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News Articles: coal

Front end loaders are dwarfed by the coal field at Georgia Power's Plant Scherer.

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  • Environment

Three Georgia power plants land on list of nation’s dirtiest

The dirtiest power plants have an outsized impact: In 2020, the 10 most climate-polluting plants in Georgia were responsible for 91.5% of global warming emissions from the power sector despite only generating 56.5% of total electricity, according to the report.

June 21, 2022
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By:
  • Dave Williams
Traffic on a hazy evening in Fresno, Calif. A new study estimates that about 50,000 lives could be saved each year if the U.S. eliminated small particles of pollution that are released from the tailpipes of cars and trucks, among other sources.

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  • Climate

Eliminating fossil fuel air pollution would save about 50,000 lives, study finds

Burning oil, coal and other fossil fuels releases plumes of tiny, dangerous particles. A new study estimates that eliminating that pollution would save about 50,000 lives in the U.S. each year.

May 17, 2022
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By:
  • Rebecca Hersher
Smoke and steam rise from towers at the coal-fired Urumqi Thermal Power Plant as seen from a plane in Urumqi in western China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on April 21, 2021.

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  • Asia

China promotes coal in setback for efforts to cut emissions

Officials in the country face political pressure to ensure stability as President Xi Jinping prepares to try and award himself a third five-year term as ruling party leader.

April 25, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
For one day in March, wind generated electricity surpassed coal and nuclear, and became second only to natural gas.

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  • Energy

For the first time, wind power eclipsed both coal and nuclear in the U.S.

For a single day at the end of March, wind was the second-largest source of electricity generation, the Energy Information Administration says. Natural gas is still the nation's largest power source.

April 14, 2022
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By:
  • Deepa Shivaram
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice gives his State of the State speech in the House Chambers in January.

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  • National

Coal-dependent West Virginia eliminates ban on nuclear power

The state's ban on nuclear plants was enacted in 1996, but nuclear power has gained support as a tool to keep climate change under control and other states are transitioning away from fossil fuels.

February 08, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Plant Scherer in Juliette

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  • Energy

State coal ash cleanup process unsettled after new federal EPA directive

Georgia’s top environmental regulator says his agency is adjusting to what he called the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s “new interpretation” of an Obama-era coal ash disposal rule.

January 31, 2022
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  • Jill Nolin
A bulldozer loads coal onto railway wagons at the Jharia coalfield in Dhanbad in India's Jharkhand state.

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  • World

India pledges net-zero emissions by 2070 — but also wants to expand coal mining

Prime Minister Narendra Modi told COP26 that India, the world's third-biggest carbon emitter, would go net-zero by 2070. But appetite for coal, which supplies 70% of India's power, remains high.

November 04, 2021
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  • Lauren Frayer
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a news conference at the U.N. Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, on Tuesday.

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  • World

The U.K. considers its 1st new coal mine in decades even as it calls to phase out coal

A town in northern England wants to open a coking coal mine to create jobs. But while hosting the U.N. climate summit, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is urging countries to slash greenhouse gases.

November 04, 2021
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  • Frank Langfitt
A coal-hauling truck with 240 tons of coal drives to the surface at the Buckskin Coal Mine in Gillette, Wyo., in 2004.

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  • Climate

U.S. coal production is up sharply after hitting a 50-year low last year

As the Biden administration prepares to negotiate reductions in fossil fuel use at the Glasgow climate summit at the end of the month, U.S. coal production is actually up significantly this year.

October 22, 2021
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By:
  • Kayla Desroches
A man uses his smartphone flashlight to light up his bowl of noodles as he eats breakfast at a restaurant during a blackout in Shenyang, in northeastern China's Liaoning province, Wednesday. People ate breakfast by flashlight and shopkeepers used portable generators as power cuts imposed to meet official conservation goals disrupted manufacturing and daily life.

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  • Asia

Why China has to ration electricity and how that could affect everyone

China has more than enough capacity to generate energy. Here's why it is having to ration power, causing effects for consumers and supply chains around the world.

October 01, 2021
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  • Emily Feng
China says it will stop financing new coal-fired power plants in other countries, but coal use is expected to keeping rising within its borders.

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  • Climate

Ahead Of Climate Talks, China Vows To Stop Building Coal Power Plants Abroad

The announcement provides needed momentum for global climate change negotiations in November, but coal power is expected to keep growing within China itself.

September 22, 2021
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  • Lauren Sommer
The Bagger 288, a bucket-wheel excavator, digs into the beet fields behind the farm of Norbert Winzen to expand Germany's Garzweiler coal mine, one of Europe's largest open-pit mines. Winzen's family is fighting coal mine operator RWE in an effort to save their village of Keyenberg, which is more than a thousand years old.

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  • Environment

A Coal-Mining 'Monster' Is Threatening To Swallow A Small Town In Germany

The thousand-year-old farming village of Keyenberg lies in the path of an expanding open-pit mine. Fighting to save the town is about more than Keyenberg. It's also about climate change.

June 29, 2021
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  • Rob Schmitz
The Xinyuan Coal Mine operated by Yangquan Coal Industry Group Co. in Jinzhong, Shanxi province, in October.

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  • World

China Wants To Go Carbon-Neutral — And Won't Stop Burning Coal To Get There

This year, China pledged to go carbon-neutral by 2060. It has invested heavily in solar, wind and nuclear energy. Still, coal-fired heavy industry made up 37% of its economic activity last year.

June 15, 2021
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  • Emily Feng
Gloria Hammond says Georgia Power first asked to buy her home near the coal ash pond at the utility's Plant Scherer not long after her husband, Cason, was diagnosed with terminal cancer.

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  • Book News & Features

How One Town's Life With Coal Ash Inspired A Georgia Bill

Gloria Hammond remembers the day the man from Georgia Power came to talk about buying the home she shared with her husband Cason. They were just back...

January 29, 2020
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  • Grant Blankenship and
  • Grant Blankenship
Georgia Power's Plant Scherer with the coal ash pond, foreground, where residuals from burning coal at the plant are stored. The pond goes to depths of 80 feet in some places and comes into contact with groundwater.

Report: Toxic Coal Ash Is Submerged In Groundwater

A report from leading environmental advocates in Georgia describes how the toxins left over from burning coal for power are being stored by Georgia...

August 07, 2019
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  • Grant Blankenship
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