President Trump's recent executive order could open an area of America's most precious landscapes bigger than Yellowstone to oil drilling and coal mining, write Lawrence Carter & Joe Sandler Clarke. The 27 monuments 'under review' harbour huge volumes of oil, gas and coal: just what's needed to fuel Trump's vision of fossil fuel-led development - never mind the cost to scenery, wildlife, historic sites and indigenous cultures.
Trump's National Monument order could open 2.7 million acres to oil, gas, coal Lawrence Carter Joe Sandler Clarke Greenpeace Energydesk | 12th May 2017 News USA Fossil Fuels Oil Gas Coal Climate …
Coal leases on public lands operated by the US Bureau of Land Management are responsible for 40% of US coal production and 14% of total US CO2 emissions, writes Mike Gaworecki - yet their environmental impacts have not been reviewed in 35 years.
BLM sued - no environmental review of coal leasing since 1979 Mike Gaworecki | 8th December 2014 News Climate Change Law USA Coal Fossil Fuels powder-river-trains-cut.jpg Coal leases on public lands …
Cumbrian campaign group granted permission for judicial review of county council’s approval of coal mine.
New coal subject to 'full legal scrutiny' Staff Reporter | 11th February 2020 News Change Makers Keep Cumbrian Coal In The Hole Coal Energy Emissions Legal Action …
A massive expansion of coal leasing by the US's Bureau of Land Management will release tens of billions of tonnes of carbon to the atmosphere, a new Greenpeace report reveals - completely at odds with President Obama's stated climate objectives.
… to increased coal exports. However, the reviews "fell far short of a comprehensive …
The Paris Agreement is facing its first big test in Queensland, Australia, writes Justine Bell. After a long process beset by legal challenges, the massive Carmichael coal mine is inching closer to approval - which would open up the entire 250,000 sq.km Galilee basin and its 28 billion tonnes of coal to exploitation. Both state and federal governments have the power to ban it. But will they?
After COP21, Australia's moment in history: will it ban the Carmichael coal mine? Justine Bell The University of Queensland | 18th December 2015 News COP21 Climate Change Australia Energy Coal Law …
Scandinanvia's biggest pension fund manager will cut all its investments in 'climate villains', writes Sophie Morlin-Yron - including 40 companies in the coal, tar sands and palm oil sectors.
Norwegian pension giant drops investments in coal, tar sands, palm oil Sophie Morlin-Yron | 30th January 2014 News Finance Fossil Fuels Coal Norway Green Economy Scandinanvia's biggest pension fund …
This intimate relationship between West Cumbria Mining and the quango tasked with delivering a controversial Geological Disposal Facility demands that questions are asked.
Coal and nuclear in Cumbria Staff Reporter | 4th August 2020 News Coal Nuclear Waste Waste Disposal Cumbria Radiation Free Lakeland Keep Cumbrian Coal In The Hole keep_cumbrian_coal_in_the_hole.jpg …
A green coalition has brought a legal challenge against the Treasury for refusing to rein-in the Government-owned RBS bank, which continues to invest in polluting industries
Legal challenge to Treasury over RBS investments The Ecologist | 2nd July 2009 News Investigations Politics And Econonmics High Court Treasury RBS Platform People & Planet World Development Movement …
Overseas aid still being channelled by DFID through the World Bank who is investing record amounts in coal-fired power stations
UK urged to stop funding dirty coal power stations overseas The Ecologist | 10th February 2011 News Aid Climate Change Coal Energy Fossil Fuels coal.jpg Fossil fuel projects supported by the World …
The mighty Asian Development Bank is celebrating its 50th birthday this week in Yokohama, Japan, writes Hemantha Withanage. But the victims of ADB's $3 billion coal funding have little to be glad of - whether local communities impacted by mines and power stations, or people everywhere suffering climate change. ADB must stop financing coal now!
Asian Development Bank must end its 50 year addiction to coal! Hemantha Withanage | 4th May 2017 Comment Finance Fossil Fuels Coal Sri Lanka tata-mundra-cut.jpg The mighty Asian Development Bank is …
We all know that coal and steam vanquished over water power in Britain's - and the world's - industrial revolution, writes Irma Allen. But as Andreas Malm sets out in his fascinating new book, the deciding factors in that victory were the unconstrained mastery over people and nature that coal provided mill owners. And so the model was set for the fossil age that may only now be coming to an end.
… global warming Irma Allen | 27th April 2016 Reviews Books Fossil Fuels Coal Climate Change …
The 1865 Treaty of Point Elliot is clear, writes Jan Hasselman: the Lummi Nation has the right to fish, hunt and gather in their accustomed places in perpetuity - and they can't do that if a gigantic coal terminal is built in the Salish Sea's most productive waters. First Nations' treaty rights are now central to protecting the Pacific Northwest from destruction by fossil fuels.
… have been duking it out over environmental reviews and compliance with laws like the …
Campaigners are celebrating after defeating plans to build America’s largest open pit coal mine, writes Nick Engelfriend. In an epic 'David and Goliath' battle, Montana activists challenged the project, and all the politicians and businessmen that supported it, with fierce opposition, protests and demonstrations. The outcome spells hope for all in the fight against dirty energy.
… Council formally asked that environmental reviews for Otter Creek and the Tongue River …
Germany's 2038 coal deadline Unearthed | 31st January 2019 News Germany Coal x So what has Germany’s coal commission decided? Martin Kaiser from Greenpeace was a member of a 24-person commission …
Community fears for the restoration of the UK’s largest open pit coal mine.
Mine victory for Welsh community Catherine Early | 5th May 2023 | News Coal Climate Change Mining South Wales ffos-y-fran-cut.jpg Community fears for the restoration of the UK’s largest open pit coal …
Westminster and Scottish Parliament declare a climate emergency – but we must make the radical changes needed to keep to 1.5C of warming.
Serious action must follow Andrew Taylor-Dawson | 13th May 2019 News Change Makers Extinction Rebellion Climate Change Activism CO2 Emmissions Scotland Coal Oil Industry Road Building 20725307-1.jpg …
On January 9 thousands of gallons of a toxic chemical used to produce “clean coal”, spilled into Elk River, leaving 300,000 with no water supply. Trish Kahle asks - how could this happen?
… compound" that hasn't received many safety reviews because it has little use in consumer …
The recent U-turn by of some of the UK's leading environmentalists - and one-time nuclear energy opponents - on the issue of nuclear energy, has caused vigourous debate in the media. Their reasoning is that we simply don't have the capacity to produce enough renewable energy to meet our needs. But as this comprehensive Ecologist report from 2007 shows the UK is really a renewable energy powerhouse.
… been nine energy ministers and three energy reviews over the past decade. The end result …
An Ecologist investigation reveals how the largest coal power plant to be awarded UN carbon credit funds is displacing poor communities and destroying forest in India. Luke Starr reports from Madhya Pradesh
UN-backed coal power station linked to deforestation and land grabbing Luke Starr | 29th November 2011 News India Un Carbon Credits Climate Change Deforestation Coal Energy coal1.jpg Campaigners in …
Inconsistent wind is no impediment to the generation of electricity by turbines, three separate reports have concluded, as well as showing that the National Grid is more than able to cope with increased investment in wind energy
Three positive reports hammer home wind message Eifion Rees | 13th July 2009 News Investigations Food And Farming Energy Wind Renewables National Grid Friends Of The Earth Greenpeace RSPB WWF Fossil …
In a potentially devastating blow to the Earth's climate, President Trump's new executive order ends the Interior Department's moratorium on coal mining on public land and begins a repeal of the landmark Clean Power Plan, writes Trip Van Noppen. But this reckless move will not pass unchallenged - the Supreme Court has ruled that the EPA must tackle climate pollution, and clean energy policies can still be defended and advanced at state level.
Executive Order removes climate safeguards - now, the fightback Trip Van Noppen EarthJustice | 29th March 2017 Comment Energy Climate Change Politics USA Fossil Fuels Coal Renewables …