From The Daily Caller Energy Chris White Tech Reporter January 13, 2020 11:27 AM ET Coal plants shuttered at the second fastest rate in U.S. history in 2019, Reuters reported Monday, citing federal data. Energy companies retired nearly 15,100 megawatts (MW) of coal-fired electricity that year, enough to electrify millions of homes, the report notes,…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to NYT, President Trump has moved to modify a 50 year old rule which requires Federal Agencies to consider the “cumulative consequences” of new infrastructure, to prevent courts from interpreting this as a requirement to consider climate change. Trump Rule Would Exclude Climate Change in Infrastructure Planning By Lisa FriedmanJan.…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Scott Morrison Conservative government has agreed more action is required on climate change, but defended its support for coal mining. McCormack concedes Australia must do more to fight climate crisis – but links fires to ‘self-combusting manure’ Deputy prime minister also suggests there’s ‘a lot of hysteria about climate…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to The Atlantic, while governments squabble Investment Bankers are acting to save the planet from global warming. Why Goldman Sachs Is Fighting Climate Change—And the UN Isn’t Bankers on Wall Street brought the best news for the climate this week. What’s even happening? ROBINSON MEYER 2:51 PM ET ……
From The Daily Caller Chris White Tech Reporter November 23, 2019 8:51 PM ET Coal producers are still finding life difficult even as President Donald Trump is easing regulations on the industry. More than 50 coal plants have shuttered since 2015, when Trump began campaigning to save the industry from former President Barack Obama’s so-called…
From The GWPF Date: 31/10/19 Bloomberg There’s just no stopping coal in Southeast Asia. Surging investments in wind and solar energy won’t be enough to shake the fuel’s dominance in the region for decades to come, according to the International Energy Agency. Coal demand is expected to double to almost 400 million tons a year…
From The Times of India October 13, 2019, 2:00 am IST SA Aiyar in Swaminomics | India | TOI Greta Thunberg, the 16-year old Swedish girl who lectured the United Nations on climate change, is being touted as a possible Nobel Prize winner. She believes she and her white Swedish teenage friends have to save…
Guest MSEAGA by David Middleton Making Southeast Asia Great Again… ‘Coal is still king’ in Southeast Asia even as countries work toward cleaner energy PUBLISHED MON, SEP 30 2019 Huileng Tan KEY POINTS • Not only will coal continue to be the dominant fuel source in power generation in Southeast Asia, its use will grow…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t ResourceGuy; despite a recent survey which suggested India is more concerned about climate change than most countries, Prime Minister Modi‘s determination to extend the electric grid to poor people, coupled with a drop in domestic production, appears to be driving a surge in demand for coal imports. Coal imports…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall All that potential to embarrass the USA not being realised… China is positioned to lead on climate change as the US rolls back its policiesSeptember 12, 2019 9.05pm AEST Kelly Sims Gallagher Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy and Director, Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at The Fletcher School,…