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Council requests financial aid to reinvigorate coal industry | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
WASHINGTON -- A coal council that advises the Trump administration urged the U.S. Department of Energy on Tuesday to provide financial support including loan guarantees and grants to help existing coal plants and get new ones built. President…
Higher planning hurdles needed for coal mines and data centres: watchdog
NSW has fallen further behind its legislated emissions targets and will not catch up unless approvals of coal mines and data centres are curbed while the renewables rollout is accelerated, the independent watchdog has warned. Every major decision…
'Toxic gas' kills two 'illegal miners' in abandoned Assam coal field
Hours after suspected methane gas killed at least 15 workers inside an NHPC hydropower project tunnel in Sikkim, a father-and-son duo died after inhaling toxic fumes in an alleged illegal coal mine in eastern Assam's Tinsukia district. A rights…
IEA: Global power demand is surging - and renewables are passing coal
Global electricity use is growing again, but renewables are expected to overtake coal as the world's largest source of electricity this year, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). The IEA's latest Electricity Mid-Year Update forecasts…
India creates ₹40,000 crore corpus for coal mine closure
Coal Minister G Kishan Reddy said on Wednesday that the government has created a corpus of around Rs 40,000 crore for scientific mine closures. The dedicated corpus of over $5 billion that has been created for scientific and progressive mine…
A 2,250-megawatt coal plant on 1,786 acres near Lake Powell burned up to 25,000 tons of coal a day for 45 years, and the billions of gallons it no longer pulls from the river every year is now doing something nobody put in the shutdown plan
For 45 years, three concrete smokestacks dominated the skyline above Page, Arizona, visible for miles across the Navajo Nation's red-rock plateau. They belonged to one of the largest coal-fired power plants ever built in the American West, and…
Daily on Energy: The White House is set to expand ratepayer protection pledge
NextEra Energy, Duke Energy, Equinix, and Digital Realty are among the new signatures to be added to the White House's pledge, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. At the signing event, President Donald Trump will be joined by Energy Secretary…
After Hiccup In 2026, LNG Market Will Rebound But Unsure Through 2050
The LNG Tanker FSRU Toscana arrives at the French port of Marseille. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The LNG revolution should continue, despite the setback due to the Strait of Hormuz blockades. The setback in 2026 should be temporary…
Coal, Steel, Beer and Football: Notes from Dortmund
If I said the word “Dortmund” to you, what would spring to mind? For me, it would probably be: football, beer, steel and coal. In that order. Until this week, however, I had no mental image of Dortmund's cityscape in my mind at all.
China's power grid no longer keeping up with green energy capacity: study
China is building more wind and solar capacity than the rest of the world combined, but transmission bottlenecks risk prolonging its reliance on coal, according to a report published on Tuesday by Global Energy Monitor (GEM). More than 500…
Indonesia shouldn't bet its nickel future on China's EVs alone
Indonesia is building a battery industry and an EV ecosystem as part of its broader nickel downstreaming agenda. The objective is that downstreaming should not stop at smelters. It must move deeper into industrial components, machinery, batteries…
U.S. Power Sector Emissions Spiked 4% in 2025
Current conditions: After forming into Tropical Storm Bertha late Monday, the system is barreling toward the Florida Panhandle as it makes landfall as far west as Texas • In the Pacific, Hurricane Fausto has strength as it heads toward…
Husic says Labor 'allergic to dissent' as he breaks ranks on key government positions at party conference
Outspoken Labor MP Ed Husic claims the party has become “allergic” to dissent and dispute, warning the unity on show at its tightly controlled national conference could backfire. The former industry minister broke ranks with the…
Wallace Chan's Monumental Vessels Of Other Worlds Arrives In Shanghai
Wallace Chan standing inside the Vessels of Other Worlds 30-foot Growth sculpture Picture the sweeping scale of Gustav Mahler's Third Symphony, with its meditation on the cycle of life, combined with the cosmic ambition of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
NorthPoint Development breaks ground on next phase of Hazleton Logistics project
HAZLETON — NorthPoint Development broke ground Wednesday on the next phase of Hazleton Logistics 141, an industrial park along Arthur Gardner Highway in Hazleton City. NorthPoint officials, along with city and county leaders, came together…
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