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Top doctors' prescription for feverish planet: Cut out coal
2015-06-23 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Some top international doctors and public health experts have issued an urgent prescription for a feverish planet Earth: Get off coal as soon as possible. Substituting cleaner energy worldwide for coal will reduce air pollution and give Earth a better chance at avoiding dangerous climate change, recommended a global health commission organized by the prestigious British medical journal Lancet. The panel said hundreds of thousands of lives each year are at stake and global warming "threatens to...
Tenaga to acquire 1MDBs majority stake in $3.6bn coal fired power project in Malaysia
2015-06-19 01:00:00| Power Technology
Malaysian power utility Tenaga has announced plan to acquire the state-owned 1Malaysia Development Berhad's (1MDB) entire 70% stake in a 2GW coal-fired power project, 3B.
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Duke Energy: Chatham County Agrees to Take Coal Ash Landfill for $19M
2015-06-18 22:32:00| Waste Age
4-Traders Chatham County, N.C., officials have agreed not to oppose a coal ash landfill planned in their county in exchange for nearly $19 million from Duke Energy. read more
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MIT panel calls for targeted divestment in coal, tar sands
2015-06-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Boston Globe: In a sweeping new report, a climate change committee at MIT has thrown its support behind targeted divestment from coal and tar sand companies and called for the creation of a new institute dedicated to global warming. The 52-page report, released this week, described climate change as "society's grandest challenge of the present day, possibly of all time,' and urged broad action in confronting it. "The time has come for MIT to play a prominent, visible part in the action and solutions needed...
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GOP Senators Wary of EPA Coal Ash Rule
2015-06-17 21:23:00| Waste Age
The Hill Republican senators on Wednesday aired concerns with the Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) rule on coal ash disposal, saying they might try to revise it. read more
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