カテゴリー: Coal
South Korea will delay the shutdown of coal-fired plants, while the Philippines also plans to boost the output of its coal-burning plantsGovernments across Asia are ramping up their use of coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel, as they try to cover huge energ…
As deadly heatwaves become more frequent, demand for life-saving cooling is further straining India’s generation capacity Continue reading…
As the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter shifts to cleaner energy, some families fear being left behindGazing over the remains of his home, Wang Bingbing surveys a decades-old jujube tree flowering through the rubble, and the yard where he and his…
Shanxi produces more coal than India. How will it survive in China’s clean energy future?Deep in the recesses of an underground cavern, covered in dust and soot, Xu Xiaobo wondered why, having recently graduated with a degree in mechanics, he was on hi…
Jorge Toledo’s comments come after approvals for coal power projects increased in second half of 2024The EU’s ambassador to China has urged Beijing to stop building coal-fired power plants, saying that its rapid approval of new projects was increasingl…
Minimum quotas for purchase of coal power and new project approvals threaten major advances in renewable energy production, thinktanks sayChina’s energy production is putting coal and renewables in competition with each other, according to a new analys…
About 40 assailants fired rockets and hurled grenades at mines and miners’ quarters in country’s south-west, days before regional summit in IslamabadDozens of attackers armed with guns, rockets and hand grenades have stormed a cluster of private coalmi…
Documentary charts historic case of a community who sued arm of World Bank over a power plant’s impact on their livesEarly on in The Fisherman and the Banker, Ibrahim Saliman Manjalia, a charismatic fisher originally from Badreshwar, tells those gather…
Study finds about a quarter of health burden comes from power stations that generate just 3% of country’s electricityIndia struggles with some of the worst air pollution in the world. Now scientists have worked out which of the country’s power plants a…
Power shortages in recent years have tested country’s commitment to cutting reliance on coal-fired energyChina’s addiction to building new coal-fired power plants is becoming increasingly entrenched, even as the country is on track to reach peak CO2 em…
World’s biggest carbon emitter approving equivalent of two new coal plants a week, analysis showsChina is approving new coal power projects at the equivalent of two plants every week, a rate energy watchdogs say is unsustainable if the country hopes to…
Move to power Glenbrook steel plant with electricity from renewables rather than coal will reduce emissions by 1% – or the equivalent of taking 300,000 cars off the roadNew Zealand has announced its largest emissions reduction project in history, trans…
Local governments approved more coal power in first three months of 2023 than all of 2021Local governments in China approved more new coal power in the first three months of 2023 than in the whole of 2021, according to official documents.The approvals,…
Concerns about energy shortages drive increase as projects progress at ‘extraordinary’ speedChina approved the construction of another 106 gigawatts of coal-fired power capacity last year, four times higher than a year earlier and the highest since 201…
Mining company operating in autonomous region of Inner Mongolia has history of safety violationsAt least five people have died and 48 are missing after an open-pit coalmine collapsed in Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region in north China.One of the wal…