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China Coal Mining Output Falls Most in Decade After Deadly Blast
China's coal production cratered in June after a deadly mine explosion sparked widespread safety inspections across one of the country's key mining hubs. China produced 381 million tons of coal in June, a 9.7% drop from a year earlier, the biggest…
Nation's biggest public utility just doubled down on coal, gas, and nuclear
Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For the past four…
El Niño's Impact: India's Hydropower Generation Declines, Coal Reliance Rises Amid Soaring Demand
India's hydropower generation is facing significant challenges due to the El Nino effect, leading to reduced reservoir levels, increased reliance on coal, and a strained power grid amidst soaring electricity demand. India's hydropower generation…
Midterms trend-hold your nose and vote Democrat
Democrats ' support among voters who dislike both major parties is surging ahead of this year's midterm elections, according to a new poll released on Tuesday, less than four months from Election Day. Historically, the party in the White House…
Thermal Coal News & Thoughts
The news flow in the thermal coal markets is picking up due to renewed US fighting with Iran and hot Northern Hemisphere weather driven by El Nino. Qatar has not sent an LNG shipment through the Strait of Hormuz since one of its tankers was hit…
Why middle America isn't on your timeline
Long before it was a haven for swimming, fishing, kayaking, camping, and sunbathing, this very dirt belonged to the Keystone Coal and Coke Company. In 1909, the company dammed the convergence of McCune and Davis runs, creating this 78-acre lake for…
Trump rollbacks hit $83 billion in solar and wind power projects
President Donald Trump's rollback of clean energy policies have resulted in nearly $83 billion in canceled or delayed investment for projects across the country, according to a new analysis from an environmental group. The labor and environmental…
Brief Encounter: A Letter from a 19th Century Physician to Donald Trump
In 1817, I published a short book, An Essay on the Shaking Palsy, containing the first clear clinical description of the disease that would eventually bear my name. I hoped it would spur others to investigate this mysterious illness. My description…
Steve Forbes: Break Obama's energy shackles - and free America's future
Excerpt: Hundreds of billions of dollars are being invested by every major economy around the world in the race to dominate artificial intelligence — but none of it will matter without the energy needed to run it. Every AI breakthrough will…
NSW government approves first pumped hydro project since Snowy 2.0
NSW Planning Minister Paul Scully has approved a renewable energy project on the site of a former coal mine. The $1.8 billion project has the potential to power 120,000 homes. Mine site owner Yancoal is assessing the project's commercial viability…
After The Shock: Where Resources Go Next
Geopolitical shocks drove extreme commodity swings in Q2, but normalizing conditions are revealing meaningful mispricings across the natural resources complex. Q2 performance varied sharply by sector - oil retreated, gold tumbled, and steel surged…
Batteries charge ahead as data centres fuel gas turbine costs: CSIRO
Australia's top science agency has found batteries are now cheaper at supplying peak demand for power than gas. The CSIRO's annual GenCost report notes insatiable demand for gas-fired power from US data centres is driving up turbine costs. At the…
Economic fundamentals unchanged despite Q2 GDP slowdown: NBS official
A view of the Lujiazui area in Shanghai Photo: VCG The fundamentals of economic operation remain unchanged, an official with the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Wednesday, responding to questions about the second-quarter growth slowdown…
Trump clean energy policies linked to US$83 billion in delayed or canceled projects
Trump administration policies that scaled back federal support for clean energy have led to the cancellation or delay of US$83 billion (HK$647.4 billion) in investment across hundreds of projects, according to a report released on Tuesday by labor…
Singareni Bharosa Yatra concludes
Calling for unity to safeguard the Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL), Union Minister for Coal and Mines G. Kishan Reddy has pledged the Centre's continued support to the public sector coal company and vowed to stand by its workers in…
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