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Climate activists threaten to shut down world's major coal sites
2016-03-01 08:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate activists will use direct action to try to shut down major coal sites across the world in May, including the UKs largest opencast coal mine in south Wales. The dozen international sites facing civil disobedience from the Break Free 2016 campaign span the globe from the US to Australia and South Africa to Indonesia. The Ffos-y-fran opencast mine, near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales, is about halfway through extracting 11m tonnes of coal. Ellie Groves, from the Reclaim the Power network, said:...
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China coal consumption drops again
2016-02-29 12:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Chinas coal consumption fell for the second year in a row, government data showed Monday, as the worlds biggest polluter attempts to tackle chronic pollution that accompanied economic growth. Coal use fell 3.7% last year compared to 2014 levels, according to a report from Chinas National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The drop follows a 2.9% decrease in 2014. Chinas rise to the worlds second largest economy was largely powered by cheap, dirty coal. As growth slows, the country has had a difficult...
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Group Challenging Decision to Allow Coal Waste in Va. Rivers
2016-02-26 23:18:38| Waste Management - Topix.net
The Charlottesville-based Southern Environmental Law Center is officially challenging a state board's decision to allow Virginia's rivers to serve as a dumping place for treated coal ash wastewater. But environmental activists insist the permits Dominion has doesn't go far enough to keep the watersheds safe.
This Pennsylvania Prison Was Built Next to a Coal Waste Dump
2016-02-26 15:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: When the State Correctional Institute at Fayette opened its doors in 2003, it was to replace and consolidate two nearby prisons into one streamlined, modern incarceration campus 45 miles south of Pittsburgh in Fayette County. The prison is located on an old strip-mining site in Western Pennsylvanias coal fields adjacent to a dump for fly ash, the powdery residue left over from coal combustion. The property is owned by Matt Canestrale Contracting, but First Energy is one of the largest customers....
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Coal, climate change clash in Colstrip
2016-02-25 07:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Great Falls Tribune: Ashley Dennehy, 24, left this town of 2,300 to go to college, but coal and the quality of life it fuels brought her back. Schools are great. A stone's throw from the Yellowstone River, recreational opportunities abound. Then there's the jobs. Dennehy's husband, a mechanical engineer at the Rosebud Coal Mine, earns more than $70,000 a year. That's more than the state's median household income of $46,230, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. "Where are you going to find that?" said Dennehy,...
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