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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.
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…
Scientists can now measure the damage each new coal mine can do to people, nature
Scientists have long known every tonne of carbon dioxide matters to the climate. But governments keep approving new fossil fuel projects – even as climate change worsens. Until now, it's been difficult to say how much damage and extra…
Coal India's supplies to power sector rise 10.6% in September
Amid rising power demand, coal behemoth Coal India's supplies to the power sector rose 10.63 per cent year-on-year to 48.90 million tonnes (mt) in September, compared with 44.20 mt in the year-ago period. Supplies to the non-regulated sector (NRS)…
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…
Presidents rarely visit Indian Country. Trump's planned Choctaw Nation rally will be the latest
President Donald Trump is holding a campaign rally on the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma on Thursday, putting him in the company of just a handful of U.S. presidents who have visited tribal nations while in office. The rally is part of Trump's recent…
Tata Power Says India Will Meet Surging AI Electricity Demand
India is ready to cope with a coming surge in demand for electricity as the artificial-intelligence boom takes hold, thanks to the country's push to add energy storage, according to Praveer Sinha, chief executive officer of Tata Power Co. The…
China Is Facing an Energy Transition Dilemma in Pakistan
A deluge of solar panels and batteries from China has transformed Pakistan's electricity sector, bringing huge benefits for consumers. Yet, there have been losers too: the nation's already indebted energy industry, and a previous generation of…
Ramaco Resources Stock: The New Rare Earth Report Disappoints (NASDAQ:METC)
Ramaco Resources should be valued solely as a coal company, not a rare-earth play. Recent technical reports confirm METC lacks an economically viable method to extract rare earths from its coal. The latest Hatch report invalidates prior extraction…
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.
Trump the environmentalist? How his Iran war exposed the fragility of dirty energy
Of all the epithets hurled at Donald Trump since he became US president, perhaps the most unusual was delivered last week – that he is, in fact, some sort of environmentalist. Trump is the “greatest gift” to the environmental…
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