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Environmental advocates ask Sask. Court of Appeal to review coal decision
A non-profit environmental group had its concerns regarding the Saskatchewan government's decision to extend coal-fired power plants heard by the province's highest court Tuesday. The Saskatchewan Environmental Society (SES) is asking the court to…
Belarus Releases 25 Prisoners After Lukashenko's Latest Talks With US Envoy Coale
US special envoy John Coale announced that 25 people were released from Belarusian prisons in exchange for the lifting of US sanctions on two Belarusian companies following talks with the country's longtime authoritarian leader, Aleksandr…
US carbon rules for coal and gas power plants go up in smoke
The US Environmental Protection Agency has repealed most of the Biden administration's carbon-emissions standards for coal and gas-fired power plants. In what many will see as a dark day for the environment, the Trump administration has dismantled…
Coal Ministry to launch 16th round of commercial mine auctions on Thursday
The Coal Ministry will launch the 16th Round of commercial mine auctions on Thursday with the Minister of State Satish Chandra Dubey scheduled to launch the event. Over the past six years, across 15 completed rounds, 147 coal mines have been…
Feds Nix Carbon Emissions Standards for Coal- and Gas-Fired Power Plants
The final rule revokes the 2024 carbon pollution standards for power plants established during the Biden administration. EPA says that removing the 2024 standards will save $310 billion in utility compliance costs, and rescinding all carbon…
With EPA's latest move, Trump topples the last pillar of Biden's climate legacy
Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Coal is by far the dirtiest of the world's major energy sources. It accounts for almost half of the cumulative global carbon…
AI panic is the new climate hysteria - and it's handing the future to China
The predictable result is rash, ineffective, and counterproductive reactions, even if the underlying concerns are valid. This happens in part because crisis sells, and attention-seeking media and pundits pounce. Definitive-sounding…
Trump EPA's arguments for letting power plants spew unlimited pollution 'dead wrong'
In allowing US power plants to emit any amount of planet-heating pollution they wish to, the Trump administration made two striking claims – that this will cut Americans' electricity bills and that the pollution itself doesn't really matter…
AI in the Rust Belt: Pennsylvania hub rises in the age of data center anxiety
We were all working-class kids. Our fathers were firefighters, cops, steelworkers, and mechanical engineers. When Burrows took us there, he told us we could be anyone who worked there: a welder, electrician, engineer, chemist, plumber, or…
Belarus frees 25 more prisoners in return for easing of U.S. sanctions
Belarus has agreed to free 25 prisoners in return for a further easing of U.S. sanctions, an envoy for President Donald Trump said on Wednesday. The deal was part of lengthy negotiations in which Washington is urging Belarusian President Alexander…
Belarus frees 25 prisoners in exchange for US lifting some sanctions
Belarusian authorities have agreed to release 25 prisoners following a deal that sees the United States remove sanctions against two Belarusian firms, according to Washington's special envoy. John Coale, President Donald Trump's special envoy for…
Victoria's power on the line as data centres boom
The road into the Golden Plains Wind Farm is like any other surrounding the tiny Rokewood township in Victoria's south-west — until you reach the turbines. More than 200 stretch towards the clouds across 16,000 hectares of farmland, like a…
Belarus frees 25 political prisoners in return for US sanctions relief
Belarus on Wednesday freed 25 political prisoners as the United States lifted sanctions on two of the reclusive country's companies, US envoy John Coale announced after his latest visit to Minsk. The release on Wednesday marked the culmination of a…
Look beneath the bonnet and it's no bed for roses for Nissan's Sunderland plant
Visit Sunderland Museum and there you'll see - next to Wallace the stuffed lion - a white Nissan Bluebird. Not just any Bluebird, the very first Nissan car to roll off the production line at the Japanese firm's Sunderland factory in 1986. The car…
Iowa researchers warn of future costs, energy demand caused by data centers
Updated: 8:13 AM CDT Sep 16, 2026 Editorial Standards ⓘ Iowa researchers warn of future costs, energy demand caused by data centers Updated: 8:13 AM CDT Sep 16, 2026 Editorial Standards ⓘ DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa researchers say…
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