, promoting a worldwide shift toward greater use of electricity. The Turkish COP31 presidency wants electricity to account for 35%…
Keep coal firing and start up nuclear to power data centres
Federal parliament will make a series of important decisions over the coming months that will help define national standards for large artificial intelligence data centres. Australia is competing for some of the largest capital investments ever…
The Watch: Coal-Fired Power Plants Often Located in Disadvantaged Communities
A weekly roundup of public health news People living near U.S. coal-fired power plants are more likely to be in disadvantaged communities, potentially adding to the health risks they already face, a new study finds. Nearly a third of the nearly 2.8…
Which countries and industries emit the most greenhouse gases?
World leaders and delegates are gathering in Antalya, Turkiye, for COP31, the annual climate summit of the United Nations, which runs from November 9 to 20. They meet as global emissions continue to climb. The world emitted 54.1 billion tonnes of…
COP31 summit targets major electrification push as 1.5C goal slips away
The COP31 climate summit, being jointly hosted by Türkiye and Australia, has conceded that the Earth will warm by more than 1.5 degrees. Nations will push for greater electrification of energy and for less reliance on fossil fuels. But both…
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Australia's export emissions under scrutiny ahead of climate talks
Seven days after a glacier collapse caused devastating floods in Nepal, the United Nations gave a troubling update on global warming. Surface temperatures were on track to exceed the 1.5-degree Celsius increase that scientists had long warned…
El Niño pushes world towards record heat as COP31 opens
Sigit Prasetya/NurPhoto/Getty Images The world is on course for its hottest year on record as the planet is hit with warming from climate change and El Niño, scientists have told BBC News. The warning comes as world leaders and negotiators…
TMK smashes Mongolian gas record as 30-year licence beckons
TMK Energy has notched up a double win at its wholly-owned Gurvantes XXXV coal seam gas project in Mongolia, smashing another monthly production record and securing regulatory acceptance of its declaration of (gas) discovery, putting it firmly on…
China's a green-tech superpower, but not yet a green civilization
At the UN climate conference in Antalya, which runs from November 9 to 20, China is the world's clean-technology superpower. It makes most of the planet's solar panels, batteries and electric vehicles. Its emissions have stopped rising. Few…
Turkiye pushes electrification top of climate agenda as COP31 set to open
The United Nations climate conference COP31 is set to open on Monday in Antalya, Turkiye, against the backdrop of the US-led war on Iran, which has underscored the world's attachment to fossil fuels. Turkiye has said it would centre electrification…
China's factory-gate inflation gains momentum in October, consumer price pressures stay muted
China's producer inflation accelerated to its fastest pace in nearly 4-1/2 years while consumer inflation cooled in October, data showed on Monday, reflecting persistent cost pressures from higher oil prices despite weak domestic demand. SCROLL TO…
The Dollar's Power Never Came From Oil
The war in Iran and the disruption of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz have renewed an old debate about the foundations of American global power. Oil has been central to the geopolitical order dominated by the United States since World War II.
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