Non-Renewable Energy
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Thai Enviros Risk Their Lives to Fight Coal Plants, Toxic Dumping
Environmentalists fighting coal plants and toxic dumping in Thailand “have an unfortunate tendency to turn up dead,” Al Jazeera America revealed in a recent ... -
Carbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyClimate Action/"Blockadia"CoalDemand & DistributionElectricity GridHealth & SafetyJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyUnited States
Fighting Coal: Bloomberg Adds $30 Million to Sierra Club Campaign
Ex-New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has added US$30 million to the US$50 million he previously committed to the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign, reinforcing ... -
Carbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyCoalDemand & DistributionElectricity GridJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyRenewable EnergyUnited StatesWind
Clean Power Plan Could Take 60 GW of Fossil Generation Offline
The Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan could take 60 gigawatts of mostly coal-fired generating capacity offline over the next few years, the CEO ... -
Climate & SocietyCoalEnergy SubsidiesInternational Agencies & StudiesNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasRenewable EnergySolarWind
Export Subsidies Vastly Favour Fossil Fuel Technologies Over Renewables
Rich countries spend about five times as much subsidizing exports of fossil fuel technology as they do for renewable energy, according to data obtained ... -
Climate & SocietyEnergy PoliticsJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasShale & FrackingUnited States
U.S. Fossil Fuel Growth in 2014 Was Fastest Since Record-Keeping Began
United States crude oil production grew faster in 2014 than it had since record-keeping began in 1990, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported late ... -
Climate & SocietyCoalFinance & InvestmentMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionNon-Renewable EnergyOil & Gas
Guardian Media Group Divests ‘Compromised’ Fossil Assets
The Guardian Media Group (GMG) is dumping more than £800 million (US$1.2 billion) in coal, oil, and gas investments, explaining that the stocks have ... -
CanadaClimate & SocietyJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyPipelines/Rail TransportTar Sands/Oil SandsWater
BELUGAS 1, ENERGY EAST 0: Pipeline Runs Into Two-Year Delay
TransCanada Corporation has announced a two-year delay in its controversial Energy East project, meaning the pipeline would not begin transporting diluted bitumen from the ... -
Climate & SocietyDrought, Famine & WildfiresFood SecurityJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyShale & FrackingUnited States
California Depletes Groundwater as Megadrought Deepens
With Gov. Jerry Brown allocating $1 billion to water projects and ordering a mandatory 25% reduction in consumption in the midst of a four-year ... -
Climate & SocietyHealth & SafetyJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyPipelines/Rail TransportUnited StatesWater
48,400 Miles of Aging U.S Pipelines ‘Harbour Cracks, Dangerous Defects’
Two years after an ExxonMobil pipeline spilled in Mayflower, Arkansas, the United States still has 48,400 miles of aging pipe “that can harbour cracks ... -
Climate & SocietyCoalEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsJobsJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasShale & FrackingUnited States
Oil and Gas, Coal Post Deep U.S. Job Losses
Low oil prices have led to nearly 100,000 planned layoffs in the United States in the last four months, and more are likely to ... -
Climate & SocietyEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsEuropeJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyNuclearRenewable EnergyWave & Tidal
Welsh Tidal Plant to Deliver Pricing on a Par with Conventional Power
A tidal generating station at Cardiff, Wales is expected to deliver electricity at a cost of £90 to £95 per megawatt-hour, on a par ... -
Climate & SocietyEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsInternational Agencies & StudiesNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasRenewable EnergySolarWind
Citigroup Expects ‘Mature’ Renewables to ‘Shrug Off’ Low Oil Prices
Another major financial institution is confirming that low oil prices will do “little to derail” the rise of renewable energy. -
CanadaChinaClimate & SocietyEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyTar Sands/Oil Sands
China’s Biggest Oil Company Bails on Canada’s Tar Sands/Oil Sands
China’s biggest oil company is abandoning Canada’s tar sands/oil sands in response to crashing global oil prices. -
Funding Woes Sink Tar Sands/Oil Sands Air Monitoring
Funding problems have forced Alberta’s Wood Buffalo Environmental Association to shut down a mobile testing unit that monitored air quality in the area surrounding ... -
A Nice Sip of Fracking Fluids? No Thanks! [Video]
A local farmer successfully silenced pro-fracking members of a Nebraska oil and gas conservation committee by offering them water glasses containing his own “private ...
