By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
American coal country has seen hard days as utilities abandon coal for cheaper, less carbon-intensive natural gas and renewables. The Trump administration, trying to make good on a campaign promise to rejuvenate the coal industry, is attempting yet again to revive demand for coal by labeling coal-fired power plants as essential to national security.
By Christian Schwägerl, Yale Environment 360
A recent battle over imposing a “climate fee” on coal-fired power plants highlights Germany’s continuing paradox: Even as the nation aspires to be a renewable energy leader, it is exploiting its vast reserves of dirty brown coal.
By Paul Mobbs, The Ecologist
Quietly, and with no public discussion, the Government has been putting in place a system of licences and financial assistance to kick-start a UCG industry in Britain.
By Energy Crunch staff, New Economics Foundation
2014: the year we turned the corner on CO2 emissions?
By Julie Dermansky, DeSmog Blog
The future of energy development in New Mexico’s Four Corners region is at a crossroads.
By Energy Crunch staff, New Economics Foundation
Will 2015 prove to be a tipping point in the journey to a zero carbon energy system?
By Bart Anderson, Resilience.org
Syriza: another energy is possible / Renewable energy grab in the Sahara? / China cuts coal use / Canada and Keystone
By Energy Crunch staff, New Economics Foundation
This week we saw three important signs of the increasingly moribund state of the fossil fuel industry.
By Bill McKibben, EcoWatch
If you’re a politician, science is a bitch; it resists spin.
By Gail Tverberg, Our Finite World
On August 6, I wrote a post called Making Sense of the US Oil Story, in which I looked at US oil. In this post, I would like to look at other sources of US energy.
By Laura Flanders, YES! magazine
The people who agreed to spend their days digging coal from the underside of mountains produced enough power to industrialize the nation: They're owed something back.
By Nancy LaPlaca, Energy & Policy Institute
Arizona, the sunniest state in the U.S., is 3.2% solar and 40-50% coal...what?! It's a shining example of how broken the electricity system is...