Coal may have fallen out of favor in North America and Europe, but India and other Asian nations ensure the dirtiest fossil fuel continues as energy supply.
Newcastle, the world’s largest coal export port, must “urgently” diversify its traffic, the port’s incoming chairman has said, warning that the “long-term outlook for coal is a threat to the port”.
Creation of digital bitcoins by computer networks has real-world consequences in form of massive energy use, including fuels that cause most pollution.
The Indian Captive Power Producers Association denounced that most of its member companies are getting half of the coal they need from state-owned Coal India.
A U.S. federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a lower-court ruling keeping a ban on uranium mining around the Grand Canyon, but also upheld a separate decision allowing a uranium mine nearby to open.