Early last week, the final load of coal entered the Navajo Generating Station by train; the electric companies that own the coal plant voted in 2017 to close it, citing lower prices from competitive resources.
Category: Fossil Fuels
Fossil Fuels: Boon and Bane
A tidbit for today from the Writer’s Almanac: On this date in 1859, petroleum was discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania. It’s been called “the most important oil well ever drilled” because it marked the beginning of the modern petroleum age. Petroleum had been …
Don’t Paint All Oil Companies with the Same Brush
Those who blame all oil companies equally for their indifference to climate stability are doing so out of gross ignorance of the real-world goings on. In particular, Shell Oil, headed by Ben van Beurden, is aggressively fashioning its business, with …
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OPEC Fears Climate Campaigners
OPEC warns climate campaigners are “greatest threat to our industry going forward.” The largest oil cartel in the world sits on top of countless trillions of dollars of crude, and understandably, they don’t want that value to fall–for any reason.
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Cuyahoga River Fire: 50 Years Ago Today
The evisceration of the Environmental Protection Agency continues to become even more extreme. It doesn’t help that the EPA is run by a man who’s spent his entire career promoting coal, but it gets far, far worse.
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Coal Kills, So Let’s Welcome It Back
Those who eagerly await the Apocalypse will like this: the latest roll-back of environmental regulations concerning the consumption of coal. Andrew Wheeler (seated), administrator of the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency is shown here repealing the federal law (The Clean …
Part of the Pressure on Coal Is Coming from……Trump Himself
China is the world’s largest consumer of coal; in fact, it consumes almost as much coal as the rest of the world combined–and, in the old days, lots of it had come via imports from the U.S. But what happened …
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Oil Pipeline Metaphor
According to Eugene Kung, lawyer with West Coast Environmental, “The idea of building this [Trans Mountain pipeline] expansion, which essentially locks in production and expansion of the oil sands for the next several decades, is the exact wrong direction we …
Coal: The Good News and the Bad News
While domestic coal consumption is at its lowest in the last 40 years, U.S. coal exports are at a record high. Yes, more than half of all coal plants in the U.S. have closed in the last ten years, but we …
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The Most Powerful Force Working Against Coal Isn’t Concern for Your Health
From this article on the death of coal-fired power plants: (Singapore-based) OCBC Bank, South-east Asia’s second-largest lender, said two Vietnamese coal-fired power plants will be the last it finances as it increases funding for renewable projects. “We won’t do any new …
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