By Lucas Davis This is the worst year in decades for U.S. coal. During the first six months of 2016, U.S. coal production was down a staggering 28 percent compared to 2015 and down 33 percent compared to 2014. For the first time ever, natural gas overtook coal as the top source of U.S. electricity […]
By Steve Clemmer As a certified energy geek, I always look forward to this time of year. On July 11 and July 12, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) holds their annual conference to discuss current energy technology, market and policy issues and presents results from their new Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) 2016 report. Under EIA’s […]
By Elliott Negin When a handful of attorneys general launched investigations of ExxonMobil for climate fraud, I wonder if they had any idea that they would be attacked for attempting to stifle the company’s right of free speech. After all, if ExxonMobil publicly downplayed warnings by its own scientists about the threat posed by burning […]
By Paul Brown The nuclear industry is celebrating breaking records that have stood for a quarter of a century—but a new update on its successes still fails to disperse the clouds over its future. The nuclear industry provides 10 percent of the world’s electricity, but its target is to supply 25 percent by 2050—requiring a […]
By Zoe Loftus-Farren The Oakland City Council took a strong stand against coal Monday night. Following a long and often emotional city council meeting—during which whistles and cheers were at times met with boos and yelling—the council passed an ordinance prohibiting the storage and handling of coal and petcoke at Oakland facilities and a resolution […]
By Heather Moyer “The Brushy Fork coal sludge impoundment is only one mile above my parents’ home. I better know all I can about it—not that it’ll do much, though,” Junior Walk told me as he drove me through the winding roads around Naoma, West Virginia. A West Virginia native and Coal River Mountain Watch […]
This land is our land—it’s a promise as American as the Constitution. But for decades, Big Coal has treated our public lands as their land, destroying pristine wilderness areas to mine the dirty coal driving climate change. Between 2009 and 2014, companies mined enough coal on public lands to put more than 3.9 billion metric […]
It’s no secret that the fossil fuel industry funds climate denial organizations and pseduo-scientists. Regardless, it’s always nice to have proof that deniers are hired guns. The latest batch of evidence comes from Peabody Energy, the biggest coal company in the U.S. It’s gone bankrupt and the related court documents list those to whom they […]
The UK’s solar panels generated more electricity than coal in May 2016, the first-ever calendar month to pass the milestone, Carbon Brief analysis shows. Solar generated an estimated 1,336 gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity in May, 50 percent more than the 893 GWh output from coal. The finding follows on from Carbon Brief’s earlier analysis showing […]
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