April 20, 2018 South Africa’s Eskom gets workaround to tackle coal shortages The state-owned utility is seeking coal for seven of its plants that are facing shortages after supply disruptions from Gupta family-controlled mines.
April 20, 2018 HSBC pulls the plug on coal Europe’s largest bank won’t fund new coal power plants, oil sands and arctic drilling, except in Bangladesh, Indonesia and Vietnam.
April 19, 2018 Trump’s latest plan for saving coal comes from the Cold War Trump campaigned on a promise to bring back coal that is increasingly being edged out of the U.S. power market by cheap, cleaner-burning natural gas.
April 19, 2018 UK goes a record 55 hours without coal as clean power expands Coal, which fueled the world’s biggest economies for more than a century, is increasingly losing out to renewables.
April 17, 2018 Rare earths extracted from coal mining by-products Researchers at West Virginia University expect to start extracting, refining and taking to market rare earth elements in a couple of years.
April 17, 2018 South Africa’s Eskom says facing coal shortages at 7 power plants Eskom supplies around 95 percent of South Africa's electricity, predominantly by burning coal.
April 13, 2018 Senate confirms former coal lobbyist to be EPA’s number two Andrew Wheeler was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday to be EPA’s deputy administrator by a vote of 53 to 45.
April 12, 2018 Poor left out of mining profits as ‘resource curse’ hits Kenya There were cases of displacement of communities, workers subjected to unsafe conditions, as well as soil, water and air pollution.
April 12, 2018 Coal dead? Peak oil demand? Five takes on fossil fuels’ future Mining mogul Bob Murray offered a passionate defense of coal, asserting that we’d all “die in the dark” without it.
April 12, 2018 Coal mogul’s novel plan to save coal is to buy it: Gadfly Bob Murray, CEO of Murray Energy Corp., has a novel idea to save U.S. coal: buy the stuff himself.
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