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Coal Face
Best friends and Gippslanders Josie and Steph try to unpack what life after coal could look like in Australia...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/coal-face/

"Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time"
#Energy #Renewables #FossilFuels

Renewable energy outpaces coal for electricity generation in historic first, report says (Alana Wise/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/09/nx-s1-5564746/renewable-energy-coal-electricity-first
http://www.memeorandum.com/251009/p58#a251009p58

Big news for the energy transition!
And a nice little 'told you so' moment for yours truly :)
In the first half of this year, renewables produced more electricity globally than coal, for the first time.
And 2025 is the date I predicted for this to happen, back in 2016, in a blog post for Ecofys! The score was 23%-40% at the time, with most of the renewables share still coming from hydro, and the prediction was less than obvious.

"Pediatric asthma ER visits dropped 40 percent after a coal processing plant near Pittsburgh closed down, researchers found."
Kids in Pennsylvania Are Breathing (Much) Easier After a Coal Plant Shuttered https://insideclimatenews.org/news/050

Kids in Pennsylvania Are Breathing (Much) Easier After a Coal Plant Shuttered - Inside Climate News
Pediatric asthma ER visits dropped 40 percent after a coal processing plant near Pittsburgh closed down, researchers found.

The government’s biggest coal sales in more than a decade, is coming in a few days,
offering 600 million tons from publicly owned reserves next to strip mines in Montana and Wyoming.
The sales are a signature piece of Trump’s ambitions for companies to dig more coal from federal lands and burn it for electricity.
Yet most power plants served by those mines plan to quit burning coal altogether within 10 years, an Associated Press data analysis shows.
Three other mines po…

Trump wants to mine more coal from public lands as appetite for it lags
U.S. officials in coming days are set to hold the government’s biggest coal sales in more than a decade. About 600 million tons of the fuel will be auctioned from publicly owned reserves next to strip mines in Montana and Wyoming. Data analyzed by The Associated Press shows most of the power plants served by those mines plan to quit burning coal altogether within 10 years. The sales are a signature piece of President Donald Trump’s ambitions to dig and burn more coal from federal lands. The…

Why would the trumpies want to put a reactor on the moon?
Wouldn't it be more in keeping with the maga-mind's "big beautiful clean coal" message to build a coal powered power plant on the moon?
That would really show the Russians and Chinese who is boss of the moon!

Trump has moved to boost production of fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas and coal.
This lawsuit is the latest legal action against the administration
amid its assault on clean energy policy and related funding and programs across the country.
The lawsuit filed in Rhode Island by the Rhode Island AFL-CIO labor organization and others
— including the public interest law center Rhode Island Center for Justice and the nonprofit Solar United Neighbors
— detailed …

How Ordos, a coal-rich northern Chinese city, has become a testing ground for self-driving trucks after turning into a ghost town due to 2012's coal price crash (Kinling Lo/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/china-ordos-ghost-city-autonomous-vehicles/

China’s most infamous ghost town is now training ground for driverless trucks
The empty boulevards that once symbolized the mainland’s property bust now serve as testing grounds for hundreds of autonomous vehicles.

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time
> The world generated almost a third more solar power in the first half of the year compared with the same period in 2024, meeting 83% of the global increase in electricity demand. Wind power grew by just over 7%, allowing renewables to displace fossil fuels for the first time.
> China and India were largely responsible for the surge in renewables, according to the Ember report, in contrast with the US and Eur…

"Greenwashing at #Elsevier: A political ecology of corporate publishing"
https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7482

"Queensland’s biggest coal-fired power station could close six years early"
#Australia #Queensland #FossilFuels

From Bill McKibben
Yesterday was one of those days when you can feel the world shifting. The thinktank Ember reported that for the first half of 2025 renewable energy produced more electricity than coal. More to the point, solar and wind grew so fast that they covered all the growth in demand for electricity so far this year, with room to spare.

So now Trump also actively supports the faster destruction of our planet. It will also worsen living conditions in the US. #coal #trump #climate

Trump Officials Offer $625 Million to Rescue Coal
The new effort, which includes opening 13.1 million acres of federal land for mining and eliminating pollution limits, aims to save an industry that has been declining for decades.

Trump has moved to boost production of fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas and coal.
This lawsuit is the latest legal action against the administration
amid its assault on clean energy policy and related funding and programs across the country.
The lawsuit filed in Rhode Island by the Rhode Island AFL-CIO labor organization and others
— including the public interest law center Rhode Island Center for Justice and the nonprofit Solar United Neighbors
— detailed …

Groups sue EPA over canceled $7 billion solar program intended to help poorer Americans
The program was affiliated with another $20 billion in green funding also terminated under Trump.

TIL about "Hobo signs and symbols". To cope with the uncertainties of life in the Great Depression, hobos developed a system of symbols they’d write with chalk or coal to provide fellow “Knights of the Road” with directions, help, and warnings.
https://www.logodesignlove.com/hobo-signs-

Donald Trump has placed dozens of people with ties to the fossil fuel sector in his administration,
including more than 40 who have directly worked for oil, gas or coal companies, according to a new analysis.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/o…

China has shifted the world to renewables while Trump is pushing to sell his fossil fuels
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2rz08en2po

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity
Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

"New England’s final coal plant shuts down years ahead of schedule"
#US #USA #America #FossilFuels

New England’s final coal plant shuts down years ahead of schedule
Poor economics drove the aging New Hampshire plant offline three years early, even as the Trump administration pushes to revitalize coal.

I've had a few of these thoughts stuck in my craw all day because I watched this liberal historian talk about the Galleanisti.
https://youtube.com/shorts/93yHEn8BYE4
Basically, she says that "of course the government had the right to target them." Then she goes on to talk about how it became an excuse to carry out a bunch of attacks on other marginalized people. Now, the Galleanisti had been bombing the houses of politicians and such. I get where she's coming from saying that one of their targets "was in the right" to try to catch them. But there's some context she's not talking about at all.
These were Italian anarchists, so they were not white and they were part of an already marginalized political group. Basically all of Europe and the US was trying to wipe out anarchists at the time. Meanwhile, the sitting president at the time showed the first movie in the White House. That movie was KKK propaganda, in which he was favorably quoted. The US was pretty solidly white supremacist in the 1920's.
Like... A major hidden whole premise of the game "Bioshock: Infinite" is that if you went back to the US in the 1920's, and you had magic powers, you would absolutely use them to kill as many cops as possible and try to destroy society. There's a lot of other stuff in there, I don't want to get distracted, but "fuck those racists," specifically referring to the US in the 1920's, was a major part of a major game.
Those Italian anarchists were also stone cutters. They carved grave stones. But the dust from that can kill you, much like black lung for coal miners. So they were dying from unsafe working conditions, regularly raising money to support dying coworkers and then carving gravestones for those same coworkers.
Now, I personally think insurrectionary anarchism is a dead end. I disagree with it as a strategy. We've seen it fail, and it failed there. But of course it makes sense that they wanted to blow up the government.
...And that's the correct way to structure that. When you say, "of course they were in the right" you're making a very clear political statement. You could easily say, "the cops in Vichy France had every right to hunt down the French Resistance." You would technically be correct, I guess. But it would really say something about your politics if you justified the actions of Nazi collaborators over those fighting against the Nazis.
And you may say, "oh, but the Nazis didn't have justification for anything. They invaded a sovereign nation, so their government wasn't legitimate anyway."
To which I would reply, "have you considered a history book about the US?"

"Spain has broken the ruinous link between power prices and volatile fossil fuels, something its European neighbours are desperate to do. Spain risks sliding back into costly gas reliance amid post-blackout fears. Boosting grids and batteries will help Spain break free from fossil dependency for good."
It looks like the link is only partially broken, not through planning but due to scale.
Decoupled: how Spain cut the link between gas and power prices using

Decoupled: how Spain cut the link between gas and power prices using renewables | Ember
Spain has some of the lowest wholesale electricity prices in Europe, largely owing to the country’s strong solar and wind growth which reduced the influence of expensive coal and gas power on the electricity market.

Die US-Regierung unter #Trump plant, die angeschlagene #Kohleindustrie mit umfangreichen Maßnahmen zu stützen.
Dazu gehören 13,1 Millionen Hektar neue #Bergbauflächen, gelockerte…

Trump Officials Offer $625 Million to Rescue Coal
The new effort, which includes opening 13.1 million acres of federal land for mining and eliminating pollution limits, aims to save an industry that has been declining for decades.

China’s Decarbonization Is So Fast Even New Coal Plants Aren’t Stopping It
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/21/china-clean-renewable-energy-coal-plants-emissions/

10 years ago: China is building a new coal plant every 3 days, why should the US make itself less competitive by transitioning to renewables?
Today: One in four emerging economies (led by China) got more of their final energy from electricity than the US...and it's making them more competitive.

New Bamboo Plantations Are Healing Villages Choked by Toxic Ash from Coal Plants in India https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/new-bamboo-plantations-are-healing-villages-choked-by-toxic-ash-from-coal-plants-in-india/…

New Bamboo Plantations Are Healing Villages Choked by Toxic Ash from Coal Plants in India
India has nevertheless likely contaminated thousands of acres of marginal and arable land with "fly ash," a heavy particulate from coal.

Coal is linked to cancer
#CoalKills https://cleantechnica.com/2025/08/18/coal-is-linked-to-cancer-not-to-wind-power/

Greater Manchester Pension Fund has a rhetoric about net zero. It has increased its investments in coal.
GMPF goes for Coal! – FossilFreeGM.org.uk https://www.fossilfreegm.org.uk/index.php/2025/08/11/gmpf-goes-for-coal/

"Abandoned Queensland coal borehole found to be emitting 10,000 cars’ worth of greenhouse gas"
#Australia #Climate #ClimateChange

The White House will open 13.1m acres of public land to coal mining
while providing $625m for coal-fired power plants, the Trump administration has announced
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/29/trump-spending-coal-industry…

Australian government badly wanted Adani's giant new coal mine in Queensland. Now it doesn't pay corporate tax.
Despite $22bn promise, Adani has paid zero corporate tax in Australia and experts think it won’t ever pay a cent

Good news for the #environment: Longyearbyen is finally switching to #Diesel for #electricity generation, next month or the month after.

Air pollution in Baltimore's Curtis Bay community linked to nearby coal terminal activity, wind #Baltimore

Air pollution in Baltimore's Curtis Bay community linked to nearby coal terminal activity, wind
Bulldozer activity involving coal at an open-air facility at the Port of Baltimore is closely linked to air pollutants in the adjacent neighborhood of Curtis Bay, according to a community-driven study co-led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and South Baltimore community members.

In short: EVERYONE *normally* involved in retiring power plants agreed that this one is a costly and redundant antique that is not needed for #Michigan or #Midwest power resiliency. Keeping it online is adding to Consumers Energy customers' bills, as cheaper sources are left offline to make room for th…

Coal has been gone for 1 year in UK electricity generation as of end of September - I'm surprised I've not seen anything celebrating that.

If I were the operator of this coal plant - one that is costing me and electrical rate payers (you and me) a $million per day I would simply throw the switch and shut it down.
Yes, a $million per day. For power that is not needed, for pollution that is not wanted. And we get to foot the bill.
I'd tell FFOTUS to stuff it up his ample behind and that if he wants it he can hire staff, buy coal, and pay for it.

Trump said Mexico would pay for his wall.
He promised to put coal miners back to work.
He said he wouldn't cut Medicaid.
▶️ He's Lied to MAGA before. Why Is Epstein Different?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_dgU9bK-Tx0&si=jCh1NidGFf3umLVI

US Plans to Use Emergency Powers to Stop More Coal Closures | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/us-plans-to-use-emergency-powers-to-stop-more-coal-closures

China considers converting retiring coal plants into advanced nuclear reactors to accelerate clean energy goals. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Retiring coal plants could host China’s advanced nuclear reactors
China explores coal-to-nuclear shift, using retiring plants for advanced reactors to speed clean energy transition.

From David Suzuki
Petro-politicians are stuck in the polluting past
What is it with politicians who are dead set against any kind of progress? It’s clear that digging up, processing, transporting and wastefully burning gas, oil and coal is polluting land, water and air, heating the planet to critical levels and driving inflation. Renewable energy causes far less damage, is more efficient and less expensive, creates good jobs and doesn’t heat the planet.

Petro-politicians are stuck in the polluting past
It appears these politicians are governing for the benefit of a single industry — certainly not for the people they were elected to represent.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Continent
Wande Coal:
🎵 Again
#WandeCoal
https://mikemfnlove.bandcamp.com/track/wande-coal-again-mike-mfn-loves-riddim-driven-buy-out-2k25
https://open.spotify.com/track/6qk3jI8bKCgURI3h0d8zBZ

Ukrainian-style oligarchic economies: how concentrated power undermines value added in production chains
Jakub Karnowski, Przemyslaw Szufel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02949 http…

Ukrainian-style oligarchic economies: how concentrated power undermines value added in production chains
Oligarchic control exerts significant distortions on economic efficiency. Ukraine exemplifies this phenomenon, where oligarchs dominate key sectors and achieve economies of scale through vertical integration of coal mines, steel mills, and power plants while controlling critical infrastructure (e.g. access to transportation networks) to stifle competition. Their Soviet-era production chain monopolization strategies, coupled with political patronage networks (including both local and national go…

little joe, a 19th-century canary laid to rest by his coal miner in a handcrafted wooden coffin.

wow, look at all the decommissioned and demolished coal power stations in this list
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_England
good riddance

Tzeporah Berman’s campaign group believes Cop30 will help its initiative to phase out oil, coal and gas take shape
The fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty initiative aims to sidestep slow-moving UN climate talks by gathering together nations, cities and companies that want to rapidly phase out oil, coal and gas.
At the coming Cop30 summit in Belém, it hopes to gather support so it can launch negotiations for a new treaty next year.
The group’s founder, Tzeporah Berman, expl…

Trump offers regulatory relief for coal, iron ore and chemical industries (Matthew Daly/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-coal-epa-clean-air-exemption-mercury-7b800db8d6cf6fffbee28039f42d2daf
http://www.memeorandum.com/250717/p156#a250717p156

Ridiculous: The Trump regime will no longer permit any solar or wind projects on federal lands unless they produce more energy-per-acre than coal, gas or nuclear power plants.
https://heatmap.news/sparks/interior-department-wind-solar-land-use

A loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.
https://bsky.app/profile/franzferdinand2.bsky.social/post/3lvjvdzol222m

Planned coal production through to 2035 and planned fossil gas production through to 2050 are not only set to breach Paris Agreement targets to keep temperature increases 'well below' 2C while pursuing efforts to limit them to 1.5C, they have increased since the last time the analysis was carried out in 2023.
'Alarming': Fossil fuel production plans far exceed global climate targets | BusinessGreen News

'Alarming': Fossil fuel production plans far exceed global climate targets
Planned coal, oil, and gas production through to 2030 is double the level that would be consistent with limiting global warming to 2C, analysis shows

Interesting RTE analysis on the 🇫🇷 electricity spot market prices in the first half of 2025 (and first half of 2024). A clear 'canard'🦆
These are the average prices, which also include the winter months. But this new reality is barely reflected in retail prices.

A combined cycle gas turbine power plant that not only generates electricity but provides heat for buildings through Cornell's steam system -- this system is about 70% efficient compared to typical power plants at 35-45%
#cornell #photo

"Caught between a fossil fuel past and a green future, China’s coal miners chart an uncertain path"
#China #FossilFuels

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Hugh Masekela:
🎵 Stimela (The Coal Train)
#HughMasekela
https://open.spotify.com/track/5B7af2i43MdC8o9FB0svPg

#Indonesien wollte bis zum Jahr 2040 komplett auf erneuerbare Energien umgestellt haben. Aber nun haben sie festgestellt, dass der Plan aufgeht. Stattdessen wollen sie schon 2035 zu 100% auf Erneuerbare setzen.

#shame

Trump’s bid to support coal could cost ratepayers billions, report finds • Louisiana Illuminator
https://lailluminator.com/2025/08/17/trump-coal/

AGL breaks wind energy drought with 15-year contract in South Australia, supporting decarbonisation efforts and job creation. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Australia’s wind energy drought set to be broken as AGL signs 15-year contract with South Australia project
Australia’s wind financing drought expected to be broken after the country’s biggest coal generator signs 15-year off take deal with new South Australia project.

From David Suzuki
Science Matters - Small or big, new nuclear reactors are not climate solutions
Despite the efforts of industry and its supporters to convince us otherwise, coal, gas and oil are outdated, inefficient, polluting energy sources, especially compared to alternatives. Some people, including politicians, are touting nuclear power as a good alternative. Is it?
it’s far from clean, and it’s rife with problems

"PR firms are spreading climate misinformation on behalf of fossil fuel companies. Could Australia stop them?"
#Australia #FossilFuels #Energy

PR firms are spreading climate misinformation on behalf of fossil fuel companies. Could Australia stop them?
Have you heard offshore windfarms kill whales? (They don't.) Or that electric vehicles catch fire more often than petrol cars? (It's the opposite.) Perhaps you've heard "natural" gas is clean? (It can be worse than coal.)

Afrikanische Länder importieren so viele chinesische #Solarmodule wie nie zuvor.
Selbst kleinere Staaten wie #Algerien und #Tschad verzeichnen enorme Zuwächse.

Africa Is Buying a Record Number of Chinese Solar Panels
Energy-starved countries on the continent have reluctantly turned to coal and gas for decades. Cheap Chinese solar panels are now finally changing the calculus.

Some of the stuff that this guy is saying sounds like the mumbo jumbo you hear in the final act of some animes. GITS part 2 or „Stand-Alone Complex“ for example, where the bad guy is dumping exposition about the universe. You wonder what the author was smoking and can’t follow but you keep watching because of cool mecha action and explosions.
„The non-governmental system isolates you, mirrors you…“ „It lives in soft compliance delays“… yadda yadda. Your brain on ChatGPT.

1. Data centres consume vast amounts of electricity, and industry which, in NSW, is still beholden to coal.
2. Data centres also consume significant quantities of water.
3. Carbon-neutral is an accounting trick, not an engineered greenhouse gas mitigation strategy.
4. Construction’s one of the most heavily polluting industries.
This whole thing is a greenwash.

'input.voltage: 256.0' someones put an extra lump of coal on somewhere.

"Nations’ plans to ramp up coal, gas and oil extraction ‘will put climate goals beyond reach’"
#FossilFuels #Energy #Climate

A Weighted Least Squares Error Hetero-functional Graph State Estimator of the American Multi-modal Energy System
Dakota Thompson, Amro M. Farid
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19045 …

EPA plans to revise coal-fired power plant wastewater rules | Utility Dive
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/epa-coal-fired-power-plant-wastewater-effluent-elg/757529/

"US solar set to surpass wind in 2025, overtake coal by 2028"
#US #USA #America #SolarPower

US solar set to surpass wind in 2025, overtake coal by 2028
US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) figures show solar developers adding 16 GW through July 2025, nearly three-quarters of new capacity, with solar and wind each near 12% of the mix versus coal’s 15%. It says forecasts see solar overtaking wind next year and coal within three years.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/19/wildfire-smoke-far-more-dangerous-than-thought-say-scientists
The USA continuing to massively subsidize climate change acceleration via favors to coal and oil and …

"New Bamboo Plantations Are Healing Villages Choked by Toxic Ash from Coal Plants in India"
#India #Bamboo

New Bamboo Plantations Are Healing Villages Choked by Toxic Ash from Coal Plants in India
India has nevertheless likely contaminated thousands of acres of marginal and arable land with "fly ash," a heavy particulate from coal.

I want the Micro Processor to order my Pulsar(Level 2 special operations unit) to mine coal and deposit it into the core...
I'll let you know about my progress...
So "mlog" is the "Mindustry Logic" 'language'.
mindustrygame.github.io/wiki/logic/0-introduction/
but I first started here:

Guide: Logic Basics
Logic is a mechanic introduced in Version 6.0 of Mindustry, which allows you to override the default behaviour of blocks and units through a customised block code programming language called MLog that can be edited in text editors when pasted into one. Logic is run through Processors in conjunction with accessory blocks such as the Memory Cell, Switch and Logic Display. It is recommended to have some form of prior programming experience in order to be familiar with data types. The way...

"China’s coal heartland fighting for a greener future"
#China #FossilFuels #Energy

🌍 Satellite data reveal African grasslands' carbon uptake rises with rainfall, unlike forests and savannas
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-satellite-reveal-african-grasslands-carbon.html

Satellite data reveal African grasslands' carbon uptake rises with rainfall, unlike forests and savannas
Africa is a source of uncertainty in carbon cycle calculations. By some estimates, the continent's landscapes emit 2.1 billion tons more carbon dioxide than they take up each year—about equal to 1.5 times the annual emissions from coal-fired power plants. But other estimates are almost the complete opposite, suggesting that the continent's copious plant matter takes up 2.0 billion more tons of carbon dioxide per year than it releases.

Solar cells on cattle holding pens seems like a great idea! Probably tons of buildings and farms that would be fine with solar cells on top.
I'm no (food) scientist but I am a lot more confident that it doesn't pose a risk to the food source. But I'm less confident of growing crops under solar cells or solar cells floating on aquatic farms. Likely need significant maintenance over the years to prevent leaching and it's always hard for politicians to fix old instead of …

"‘Every company wants to produce the last barrel sold’: the treaty to stop fossil fuel production"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

"Utilities are doing even worse on climate than they were five years ago"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Utilities are doing even worse on climate than they were five years ago
Major U.S. utilities earn an "F" on a new report card because they're planning to build far too little clean energy and far too many gas-fired power…

Electricity in international comparison - Future technologies in power generation
Axel Kleidon, Harald Lesch, Russ Conser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14365 https://

Electricity in international comparison - Future technologies in power generation
Which technologies are currently booming in power generation? The answer can clearly be seen in the trends in global electricity generation data. Analysing this data using the theory of diffusion of innovations reveals how photovoltaics and wind power are gaining ground worldwide. Other technologies - especially coal and nuclear power - are being displaced, with Germany playing a pioneering role.

🛠️ Colombia Against the Fossil Fuel Age
#energy

Colombia Against the Fossil Fuel Age
Colombia’s energy transition is not just playing out in policy papers — it’s unfolding in oil fields, coal towns, and courtrooms. Jacobin spoke with engineers, unionists, and President Petro himself about trying to realize a post-extractivist economy.

"Researchers develop satellite-based method to boost accuracy of coal plant CO₂ emission estimates"
#FossilFuels #Emissions #Climate

Researchers develop satellite-based method to boost accuracy of coal plant CO₂ emission estimates
A new satellite-based method developed by Chinese researchers improves the accuracy of carbon dioxide (CO2) emission estimates from coal-fired power plants, according to a study published in Environmental Science & Technology.

"Trump administration spending $625m to revive dying coal industry"
#US #USA #America #FossilFuels
…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
DEVO:
🎵 Social Fools
#DEVO
https://deltaartmusic.bandcamp.com/track/working-in-the-coal-mine
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6G4PaS9BNkIuGqMo44rbfZ
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg

"Mercury Emissions Fall 70% Over the Last Four Decades Thanks to UN Treaty, Coal Phase-Out"
#UN #UnitedNations #Emissions

Mercury Emissions Fall 70% Over the Last Four Decades Thanks to UN Treaty, Coal Phase-Out
A study examining mercury concentrations in the leaves of alpine plants has revealed that humanity has reduced worldwide exposure to this most toxic of heavy metals substantially. Controlled via a UN treaty called the Minamata Convention on Mercury Emissions, mercury (Hg) enters the atmosphere through a variety of natural and anthropogenic avenues. Artisanal and small-scale […]

"Guest post: China and India account for 87% of new coal-power capacity so far in 2025"
#China #India #FossilFuels #Climate

Guest post: China and India account for 87% of new coal-power capacity so far in 2025 - Carbon Brief
China and India accounted for 87% of the new coal-power capacity put into operation in...

The Environmental Protection Agency moved on Friday
to stop requiring thousands of polluting facilities to report the amount of heat-trapping greenhouse gases that they release into the air.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/…

E.P.A. To Stop Collecting Emissions Data From Polluters
The data, from thousands of coal-burning power plants, oil refineries, steel mills and other industrial facilities, is the country’s most comprehensive way to track greenhouse gases.

"Chart: The retiring coal power plants Trump could revive"
#US #USA #America #Climate

Chart: The retiring coal power plants Trump could revive
The Energy Department keeps ordering expensive, polluting plants to keep running at the eleventh hour. Here’s what’s on the line through the end of…

"‘Europe is becoming a solar powerhouse’: Solar tops EU electricity as coal sinks to new low"
#Europe #SolarPower #Energy

Solar becomes EU’s largest electricity source for the first time
The Netherlands and Greece were the top solar record setters, while wind power also hit new highs in May and June.

"Top Fossil Fuel Producing Nations Plan to Blow Past Climate Targets"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

Top Fossil Fuel Producing Nations Plan to Blow Past Climate Targets - Inside Climate News
A report finds that the top producers of coal, gas and oil are planning to mine and drill even more of the fuels in 2030 than they were two years ago.

"Gravitational energy storage trials set for decommissioned mine in Australia"
#Australia #Energy

Gravitational energy storage trials set for decommissioned mine in Australia
Australian energy storage company Green Gravity and mining business Wollongong Resources have signed an agreement to deploy gravitational energy storage trials at a decommissioned coal mine.

"By 2051, emissions from coal mining on federal lands could drop by 86%"
#US #USA #America #Emissions

By 2051, emissions from coal mining on federal lands could drop by 86%
Federal lands—which make up about 640 million acres, or 28%, of U.S. soil—are used for many purposes, including conservation, recreation, and extraction of resources such as coal. Greenhouse gas emissions are released throughout the life cycle of coal use, including during its mining, transport, and combustion.

"Trump admin orders dirty, expensive coal plant to stay open even longer"
#US #USA #America #FossilFuels …

Trump admin orders dirty, expensive coal plant to stay open even longer
Keeping J.H. Campbell open past its slated close is costing Midwest households big. Advocates fear that more such orders are on the way.

"Trump’s push to keep coal plants running could cost consumers billions"
#US #USA #America #FossilFuels

Trump’s push to keep coal plants running could cost consumers billions
The DOE’s emergency stay-open orders for aging fossil-fuel plants are forcing unexpected costs onto utility customers. Additional orders would deepen the…

"Colorado town bets on geothermal to power local business growth"
#US #USA #America #Colorado

Colorado town bets on geothermal to power local business growth
Hayden, Colorado, a small former coal town, is building a geothermal heating and cooling network for its new business park, aiming to attract companies while cutting energy costs.Phil McKenna and Jake Bolster report for Inside Climate News.In short:The town is drilling 1,000-foot-deep boreholes to t...

"Trump admin’s new anti-renewables rule rooted in fossil-fuel misinformation"
#US #USA #America #Renewables

Trump admin’s new anti-renewables rule rooted in fossil-fuel misinformation
The Interior’s recent directive casts solar and wind energy as bad for the environment, without weighing costs of oil, coal, and gas, critics say.

"Google President Praised MAGA Speech Slamming ‘Climate Extremist Agenda’"
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Google President Praised MAGA Speech Slamming ‘Climate Extremist Agenda’
Interior Sec. Doug Burgum told an AI conference that data centers should be powered by coal, gas, and nuclear. Ruth Porat called his comments "fantastic.”