Coal

Will Taxpayers Foot Cleanup Bill For Bankrupt Coal Companies?

May 23, 2016 Patrick McGinley, www.theconversation.com Educate! Coal, Taxes

By Patrick McGinley for The Conversation - Coal’s share of the U.S. energy market is rapidly plunging. Low-cost fracking-generated natural gas has overtaken the use of coal at America’s power plants. Impending implementation of the Obama administration’s proposed Clean Power Plan, which would place stringent regulations on coal-fired power plant emissions, has also helped to drive coal production to its lowest level in decades. Government sources predict further decline. Fifty U.S. coal companies have filed for bankruptcy since 2012.

Climate Resistance Breaks Free From Fossil Fuels

May 15, 2016 Rising Tide of North America, risingtidenorthamerica.org Resist! Carbon infrastructure, Climate Change, Coal, Gas, Oil, Oil Trains, Refineries

From Rising Tide of North America. Below is a live blog of tweets reporting on the Break Free protests. For the past week, across the world people have been standing up to power of the fossil fuel industry. Rising Tide North America will be sharing live updates from Break Free actions through the weekend. Tweet from the United States, Canada, Germany and Ecuador. People came on land and on the water. The protested refineries, coal, coal trains and carbon infrastructure. People used banners, processions, sit-ins and tripods -- and more. The global uprising across the world called for humanity to break fee from fossil fuels.

The Coal Vs. Fracking Canard

May 14, 2016 Mitch Jones, www.foodandwaterwatch.org Educate! Coal, Fossil Fuels, Fracking, Renewable Energy

By Mitch Jones for Food & Water Watch - Following a recent report from the Department of Energy that 66 percent of natural gas produced in the United States comes from fracked wells and news that March was the third straight “hottest month ever,” Mother Jones has published a piece – for a second time this year – that argues that fracking for natural gas is a valuable, even necessary, tool in the fight against climate change because it displaces coal. Both pieces were written by ClimateDesk Associate Producer Tim McDonnell.

US Gov Upholds Treaty Obligations – Rejects Giant Coal Export Terminal

May 13, 2016 Mary Anne Hitt, www.sierraclub.org Resist! Coal, United States

By Mary Anne Hitt for Sierra Club - This is big - for our climate, for clean air and water, for our future. It’s also big because the US government is honoring its treaty obligations. After a five-year struggle that engaged hundreds of thousands of people, on Monday the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a landmark decision todeny federal permits for the biggest proposed coal export terminal in North America, SSA Marine’s proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal, a coal export facility at Xwe’chi’eXen (also known as Cherry Point), Washington.

Organizers: Peabody Coal Will Not Escape Justice Via Bankruptcy

May 7, 2016 Kelly Hayes, www.truth-out.org Resist! Bankruptcy, Coal, Corporations, Protests

By Kelly Hayes for Truthout - Missouri activists have long struggled against the environmental devastation, residential displacement and unsafe labor practices of Peabody Coal, the world's second-largest coal producer, which is based in St. Louis. Peabody's acts of destruction have been vast and numerous, from contaminating aquifers with toxic coal sludge to its disregard of labor safety standards, and even the looting of sacred Native artifacts. But the company's recent bankruptcy filing has brought little comfort to those most affected by Peabody's conquest and avarice.

World’s Largest Coal Company Files For Bankruptcy

April 14, 2016 Tracy Rucinski, www.reuters.com Educate! Bankruptcy, Coal, Corporations

By Tracy Rucinski for Reuters - Leading global coal producer Peabody Energy Corp (BTU.N) filed for U.S. bankruptcy protection on Wednesday after a sharp drop in coal prices left it unable to service debt of $10.1 billion, much of it incurred for an expansion into Australia. The Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing ranks among the largest in the commodities sector since energy and metal prices began to fall in mid-2014 as once fast-growing markets including China and Brazil started to slow.

Protest Against Japanese Funding For Coal Power Plant In Indonesia

April 8, 2016 Luke, www.dcindymedia.org Resist! Coal, Indonesia, Japan, Protests

By Luke for DC Indy Media - On the 31st of March, climate activists showed up at the Japanese Embassy to demand that the Prime Minister Abe reject plans for Japanese governmental funding of the planned Batang coal burning power plant in Indonesia. For four years Indonesian activists have stopped the plant and defended the land at the price of arrests and human rights violations. No bank will touch it, so now funding is being sought from the Japanese government.

Blankenship Gets Maximum Sentence: One Year In Prison, $250K

April 7, 2016 Ken Ward Jr., www.wvgazettemail.com Resist! Coal, Corporations, Corruption, worker safety

By Ken Ward Jr. for Charleston Gazette-Mail - Former Massey Energy Co. CEO Don Blankenship, who rose from humble beginnings in Mingo County to become the wealthy and powerful chief executive of one of the region’s largest coal producers, will serve one year in prison and pay a $250,000 fine for a mine safety criminal conspiracy, a judge decided Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Irene Berger sentenced Blankenship to the maximum penalty allowed for his conviction for conspiring to violate federal safety and health laws at Massey’s Upper Big Branch Mine, where 29 workers died in an April 2010 explosion.

Coal Protesters Shot By Police, 4 Killed

April 6, 2016 Samantha Page, www.thinkprogress.org Resist! Bangladesh, Coal, police brutality, Protests, State Violence

By Samantha Page for Think Progress - Bangladeshi police opened fire on a group of protestors Monday, killing at least four, according to local news reports. Thousands of people were charged with assault and vandalism in connection with the demonstration against Chinese-financed coal plants on the country’s southeast coast. “We demand an immediate, full and independent inquiry into yesterday’s events to hold those responsible to account for the unnecessary murder of at least four people,” two Bangladeshi groups, National Committee for Saving the Sundarbans and Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon, said in an emailed statement.

Coal And Gas Investment Fall To Less Than Half Clean Energy

March 27, 2016 Fiona Harvey, www.theguardian.com Create! Climate Change, Coal, Oil and Gas, Renewable Energy

By Fiona Harvey for The Guardian. Global investment in coal and gas-fired power generation plants fell to less than half that in renewable energy generation last year, in a record year for clean energy. It was the first time that renewable energy made up a majority of all the new electricity generation capacity under construction around the world, and the first year in which the financial investment by developing countries in renewables outstripped that of the developed world. Catherine Mitchell, professor of energy policy at the University of Exeter, said the developments were “extremely significant” and showed a new trend. She said: “We are looking at serious sums of money being invested in clean energy, with the dirtiest forms of fossil fuels the losers. This is the direction of travel that we need to see to have a chance of escaping the worst impacts of climate change.”

End Of Coal: Largest US Coal Producer Moving Toward Bankruptcy

March 18, 2016 Jessica DiNapoli, www.reuters.com Resist! Bankruptcy, Coal, Peabody Coal

By Jessica DiNapoli for Reuters - March 16 Peabody Energy Corp, the largest U.S. coal producer, may have to seek bankruptcy protection, the company said in a regulatory filing on Wednesday, citing poor economies in countries that import coal and other factors battering the coal industry. Its shares fell 46 percent to $2.16. Falling demand for coal, tougher environmental controls and cheaper natural gas have pushed several big coal miners, including Arch Coal Inc, into bankruptcy in the past year.

Oregon To Replace Coal With Clean Energy

March 11, 2016 Mary Anne Hitt, www.sierraclub.org Create! Climate Change, Coal, Solar, Wind

By Mary Anne Hitt for the Sierra Club. The “Clean Electricity and Coal Transition Plan", will move Oregon completely off coal by 2030 - including phasing out coal power being imported into the state on the grid - and ensure that most of that power is replaced by clean energy by doubling the state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard to 50 percent by 2040. It was passed with bipartisan support from Republicans and Democrats, and it’s an historic victory for climate and clean energy leadership. Oregon coal plants make of 25 percent of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions. Analysis of the legislation’s expected impact has shown that the plan will reduce carbon pollution across the western states by 30 million metric tons - the equivalent of taking 6.4 million cars off the road. It also includes measures to keep electricity prices affordable and ensure reliable electric service.

CEO Behind Chemical Spill Is Sentenced To Prison

February 21, 2016 Emily Atkin, www.thinkprogress.og Educate! Coal, Criminal Justice, health, Water

By Emily Atkin for Think Progress. West Virginia - The former president of the company that contaminated drinking water for 300,000 West Virginians has been sentenced to one month in prison — the minimum sentence allowed for the crimes at hand. The Charleston Gazette-Mail’s Ken Ward Jr. reported the sentencing of Freedom Industries’ former president Gary Southern on Wednesday. In addition to one month of prison time, Southern was also given a $20,000 fine for charges related to the January 2014 spill. Under federal guidelines, the recommended sentence was 24 to 30 months and a fine of up to $300,000. In August of last year, Southern pled guilty to environmental crimes, including violating a Clean Water Act permit and negligent discharge of a pollutant.

As Coal Goes Bankrupt, They Steal From Workers & Screw Environment

February 18, 2016 Meteor Blades, www.dailykos.com Educate! Coal, Environment, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Meteor Blades for Daily Kos - Much is made of the “war on coal” in some circles, but the war on coal miners is mostly ignored. That war, of course, has been going on for more than a century in various forms. Company “gun-thugs” once battled unions with bullets, and company lawyers fought black lung legislation with pens and lobbying. Later, they did the same with environmental regulations. Today, the battered U.S. coal industry, much of it on the verge of bankruptcy or already over the precipice, is doing what it can to steal workers’ benefits...

Supreme Court Halts Clean Power Plan, Wide Implications

February 11, 2016 John H. Cushman Jr., www.insideclimatenews.org Educate! Coal, Politics, Regulation, Supreme Court

By John H. Cushman Jr. for Inside Climate News - The Supreme Court put on hold the linchpin of President Obama's climate policy, barring the Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday from carrying out the administration's new Clean Power Plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from electric power plants. It was a surprising decision of staggering proportions, with repercussions that go far beyond the U.S. electrical grid, threatening the credibility of the Paris Agreement on climate change reached by the world’s nations in December.

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