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Democrats’ And GOP Energy Policies Clash At Midterms
President Joe Biden’s recent statements denouncing coal drew fire from Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and several western Democrats, upsetting the calculus for many elections out west. In midterms, Biden ...
How Joe Manchin Enabled President Biden’s Assault On The Coal Industry
TOPSHOT – US President Joe Biden signs the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 into law during a … [+] ceremony in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 16, 202...
Coal Was Meant to Be History. Instead, Its Use Is Soaring
(Bloomberg) — Last November in Glasgow, the world’s climate leaders were locked in a fierce debate over whether the final draft of the summit’s agreement should include a pledge to “phase-out” o...
Elon Musk’s Personal Mouthpiece, Raging Arctic Wildfires—And A Simple Emissions Solution For Coal Plants
This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. Anadolu Agency via Getty Images When you ...
This Material Could Reduce CO2 From Coal Plants After Record Emissions Last Year, Study Finds
Topline Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) say that a material called aluminum formate could be used to scrub carbon dioxide from power plant smokestacks before i...
Is Credit Suisse a Canary in the Financial Industry Coal Mine?
Really seeing the deeper limits of high finance, though, requires attention to the relationship between speculation and crisis. Entities like Suisse and Deutsche that try to “break in” to mergers advi...
Pimco Reloads Stock Shorts, Says Tech Is ‘Canary in Coal Mine’
(Bloomberg) — Pacific Investment Management Co. raised bearish stock wagers as the market bounced back, according to portfolio manager Erin Browne, who warns that the latest earnings woes from t...
This Bitcoin Mine Is Getting Rid Of Pennsylvania’s Leftover Coal Waste
Who’s going to put leftover coal to use powering the world’s most incredible financial network? Bitcoin, that’s who. Another day, another story about bitcoin mining actually protecting the environment...
The U.K. Canary In The Federal Reserve Coal Mine
Yellow canary on its perch getty Miners used to keep canaries in their mines because the bird had very fragile lungs and when the air became toxic the bird would fall off its perch dead, long before t...
Billionaire Anthoni Salim To Inject $1.6 Billion To Coal Miner Bumi Resources Through Private Placement
Anthoni Salim speaks during a news conference in Tokyo, Japan Yuriko Nakao/Bloomberg Shareholders of Indonesian coal miner Bumi Resources approved a plan on Tuesday to raise up to $1.6 billion by issu...
Back From Brink, Sasol Gets On The Path To Greener Chemicals
The Lake Charles Chemical Project cost $12.75 billion. Sasol Louisiana megaproject complete, CEO Fleetwood Grobler is cutting risk and emissions at South Africa’s energy leader. After a peripate...
How Berkshire Hathaway Energy Escaped ‘The Coal Trap’
HILLSBOROUGH, NJ – JULY 15: Employees of SunEdison install photovoltaic solar panels on the roof of … [+] a Kohl’s Department Store on July 15, 2008 in Hillsborough, New Jersey. Comp...
Electric Vehicle Battery Production May Lead To Coal Country’s Return
US President Joe Biden tours the General Motors Factory ZERO electric vehicle assembly plant with … [+] General Motors CEO Mary Barra (2L), Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh (2R), and United Auto W...
Putin Threatens to Let Europe ‘Freeze’ — Russian President Warns ‘We Will Not Supply Gas, Oil, Coal, Heating Oil’ – Economics Bitcoin News
Following the discussions concerning the inter-governmental political forum Group of Seven (G7) pledging to impose price caps on crude oil and the European Commission talking about fixing electricity ...
Poland homeowners are lining up for days, sleeping in their cars to buy fuel — and coal stocks are still white-hot due to the demand
‘This is beyond imagination’: Poland homeowners are lining up for days, sleeping in their cars to buy fuel — and coal stocks are still white-hot due to the demand It’s still summer in Pola...
Tornado in the Coal Mine — How Globalists Plan to Penalize Privacy and the Poor – Op-Ed Bitcoin News
No privacy. No property. No prosperity. If you follow the news, you’ve seen the trend — putting legal limits on cash transactions, the emergence of surveillance-oriented, central bank digital currenci...
Billions In Just Transition Funding For Coal Communities
Michelle Solomon is a co-author of this article. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is the most significant climate legislation in United States history. Energy Innovation Policy and Technology LLC® mo...
Coal Giants Are Making Mega Profits as Climate Crisis Grips the World
(Bloomberg) — The globe is in the grips of a climate crisis as temperatures soar and rivers run dry, and yet it’s never been a better time to make money by digging up coal. Most Read from Bloomb...
We’ll have to burn additional coal in the short term, CFO of RWE says
An excavator photographed at a lignite mine operated by RWE on April 8, 2022. RWE says it wants to be carbon neutral by 2040. Alex Kraus | Bloomberg | Getty Images The chief financial officer of Germa...
Global Coal Consumption Surged In 2021
PEINE, GERMANY – AUGUST 03: In this aerial view machines unload coal from a barge destined for the … [+] nearby coal-fired Kraftwerk Mehrum power station on August 03, 2022 near Peine, Ger...
Energy Market Madness Leads To Record-Breaking Coal Consumption
Global coal-fired electricity generators are producing more power than ever before in response to booming electricity demand after the pandemic and the surging price of gas following Russia’s invasion...
Senator Joe Manchin just said he won’t support the climate bill — is it time to dump solar stocks for good and double down on coal producers?
Senator Joe Manchin just said he won’t support the climate bill — is it time to dump solar stocks for good and double down on coal producers? Renewable energy stocks were some of the biggest winners i...
Winter Is Coming. Energy Solutions Are Not.
Madrid, Spain. January 2022. An unusually cold winter next year like 2022 would be disastrous for … [+] European Unity. LightRocket via Getty Images A grim outlook was presented to European lead...
Why The U.S. Can’t Curb The World’s Carbon Dioxide Emissions
HEBEI, CHINA – NOVEMBER 19: Smoke billows from smokestacks and a coal fired generator at a steel … [+] factory on November 19, 2015 in the industrial province of Hebei, China. China’...
Why Everyone Is Talking About The Texas Electric Grid
AUSTIN, TX – JUNE 08: Texas State Senator Charles Schwertner speaks during a press conference where … [+] Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bills 2 and 3 at the Capitol on June 8, 2021 in...
Members Of Congress Push Back On EPA’s Threat To The Permian Basin
WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 21: Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX) speaks to the media with members of the … [+] Republican Study Committee about Iran on April 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. The group has...
Coal Is on Its Way Out, Despite Supreme Court EPA Ruling
Text size A NextEra Energy wind farm in Whitewater, Calif. Bing Guan/Bloomberg The U.S. utility industry’s shift from coal and toward renewables likely will be unaffected by a recent Supreme Court rul...
Germany Reopens Coal Plants Because Of Reduced Russian Energy
Topline Germany’s parliament on Friday agreed to reactivate retired coal power plants to generate electricity, decreasing their reliance on precarious Russian supplies, but potentially bringing the co...
Supreme Court Clouds Future Of EPA Clean Air Rules, Threatening Climate Goals
Aerial view of coal power plant high pipes with black smoke moving up polluting atmosphere at … [+] sunrise. getty SCOTUS ruling could set back efforts to fight climate change, affect energy inv...
Coal miner stocks fall after Supreme Court ruling limiting EPA’s role
Coal miner stocks are falling, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling that restricts the U.S. government’s reach in controlling emission from coal-fired power plants. Shares of Peabody ...