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China has kept its promise to stop funding overseas coal, but loopholes are helping coal expand
Addressing the U.N. General Assembly in 2021, Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to stop funding overseas coal power plants in an effort to help curb climate change. Five years later, as the assembly meets this week, the world's climate…
China has kept its promise to stop funding overseas coal, but loopholes are helping coal expand
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Indonesian coal deal fuels doubts over production quota approvals
A major coal deal in Indonesia is set to secure a powerful new partner for one of the country's biggest miners, even as the industry worries a delay in the government's approval of production quotas could have a severe impact on the business…
Retired and Retiring Coal Plants Offer the Grid's Fastest Path to New Capacity
Load growth has an overlooked answer: reinvesting in the coal sites being retired. Data centers, manufacturing, and electrification are pushing load growth faster than new generation and transmission can keep up. Even as that demand delays some…
DTE to build natural gas plants, boost nuclear power, end coal use by 2032
DTE's new long-term energy plan includes cutting coal production while boosting renewable power. It will completely cut its coal power by 2032, which includes ending production at its Monroe Power Plant. It is also proposing two new natural gas…
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Filmmaker to stage casting call in Coal City for mystery thriller
An open casting call unlocks doors into the world of moviemaking Sunday through Tuesday at the Coal City Public Library. A mystery thriller will be filmed in Grundy County, led by writer-director Cody McLeod Rogers, a Coal City High School graduate…
ESG Reckoning: 22 State AGs Go After Moody's Over 'Abandoned' Climate Science
Twenty-two state attorneys general are charging that Moody's, one of the most powerful credit rating agencies in the world, has been using abandoned science and undisclosed conflicts of interest to punish energy companies and the states that depend…
Would you bet on the future of our planet?
How hot will it get in your nearest city tomorrow? How quickly will the planet's ice melt and its corals die off? How many huge, costly climate disasters will hit this year? If you're inclined to do so, you can now place online bets on how the…
Between coal and the far right
Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Earlier this week, Germany released something called a roadmap for the phase-out of fossil fuels by 2045 to much media fanfare and quotes along the lines of “It's totally…
Is solar's growth finally slowing in the US?
Normally, we try to update you quarterly on what's going on with the US electric grid since it provides a nice view of developing trends and smooths out some month-to-month randomness. Unfortunately, I was out of the office when last month's data…
Trump dismantled U.S. climate policy. But his war is cutting emissions.
President Donald Trump dismisses climate change as a hoax. He calls federal policies aimed at curbing it a wasteful “Green New Scam.” His administration has worked furiously to gut such policies and unleash unbridled consumption of…
Mining statue unveiled at former Tinsley Towers site
A statue honouring Yorkshire's mining heritage has been unveiled on the former site of Sheffield's famous Tinsley Towers. The Waiting Miner sculpture is a replica of an original work by Harry Phillips. It spent most of its life at E.ON's…
CCTV Script 25/09/26
– This is the script of CNBC's financial news report for China's CCTV on SEPTEMBER 25, 2026. When it comes to generating a single kilowatt hour of electricity, is it better to burn coal or natural gas? In recent years, Europe consistently…
A Markham Mailbox and a Spoofed Construction Firm: How a B.C. Coal Terminal Traced an Alleged $6.2 Million Fraud Into an Apparent Chinese Money Laundering Network Spanning Canada's Biggest Banks
VANCOUVER — For weeks this winter, the company that operates a coal terminal in the Port of Vancouver believed it was paying millions to the contractor building its new potash export facility. Like many elderly victims across North America…
Unions rejecting the UP-NS merger are rejecting their own members' job security
Some unions have already taken advantage of this deal, such as the National Conference of Firemen and Oilers, the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, the Boilermakers, the United Supervisors Council of America, the American Train Dispatchers…
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