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Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. G7 sets end date for coal CUTTING COAL: The US, UK, Germany and other Group of Seven (G7)…

350.org affiliate 350NH helps close final coal plant in their region & usher in a just transition New Hampshire, U.S. — We could all use some positive climate news. And our friends at 350NH recently helped make some very good…

Welcome to Carbon Brief’s China Briefing. China Briefing handpicks and explains the most important climate and energy stories from China over the past fortnight. Subscribe for free here. China submits WTO…

Sustainability, Vol. 16, Pages 2905: Study on the Influence of Mining Stress on the Sustainable Utilization of Floor Roadway in Qinan Coal Mine Sustainability doi: 10.3390/su16072905 Authors: Yiqi Chen Huaidong Liu Changyou Liu…

Shifting Australia’s electricity sector to low-carbon technologies and closing coal plants is vital to tackling climate change. But such transitions are easier said than done. People and economies are often deeply connected to the…

4.2.1. Extracting Topic Words Based on LDA ModelingPolicy topic richness (i.e., the optimal number of topics) is related to comprehensiveness and is the basis for policy synergy . Through the theme consistency test, the optimal number…

Unions point to hazardous working conditions as major cause of accidents in resource-rich Balochistan.At least 12 miners have been killed in a gas explosion at a coalpit in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan. The explosion…

2.3. Preparation and Characterization of Composite Carbon NanofibersPretreatment of ER: A total of 10.00 g of dried ER with 100 mL of H2O2 solution (30% by volume) was placed in a 500 mL round-bottomed flask and then oxidized at 60 °C…

1. IntroductionCoal resources occupy a dominant position in China’s energy structure , and its demand is huge . With the increasing mining scale and intensity, the problem of coal seam roof water disasters has become increasingly…

5.1. Confining Pressure Effects on Coal Mechanical and AE ParametersBased on the analysis above, it can be observed that the deformation stage of coal samples under different confining pressures exhibit similar basic characteristics.…

5.1. Techno-Economic (TE) Analysis of Thin BrickThe US market size of thin brick is assumed to be 50% of the market size of bricks i.e., USD 184 million , and the scenario in this study is expected to capture approximately 2.5% of the…

1. IntroductionFossil fuels, namely, oil, gas, and coal, have been the main energy sources for several centuries. Currently, more than 8 billion tons of coal are mined in more than 40 countries annually. For power generation, coal has…

1. IntroductionThe objective of the current study is to investigate the lithium (Li) content, enrichment, and binding and leaching characteristics in Greek fly ashes. This investigation aims to contribute to developing efficient Li…

In terms of the key problems we are concerned with in this study, a series of numerical simulations will be conducted. The numerical simulations in this study are based on a numerical code known as RFPA, which is based on the…

Welcome to Carbon Brief’s China Briefing. Carbon Brief handpicks and explains the most important climate and energy stories from China over the past fortnight. Subscribe for free here. No new EU support for…

Settlement Advances EPA’s National Enforcement Priority of Protecting Communities from Coal Ash Contamination February 6, 2024 WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S.…

Washington, DC, Feb. 01, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) issued a Notice of Solicitations of Applications (NOSA) for its POWER (Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic…

Washington, DC, Feb. 01, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) issued a Notice of Solicitations of Applications (NOSA) for its POWER (Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic…

Sutton Lake was one of four N.C. lakes sampled in the new study.  (Credit: Jessica Brandt, Duke Univ.)Note: Jessica Brandt is available for comment at jessica.brandt@duke.edu. Avner Vengosh is available at (919) 681-8050 or…

MILTON, WV – The U.S. Department of Labor obtained a consent judgment and order in federal court requiring the trustees of coal producer Blackjewel LLC’s 401(k) plan to pay $637,014 in equitable restitution after an investigation found…

In-brief analysis January 29, 2024 Data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), January…

In-brief analysis January 22, 2024 Data source: Global Trade Tracker Russia’s reliance on four, mainly Asian,…

1. IntroductionFilm noir, a term belatedly coined by French critics to discuss a trickle of Hollywood crime thrillers in the 1940s, has been extensively studied as a discursive construct, a genre, a mood, or a movement for half a…

During mining, a series of disturbances will occur on the overlying strata, forming caving zones, fractured zones, and bending zones . Separation layers develop above the underground excavations through the uneven subsidence of overlying…

Electricity generation from renewable sources was over 50 percent of the total in 2023 for the first time, while coal's share dropped to 26 percent from 34 percent.…

A wafer containing memristors fabricated with high-quality two-dimensional carbon processed from bituminous Blue Gem coal mined in southeastern Kentucky, two…

Amy Moran-Thomas, the Alfred Henry and Jean Morrison Hayes Career Development Associate Professor of Anthropology at MIT, has been awarded the 2020 Levitan Prize in the Humanities. The $29,500 grant will support…

Credit: Frans van Heerden from Pexels Exposure to fine particulate air pollutants from coal-fired power plants (coal PM2.5) is associated…

Photos showing (a) Denver flotation machine, (b) dried WKY #9 underflow being mixed in DI water, and (c) the floated coal being collected after the addition of the…

In Sylvester, West Virginia, a bulldozer spreads coal mine waste on a coal impoundment dam.Jim West/Alamy I AM writing this column from Lyme Regis on the south coast of England, a place very dear to my broken heart,…

Welcome to Carbon Brief’s China Briefing. Carbon Brief handpicks and explains the most important climate and energy stories from China over the past fortnight. Subscribe for free here. US-China climate deal…

2025 will see final shift away from coal in hospitals and tertiary institutions Over $78 million invested in 38 projects to decarbonise the state sector – the equivalent of taking 21,100 cars off the road Health sector decarbonisation…

As a small child, Manduhai Buyandelger lived with her grandparents in a house unconnected to the heating grid on the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. There, in the world’s coldest capital city, temperatures…

We usually speak of “the energy transition” or “the transition to a low-carbon economy.” But this expression comes short of the actual phenomenon. In fact, we are in the midst of an industrial revolution that is completely shaking up…

  04/12/2020 - After years of steady growth that lifted incomes and living standards, the Czech economy has been hit hard by the COVID-19 crisis and will only recover slowly. Once support to firms and workers has…

  28/06/2021 - Indonesia could become a world leader in clean energy with further reforms to mobilise investment in renewables and energy efficiency, according to a new OECD report.   The OECD Clean Energy…

Some 176 gigawatts of coal capacity was under construction in 2021, and more than half of that was being built in China…

  30/01/2019 -  Australia has made some progress replacing coal with natural gas and renewables in electricity generation yet remains one of the most carbon-intensive OECD countries and one of the few where…

  03/07/2019 - OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría today said governments must face up to mounting anger, particularly among youth, on climate inaction.  In a major speech in Geneva, OECD Secretary-General Angel…

  20/09/2019 - Taxing polluting sources of energy is an effective way to curb emissions that harm the planet and human health, and the income generated can be used to ease the low-carbon transition for vulnerable…

By Adam Vaughan The Keadby 2 gas power station in Lincolnshire, UKdavid soulsby/Alamy Climb the stairs to the roof of the cooling tower at Keadby 2, a new gas power plant in the east of…

Frustrated with the Australian government’s inaction on climate change, software king Mike Cannon-Brookes is trying to buy several…

Recycling rare earth elements from the ash left over from coal burning is cheaper, easier and more environmentally friendly than…

What's all this about a War on Coal? What does it have in common with some other economic wars? What recent changes make the outcome all but certain?After teaching Finance at the graduate and undergraduate level, Ben Reed started and has…

The Rhineland region of Germany has more CO2 pollution than any part of Europe due to its many coal mines. That's why climate activists organized the largest protest against coal production that Germany has ever seen.To find out why we are…

A steel company in central China's Wuhan has been generating a significant amount of its energy needs from solar power instead of coal. Subscribe to us on YouTube: https://goo.gl/lP12gAWatch CGTN Live:…

An astonishing change of heart is becoming apparent. Investors are turning away from fossil fuels. What has caused this? Can it actually be the urgent climate appeals? More Global 3000:

Mark Stultz of Xcel Energy, tells Susan McGinnis about his company's plans to convert its Cherokee power plant, which currently burns coal, to natural gas. Stultz shows Susan an aerial photo of the plant and points out the four coal-burning…

Rally at City Hall in Los Angeles to pressure city leaders to eliminate coal from the city's power supply. LA has a dirty secret: it still gets 40% of its power from (out-of-state) coal, the leading contributor to climate change and cause…

Streamed by a coal activist in Bridgeport, CT at the Bridgeport Harbor Generating Station. Greenpeace activists scaled the coal elevator to demand the aging and dirty coal-fired power plant be shut down. A 40 ft x 20 ft banner reading "Shut…