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Effect of Coal Mine Exploration of The Environment : Toxic Coal Ash Piling Up In Ponds in 32 States
Millions of tons of toxic coal ash is piling up in power plant ponds in 32 states, a practice the federal government has long recognized as a risk to human health and the environment but has left unregulated.
NTPC shortlists two coal firms from Indonesia for JV
The state-run National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has shortlisted two Indonesian Companies, Persada Investama and Sugico Graha, for coal mining. The corporation proposes to participate in the forthcoming bidding process for the coastal ultra mega power projects (UMPP) based on its proposed agreement with these Companies.
According to sources, NTPC and Indonesian coal Companies can jointly [...]
US hopes for clean coal energy
Much talked-about US efforts to build a coal-fired power plant with near zero emissions are now concentrated in a single project, as the costs and difficulties of the endeavour have mounted and the stakes have risen.
FutureGen, a $US1.5 billion public-private venture, aims to design and test the technology required to turn coal into a gas [...]
Coal Surge Seen by Mobius as China’s Imports Increase (Update2)
Coal is poised to rebound from a two-year slump as China buys more than it exports for the first time in history.
Power use in China, the world’s biggest coal producer, is rising 13 percent annually, and utilities are building plants at a record pace. The nation gets 78 percent of its electricity from coal, spurring [...]
Coal plans prompt warning
Environmental groups warned this week that plans for more coal-fired power plants in the Southwest will worsen the threat of global warming and undermine the states’ conservation efforts.
A report by Environmental Defense and Colorado-based Western Resource Advocates says the greenhouse gas emissions from the roughly dozen coal-fired plants planned or recently built will be the [...]
State bars PG&E and other power companies from buying dirty power
California power companies will be barred from buying electricity from most coal-fired power plants after state utility regulators adopted new limits on emissions of heat-trapping gases linked to global warming.
Thursday’s 4-0 vote by the Public Utilities Commission prohibits investor-owned utilities from entering long-term contracts to obtain electricity from sources that emit more carbon dioxide than [...]
EU Commission to Present Energy Plan
An energy crunch that chokes fuel supplies, dims the lights at homes and workplaces, and ravages Western economies may no longer be the stuff of 1970s history books. It could be a vision of the near future.
The 1970s oil crisis gave Western countries a glimpse of what life is like when the energy supply isn’t [...]
Coal Hard Cash for Peabody?
The world’s largest private coal producer has an innovative plan to move into the power business, but environmental groups are up in arms
The U.S. is on the cusp of a coal boom. While record oil prices have fired up interest in renewable energy sources, that other fossil fuel still generates more than half of the [...]
