All Articles on Coal
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News Shifting Subsidies to Renewable Energy Instead of Propping Up Fossil Fuel Giants Would Prompt 'Clean Energy Revolution', Study Shows "What we are doing is using taxpayers' money to boost hurricanes, to spread droughts, to melt glaciers, to bleach corals. In one word: to destroy the world." Read more |
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News In 'Visionary' Document, Small Island Nations Declare 'Climate Crisis' in Pacific Declaration includes demand for end to fossil fuel development and for nations most responsible for crisis to "urgently change direction." Read more |
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News Berkeley, California Makes 'Incredible Leap' Away From Fossil Fuels With Natural Gas Ban in New Buildings "Many cities would be satisfied or content to just declare a climate emergency. This is what acting on it looks like." Read more |
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News "He Might've Stayed a Minute": Coal Miners With Black Lung Slam McConnell for Brushing Them Off in Healthcare Meeting "It was a worthless trip, that's the way I feel," said one of the 120 coal miners who traveled to Washington, D.C. to meet with the Republican leader Read more |
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News Insurance Giant Ditching Coal Industry Called 'Major Step Forward'—Especially If Others Follow "It's the first shoe to drop but won't be the last. All eyes are now on the other big US insurers." Read more |
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News 'We Are Unstoppable, Another World Is Possible!': Hundreds Storm Police Lines to Shut Down Massive Coal Mine in Germany "This is not only about coal power," said one Ende Gelände spokesperson. "This is about changing a destructive system that is based on the quest for infinite economic growth and exploitation. We are fighting for a future in which people count more than profits." Read more |
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News Because 'Another World Is Possible,' Tens of Thousands of Activists Stage Climate Mobilizations in Germany With anti-coal Ende Gelände action in one city and Fridays for Future rally in another, activists demand urgent climate action Read more |
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News Chorus of Outrage as Trump Admin. Throws Climate, Public Health Under Bus by Killing Obama-Era Clean Power Plan "This is an immoral and an illegal attack on clean air, clean energy, and the health of the public." Read more |
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News In Ruling on Coal Mining, Federal Judge Issues Latest Rebuke of Trump's Attack on Public Lands About 40 federal rulings have now blocked the president from rolling back environmental and public health regulations Read more |
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News 'Simple Laws of Economics' Doom Remaining US Coal Plants as Solar and Wind Are Now Cheaper for American Households "America has officially entered the 'coal cost crossover.'" Read more |