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Authorities will seek to cap imports at, or even below, last year’s level of 281 million tonnes.

Move is part of an ambitious plan announced by the country's President in early June.

While the US coal industry has been for years losing ground to renewables, they overtook the fossil fuel for the first time ever in April.

It will invest again in miners Rio Tinto and Nutrien, as well as in retailer Walmart after their exclusions from the fund's investments on ethical grounds were revoked.

German utility RWE AG is reviewing damage done by environmental campaigners who accessed the company’s Garzweiler open-pit mine in Germany’s Rhineland on Saturday.

U.S. energy use has been generally increasing, eventually topping 100 quads per year by 2018.

Company already has around 60 workers onsite, surveying and clearing for access to project's location.

The EU has warned that any future membership hinges on whether local authorities clean up their act.

The final approval from the NSW state government follows a surprise victory for the pro-coal conservative government in an Australian election in which climate change had been a key issue.