The Supreme Court decision is only the latest blow to coal. Also on Tuesday, a Federal District Court ordered the E.P.A. to propose by Dec. 1 a new nationwide regulation to rein in smog pollution ...Web

The controversial Rocky Hill coalmine in the Hunter Valley will not go ahead after a landmark ruling in the land and environment court on Friday that cited the impact it would have had on climate ...Web

United Nations climate negotiators on Wednesday declared the world must transition away from oil, gas and coal, a significant decision by nearly 200 countries in nearly 30 years of climate talks.Web

The US was one of several countries to join an alliance to phase out power plants that burn coal and has announced rules to cut its methane emissions. Fifty oil and gas companies have signed a ...Web

Alabama Power had asked the court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Mobile Baykeeper last year challenging Alabama Power's plan to close the 597-acre coal ash pond at the James M. Barry Electric ...Web

The Bull Run facility covers 750 acres along the north bank of Bull Run Creek and adjacent to the Clinch River in Anderson County. The facility is capable of producing 889 megawatts of energy, or ...Web

TVA met its goal of retiring the Bull Run Fossil Plant by Dec. 1, 2023, and said the plant "finished strong" with a 48-day continuous run to burn its last remaining coal. Its recent summer net ...Web

The report identifies a range of effects where better analysis would meaningfully improve government decision making, including: wildfires and extreme weather; the effects of public benefit ...Web

The state Supreme Court has ordered the N.C. Utilities Commission to reconsider two 2018 rulings on $675M in coal-ash costs for Duke Energy utilities. But only three of the current seven board ...Web

Olyphant. A half-hour north, near the town of Olyphant, a 15-acre fire in an underground coal mine vents a rotten egg smell through crevices and pipes. It has been burning for 17 years. After ...Web

Alabama Power's plans to cap a pond full of coal dust threatens nearby Mobile Bay. ... But that decision came only after disaster in which 39,000 tons of the toxic waste poured into a river system ...Web

DUBAI, Dec 13 (Reuters) - The COP28 Presidency released a proposed text of a final climate deal on Wednesday that would, for the first time, push nations to transition away from fossil fuels to ...Web

Australia is the world's no.2 exporter of coal used in power generation, in terms of export volume. The original ruling, which related to approval of a coal mine extension in the state of New ...Web

An annotated satellite image shows the location of Plant Barry relative to the Mobile River, the Mobile–Tensaw Delta, the city of Mobile and Mobile Bay. Plant Barry's coal ash pond is located ...Web

Moore called out Alabama Power for its decision to keep the toxic byproduct of burning coal in a pit near the Mobile River instead of trucking it away to a far-away site where it could be...Web

COP28 had been scheduled to close on Tuesday, but intense overnight negotiations on whether the outcome would include a call to "phase down" or "phase out" planet heating fossil fuels like oil, gas and …Web

In the final days of COP28, the decision related to coal has seen several iterations. The final decision "calls on" parties to contribute to global efforts in "accelerating efforts towards the phase-down of unabated coal power" (paragraph 28b, FCCC/PA/CMA/2023/L.17 ).Web

In 2016, the Oakland City Council approved an ordinance banning the handling and storage of coal within Oakland. The developers sued in federal court and won a ruling in 2018 that barred the city from applying its coal ban to the terminal project. During those two years, the two parties continued to work together on the development of the …Web

1 Decision 1/CP.27, paras. 58 and 59. 2 Page. Note that all numbers of signatories or members to the initiatives and declarations reflect ... organizations, launched the Coal …Web

Half of the Mobile Planning Commission approved Walter Energy's Blue Creek Coal Terminal during a lengthy meeting on March 20. The 4-2 vote brings Mobile's second coal processing facility closerWeb

The new mining territory contains 2 billion tons of coal, that when combusted, would produce 3.3 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide, equivalent to the emissions 1,000 coal-burning power plants ...Web

Construction has started on the Adani coal site – one of the most controversial fossil fuel projects in Australia's history. ... The decision to break ties with the Adani project was related ...Web

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday dealt a major blow to the Environmental Protection Agency's power to regulate carbon emissions that cause climate change. The decision by the conservative court ...Web

No coal ash: Pickens County settles landfill lawsuit, will loan $3 million for completion. Pickens County officials said they have completed a settlement that will keep coal ash out of a 400-acre ...Web

Replacing coal with gas at Cumberland. Under Lyash's decision-making, TVA took steps toward replacing one of Cumberland's two aging coal-fired units with a combined cycle natural gas plant ...Web

The proposed Rocky Hill Coal Project aimed to produce 21 million tonnes of coal over a period of 16 years. The court determined the project was not in the public interest after weighing the social and environmental costs of the project, including an extended consideration of how the project would worsen climate change.Web

The decision marks a further shift away from coal for Kentucky's largest utility, but at a slower pace of transition than LG&E would have liked. That delay is driven, at least in part, by a new ...Web

Half of the Mobile Planning Commission approved Walter Energy's Blue Creek Coal Terminal during a lengthy meeting on March 20. The 4-2 vote brings …Web

Published 5:00 PM PST, September 26, 2022. MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — A coastal environmental group filed suit Monday trying to block a decision by Alabama Power Co. to leave millions of tons of coal ash along a riverside in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta, where opponents say a spill could devastate a huge ecosystem. The federal lawsuit by Mobile …Web

On November 25, 2022, the Land Court of Queensland issued a decision in a case in which a First Nations-led group of young people from across the state, who had formed an entity called Youth Verdict, along with other interested parties, challenged a proposed coal mining project on the grounds that it would adversely affect … …Web

The Powder River Basin produces the most coal of any region in the United States. Trains transport coal daily from the Basin to continental coal -fired generating stations and to Pacific Northwest coal export terminals. The Basin comprises millions of acres of land in northeast Wyoming and southeast Montana. It is home to relatively few …Web

Pete Burns talks to the media after the Mobile City Council voted 4-2 on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016, against an appeal of a Planning Commission decision to allow a company on the city's waterfront to ...Web

COP28 had been scheduled to close on Tuesday, but intense overnight negotiations on whether the outcome would include a call to "phase down" or "phase out" planet heating fossil fuels like oil, gas and coal forced the conference into overtime.. This is the main sticking point that pit activists and climate-vulnerable countries against some …Web

Germany's decision to restart old coal plants rather than extend the life of its nuclear power facilities reflects a failure of environmental priorities. The cooling towers of a nuclear power ...Web

The 3-2 decision by the elected regulators left APS with $119 million less in annual revenue from its base rates, a lower return on equity and other cuts that the company said were not lawful.Web

In the recent decision of Waratah Coal Pty Ltd v Youth Verdict Ltd & Ors (No 6) [2022] QLC 21, President Kingham of the Land Court of Queensland recommended refusal of applications by Waratah Coal Pty Ltd for a mining lease and an environmental authority in relation to a proposed thermal coal mine in the Galilee Basin.Web