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<strong>South Africa Suffers Energy Crisis as Aging Coal Plants Fail</strong>

South Africa Suffers Energy Crisis as Aging Coal Plants Fail

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared a National State of Disaster over the country’s worst-ever rolling blackouts. Many customers have been without power for as much as 12 hours per day to keep aging coal-fired power plants — the backbone of the country’s electricity network — running. Ramaphosa called the power crisis “an existential […]

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    China Broke Records for New Solar Added in 2022

    China Broke Records for New Solar Added in 2022

    China broke records for coal output in 2022, but there’s other energy news from the world’s No. 1 emitting nation that’s a little brighter from a climate perspective.  It also broke records for new solar capacity added last year, according to figures from the National Energy Administration (NEA) published on Wednesday, installing a total of […]

    China’s Coal Output Reached Record Heights in 2022

    China’s Coal Output Reached Record Heights in 2022

    Scientists have said that, in order to limit global heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis, all or almost all of coal burning must cease by 2050.  Yet in 2022, China produced a record amount of coal at 4.496 billion tonnes, which is nine percent […]

    EPA Proposes Stronger Regulation of Soot Pollution

    EPA Proposes Stronger Regulation of Soot Pollution

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Friday a proposed reduction of the allowable annual exposure to industrial soot pollution, and will solicit public comment before making a final decision this year. EPA’s proposal would lower the annual PM2.5 limit from an average of 12 µg/m3 (set in 2012) to somewhere between 9 and 10 […]

    How Major Southeast Utilities Paid Local Media for Favorable Coverage

    How Major Southeast Utilities Paid Local Media for Favorable Coverage

    In Florida and Alabama, powerful utilities have lobbied against the renewable energy transition.  At the same time, they funneled money through consulting firm Matrix LLC to six media sites in the two states that published coverage favorable to the utilities, as NPR and Floodlight revealed in a major investigation Monday. In one instance, the editor-and-chief […]