The United Kingdom’s grid operator just announced an incredible prediction—April 21 is probably going to be the country’s first coal-free day since the Industrial Revolution. “Great Britain has never had a continuous 24 hour period without #coal. Today is looking like it could be the first,” according to a tweet from the National Grid’s Electricity […]
This week, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which operates more than 200 million acres of public land, made a statement by changing the banner image on their website from a vast mountain range to a massive coal seam in Wyoming—staking an obvious claim in the Trump administration‘s campaign to bring coal and other industry […]
Despite President Trump’s promise last week at a Kentucky rally that “a lot of coal miners are going back to work” as a result of his executive order, most experts, analysts and even coal industry executives caution that the administration’s moves to roll back the Clean Power Plan may do little to help bring back […]
President Trump will travel to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today at 2 p.m. to sign a broad executive order that will take aim at key Obama-era climate policies, setting the stage for several extended energy fights in the months and years to come. Ordering a review and rewrite of the Clean Power Plan is […]
By Fossil Free Penn At 9 a.m. today, 33 students at the University of Pennsylvania entered College Hall, sleeping bags in tow, to sit in with two demands. These demands were: 1. The immediate divestment of the University’s endowment from all companies involved with the extraction of coal and tar sands. 2. The establishment and […]
By Pam Eaton The Trump administration is desperate to give another gift to the fossil fuel industry—and using every trick in the book to do it. Last week, the administration asked a court to stop a rule designed to ensure taxpayers get a fair return from oil, gas and coal sold from mines and wells […]
The global coal boom took a nosedive in 2016 as construction starts on coal-fired power plants fell to nearly two-thirds of 2015 levels, according to a report, from Coalswarm, Sierra Club and Greenpeace. “Markets are demanding clean energy, and no amount of rhetoric from Donald Trump will be able to stop the fall of coal […]
Speaking at a rally in Kentucky Monday night, President Trump told the crowd his administration is “preparing new executive actions to save our coal industry and to save our wonderful coal miners from continuing to be put out of work.” https://twitter.com/SierraClub/status/843818504801439744 expand=1] The president also promised to “turn the EPA from a job-killer into a […]
Germany is embarking on an innovative project to turn a hard coal mine into a giant battery that can store surplus solar and wind energy and release it when supplies are lean. The Prosper-Haniel coal mine in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia will be converted into a 200 megawatt pumped-storage hydroelectric reservoir that acts […]
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