REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The domestic consumption of coal would more than double in five years after the government carry out its program to build power plants with a total capacity of 35,000 megawatt.
Most of the power plants to be built in the next five year are expected to be coal fired power plants.
LONDON – The World Coal Association (WCA) has today called on governments worldwide to recognise the vital role cleaner coal technologies play in reducing global CO2 emissions and increase investment in all low emission technologies.
Coal-fired power plants, refineries and other industries in 36 states will no longer be insulated from Clean Air Act fines from excess emissions when equipment is starting up, shutting down or malfunctioning, under a final rule the Environmental Protection Agency issued May 22.
Beneath a sky made opaque by billowing dust, a mechanised shovel driver steered his vehicle toward the vast wall of an open coal mine. It was the middle of a central Indian summer afternoon, and outside, the temperature had hit 45C. Up in the cab, 15 metres above the black, shiny ground, it was comfortable, air-conditioned.
The war on coal is not just political rhetoric, or a paranoid fantasy concocted by rapacious polluters. It’s real and it’s relentless. Over the past five years, it has killed a coal-fired power plant every 10 days. It has quietly transformed the U.S. electric grid and the global climate debate.
WILLISTON — Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., will re-introduce legislation on Thursday designed to encourage
IT’S NO LONGER SURPRISING TO encounter 100-foot pinwheels spinning in the breeze as you drive down the highway. But don’t get too comfortable with that view. A Spanish company called Vortex Bladeless is proposing a radical new way to generate wind energy that will once again upend what you see outside your car window.
