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UK banks are Europe's biggest coal financiers, report finds
UK banks are Europe's biggest financial backers of the global coal industry, providing billions of pounds in funding for the climate-wrecking fossil fuel in the past four years, according to a report. The study found UK-based banks had provided…
China's Coal Past and Solar Present Are Colliding in Pakistan
About an hour's drive east of Karachi, Pakistan's coastal mega-city of more than 20 million people, a coal-fired power station hailed as a flagship project in China's $1.5 trillion Belt and Road Initiative is being engulfed by a sea of solar.
Glencore, Peabody are said to explore Venezuela coal deals (BTU:NYSE)
Glencore (GLCNF)(GLNCY) and Peabody Energy (BTU) are considering a joint move into Venezuela's coal industry, while another group of investors is exploring a separate deal as foreign companies take a fresh look at the country's natural…
Glencore, Peabody and Heeney Mull Coal Deals in Venezuela
Glencore Plc, Peabody Energy Corp. and Heeney Capital are weighing deals to produce coal in Venezuela as the Trump administration's push for US-allied companies to develop the nation's resources extends beyond oil. Glencore and Peabody are working…
Massive coal approval hands Bowen a COP headache
The Minns government's approval of the state's biggest ever coal mine expansion has created a major headache for Energy Minister Chris Bowen after a key Pacific leader hit out at the controversial decision ahead of next week's UN climate summit in…
Coal Buyers Resist High Prices Despite Costly Alternatives
This article is for subscribers only. Welcome to our guide to the commodities driving the global economy. Today, Indonesia-based reporter Eddie Spence looks at an impasse in the seaborne coal market. Coal markets are caught in a standoff.
Our research measures the real cost of coal mines to people and planet
The longer it takes to transition away from fossil fuels such as coal, the more costs accrue as climate change accelerates. Climate change caused at least US$2.8 trillion (£2.1 trillion) in global costs known as loss and damage between 2000…
Coal supply by CIL to power sector rises 11% in Jul-Sep
State-owned CIL on Thursday said the supply of dry fuel to the power sector users has increased by 11.01 per cent to 148.20 million tonne (MT) in the second quarter of the current financial year from 133.50 MT in the year-ago period. The supply has…
NSW's largest coal mine project is set to expand. Here's what authorities got wrong about the trade-offs
The New South Wales Independent Planning Commission has just greenlit an expansion of the largest coal mine project in the state's history. The decision to expand Yancoal and Glencore's Hunter Valley Operations coal mine, which will now operate…
Community Impact Award Finalist: Philippine Coal Plants' Scholarship Program
Just hours before his flight back to work on Aug. 24, 2026, seafarer John Cris Tropicales watched his younger brother graduate with a bachelor's degree in criminology, reported Ulysses “Chuckie” Rivera, community relations manager for…
The Oswaldtwistle pub that has built a reputation regionally for coal-fired steaks
Opened by Sean Forshaw four years ago, The Britannia Tap and Grill, in Haslingden Road, Oswaldtwistle, has built a reputation for its quality cooking, all done over coals. I'm Sean Forshaw and I am the chef director; we have had the pub for four…
NSW approves record coalmine expansion
The NSW Independent Planning Commission (IPC) has approved the biggest coalmine project ever in the state, saying the climate change impacts from the Hunter Valley project will be “outweighed” by economic benefits The Hunter Valley…
China's embrace of electric trucks shifts oil market - TT
Truck driver Qu Shaolong with his e-rig at a charging station in Yulin, Shaanxi Province. (Gilles Sabrié/Bloomberg) China's electric truck adoption accelerated in 2026 as rising diesel prices spurred strong sales growth and expanded use…
$18M North Las Vegas project aims to turn trash into fuel
One person's trash is another person's treasure — and a climate-tech startup heading to North Las Vegas is betting that trash can become a valuable replacement for coal. Forge Industries expects to begin developing its first U.S. biofuel…
This tool tells you how fossil fuel emissions actually translate into heat deaths, coral reef damage, and more
Every new fossil fuel project that comes online will add more climate-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into our atmosphere. But just reporting how many tonnes (metric tons) of CO2 a new coal or gas facility will produce can still be abstract.
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