Tag: coal mines
‘Reckless’ coal companies moving forward with new mines and plants, report...
The majority of the new mining projects being planned were in China, India, Australia, Russia and South Africa.
New study warns to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, abandon ‘developed...
There should not only be no new development of oil and gas fields or coal mines, but also abandon 40 percent of "developed reserves" of fossil fuels.
Exposed: West Virginia and other states relying on ‘House of Cards’...
“Who pays? The damaged environment? The communities that are blighted by unreclaimed mine sites?”
US Forest Service broke law when opening 4,900 acres of Colorado...
“The Forest Service failed to provide a logically coherent explanation for its decision to eliminate the Pilot Knob Alternative.”
Thousands of activists stage protests at three German coal mines to...
"We want to show with our protest today that this mine needs to be shut down permanently."
US coal consumption to reach an all-time low in decades
"The trend lines showing the demise of coal shouldn't come as a shock to anyone, including those in the Trump administration and coal industry executives."
Ties of blood
Our deep and abiding connection with Mother Earth is what compels us to fight to protect it.
How Montanans Stopped the Largest New Coal Mine in North America
The abandonment of the Otter Creek mine project shows that land defenders and climate activists are learning how to take on big energy companies and win.
‘Nail in the Coffin’: Obama to Halt New Coal Mining Leases...
"The only safe place for coal in the 21st century is deep underground—these reforms will help keep more of it there."
China Bans New Coal Mines: Why Hasn’t U.S. Done the Same?
Should President Obama should use his last year in office to effectively put measures in place that keep fossil fuels in the ground?
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Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.
Del Monte Bankruptcy to destroy 420,000 Peach Trees in California
A steady decline in demand for canned products as consumers shift toward fresh produce and several other factors led to this collapse.