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China Canceled 104 New Coal Plants
Jan 18 2017 03:15 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Back in 2013, . . . China was using as much coal as the rest of the world combined, and . . . it looked like coal use would keep growing astronomically forever. Now the Chinese government ordered, . . . 13 provinces to cancel, . . . 104 coal-fired proj...
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Closing Nuclear Power Plant
Jan 07 2017 04:15 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Entergy Corp. . . . will shut both reactors, at the . . . Westchester County facility by . . . April 2021. On Sept. 11, 2001, . . . one of the hijacked planes flew over the nuclear plant, . . . before crashing into the World Trade Center. Cuomo spoke...
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Florida: Nuclear Plant Dispute
Dec 24 2016 02:20 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
U.S. District Judge Max Cogburn Jr. said, . . . Duke energy, was cleared of paying Westinghouse Electric Co., . . . $352 million tab in nuclear plant dispute, and is only required to pay, . . . $30 million termination fee, and about . . ....
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Texas: Model For Killing Coal Jobs
Dec 16 2016 02:30 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
As Texas expands its historic energy leadership into clean energy, . . . blazing new trails in: . . . . . . Natural gas extraction methods, . . . . . . Utility-scale solar PV, and . . . . . . boasting the nation’s largest fleet of wind turbines, . . ....
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Going Green
Dec 05 2016 05:00 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Portuguese environment minister João Pedro Matos Fernandes, . . . has confirmed that his country will stop burning coal by 2030 at the latest. Canada announced it would (virtually) phase out coal, American utility CEOs, and . . . European heads of go...
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U.s.a. Coal Industry: Sharp Decline
Nov 12 2016 02:35 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
The nation's 3 major coal-producing regions, including the West, . . . experienced the sharpest declines in production in . . . 29 years for 2015, and are on pace this year to hit declines even more severe. A 23% decrease in Coal consumption in th...
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India's Pollution Is So Bad
Nov 09 2016 02:00 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
The smog smothering millions in the Indian capital of New Delhi is so thick, . . . it's over 40 times what's considered safe by the World Health Organization, . . . over 6 times the limit set by Indian law, and . . . plainly visible from spac...
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Fort Calhoun: U.s. Nuclear Plant To Retire
Nov 02 2016 12:20 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Omaha, Nebraska's, Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station, . . . shut down on Monday, October 24, marks the . . . 5h nuclear retirement, over the past . . . 5 years. As plant owners make the decision to retire nuclear plants, . . . utilities must...
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Is Clean Coal A Lost Cause?
Oct 27 2016 05:00 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
The US Department of Energy (DoE), . . . first started sponsoring clean coal technology, back in the late . . . 1990s, and more than . . . $7.5bn of the federal budget has been allocated to supporting its development To date, not a single commer...
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China: 17 Gw Of Coal Plants Stopped
Oct 25 2016 09:35 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
China has halted construction on . . . 30 large coal-fired power plants, with a combined capacity of . . . 17 GW (a figure that is greater than the entire coal fleet of the United Kingdom) 10-25-2016 Source: China: 17 GW Of Coal Plants Stopped
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94% Of India’S New Planned Coal
Oct 05 2016 12:05 AM | eds in Non-Renewable
Greenpeace’s Energy Desk, says, . . . 94% of the planned new coal capacity, . . . will be laying idle in 2022, . . . due to an unplanned overcapacity. Numerous demonstrations in India, and around the world, . . . have shown that decentralized renewabl...
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Jeremy Rifkin On Nuclear Power
Sep 18 2016 08:05 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Jeremy Rifkin on Nuclear Power
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Coal Plant Closing
Sep 07 2016 01:10 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
A 1965 Southern Nevada Coal Plant, . . . is in the process of being: . . . . . . Shut down, . . . . . . Decommissioned, and . . . . . . Demolished. 9-7-2016 Source: Coal plant closing
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Nuclear Plant Decommissioning Costs
Sep 02 2016 10:55 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
The 43-year-old, 478-megawatt-capacity nuclear plant at Fort Calhoun, . . . is the smallest such plant in the country, which explains in part, . . . why it has become financially untenable to continue operating. December 31, 2016, it will shut down,...
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Usa: Coal Vs Renewable Energy
Aug 26 2016 01:05 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
USA in 2016: . . . Down 20% = Coal, and . . . Up 17% = Renewable Energy. 8-26-2016 Source: USA: Coal VS Renewable Energy
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“Climate” Report = Things Are Not Great
Aug 04 2016 01:55 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
2015 was not only the warmest year on record, . . . but also saw several other records broken, . . . records that we didn’t really want to see broken In addition: . . . . . . greenhouse gases were highest on record, . . . . . . global surface temperat...
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Is Coal "clean?"
Jul 13 2016 01:30 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
The GOP’s platform committee, . . . unanimously voted to declare coal . . . “an abundant, clean, affordable, reliable domestic energy resource.” Environmentalists reacted swiftly to the decision, . . . essentially calling Republicans delusional. Coal...
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Water:
Jun 27 2016 05:00 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Electricity generation, is a significant consumer of water: . . . more than 5 times as much water globally, . . . as domestic uses: . . . . . . drinking, . . . . . . preparing food, . . . . . . bathing, . . . . . . washing clothes, . . . . . . washing...
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Climate Change: "on The Record"
Jun 13 2016 02:05 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Bob Inglis: We Are All on the Record, on Climate Change
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Coal Sales
Jun 12 2016 06:15 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Indian coal imports fell: . . . . . . 34% year on year (yoy) in December 2015, . . . . . . 49% year on year (yoy) in November 2015. During 2015 alone, the cost of Indian solar declined by . . . 20%, with recent awards of over 10GW of new solar tenders...
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Follow The Money: $13 Billion
May 28 2016 03:10 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Oilfield service providers, . . . FMC Technologies Inc. FTI, and . . . Technip SA, . . . have agreed to merge in an all-stock deal worth $13 billion. The price movement of the major oil and gas players, . . . over the last 6 months. 5-28-2016 So...
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Follow The Money: $2 Trillion
May 23 2016 06:35 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Saudi Arabia, (the world’s biggest oil exporter)Follo is creating a . . . $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund, (the biggest in the world) . . . to wean Saudi’s economy away from over-reliance on oil by 2030. 5-22-2016 Source: Follow the Money:...
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The Carbon Era
May 21 2016 06:10 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
The Carbon Era: . . . Can we really afford to keep up our bad habits?
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Petroleum Industry Climate Deceit
Apr 19 2016 06:00 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Exxon had known about, . . . the role of fossil fuels in global warming, . . . as early as 1977. Digging deeper, the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), . . . traced the industry’s coordinated, decades-long deception back to a . . . 194...
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Fossil Fuel's Gone In 10 Years?
Apr 19 2016 12:15 AM | eds in Non-Renewable
Sussex Energy Group at the University of Sussex, . . . focused on Europe’s energy consumption, and . . . developed models of phasing out fossil fuels completely, . . . within 10 years, . . . if government leaders commit to it. 4-18-2016 Source: Fossi...
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