Articles for Coal Companies

Betty Jean Hall, advocate who paved the way for women to enter coal mining workforce, dies at 78
4 months ago

Betty Jean Hall, advocate who paved the way for women to enter coal mining workforce, dies at 78

Associated Press  

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Betty Jean Hall, an Appalachian attorney and federal administrative judge who paved the way for women to enter the coal mining workforce, has died. Retired journalist and financial professional Jim Branscome, who maintained a close friendship with Hall decades after they were freshmen debate partners at Berea College, said she and Coal Employment Project were so successful …

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Adani Group flags 'renewed' attempts to 'financially destabilise' conglomerate, names British newspaper, George Soros
1 year, 2 months ago

Adani Group flags 'renewed' attempts to 'financially destabilise' conglomerate, names British newspaper, George Soros

Hindustan Times  

Adani Group on Monday flagged what it called "renewed" attempts by the British newspaper Financial Times to "rehash old and baseless allegations" against the conglomerate. McCrum and John Reed, on the said date, reported that two men allegedly linked to Gautam Adani's brother Vinod Adani were using Bermuda's Global Opportunities Fund "to amass and trade large positions in shares of …

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Oregon county sues oil, coal companies for $51 billion over deadly heat dome
1 year, 6 months ago

Oregon county sues oil, coal companies for $51 billion over deadly heat dome

Associated Press  

PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon’s most populous county is suing more than a dozen large fossil fuel companies to recover costs related to extreme weather events linked to climate change. The lawsuit filed Thursday in Multnomah County Circuit Court alleges the combined carbon pollution the companies emitted was a substantial factor in causing and exacerbating a 2021 heat dome that killed …

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Queensland budget 2023: Winners and losers
1 year, 6 months ago

Queensland budget 2023: Winners and losers

ABC  

Powered by a windfall of coal and oil royalties, the Queensland budget for 2023/24 has seen cash splashed across a number of areas. "The strength of this year's budget gives us the ability to make the investments necessary to ensure Queensland's continued prosperity," Mr Dick said in his budget speech. Some other cost-of-living measures include: $670.5 million towards the Government …

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Coalmines pollute much more than their operators predicted when they sought approval
1 year, 6 months ago

Coalmines pollute much more than their operators predicted when they sought approval

ABC  

Whitehaven Coal's underground mine in northern NSW is polluting the atmosphere with more than three times the direct greenhouse gas emissions it forecast it would emit when it received environmental approval in 2015. Despite the coal extraction increasing by more than 50 per cent on average, Whitehaven produced new estimates that predicted the mine's emissions would halve — a forecast …

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Adani credit facilities expose collateral web full of red flags
1 year, 10 months ago

Adani credit facilities expose collateral web full of red flags

Live Mint  

Financing arrangements across the Adani Group conglomerate have sent a fresh chill through ESG markets as investors wake up to a new risk. A Feb. 10 public filing has since made clear that Adani is using stock from its Green companies as collateral in a credit facility that’s helping to finance the Carmichael coal mine in Australia, via Adani Enterprises …

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Supreme Court Conservatives Poised To Halt Biden Administration’s Climate Regulations
2 years, 9 months ago

Supreme Court Conservatives Poised To Halt Biden Administration’s Climate Regulations

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING On the same day a United Nations report found that the impacts of climate change will be even worse than we previously thought, the Supreme Court heard arguments that could significantly tie the hands of the Biden administration from doing anything about it. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar argued that the major questions doctrine should not only not …

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Banks And Investors Are Still Pouring Billions Into Coal Companies
3 years, 9 months ago

Banks And Investors Are Still Pouring Billions Into Coal Companies

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Coal is the number-one single source for increasing global temperatures, with coal-fired electricity generation accounting for 30% of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions. “This is the first time anyone has attempted to analyze commercial banks’ and institutional investors’ exposure to the entire coal industry,” said Katrin Ganswindt, the head of financial research at Urgewald. For these funds, …

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The World’s Long, Messy Breakup With Coal
3 years, 10 months ago

The World’s Long, Messy Breakup With Coal

Huff Post  

Coal had a bad year last year. Despite countries’ pledges to slash carbon emissions to tackle climate change, coal is still playing an important role for a handful of countries, notably China, and new coal projects are lined up around the globe. Back in May 2019, the United Nations chief António Guterres said: “We must stop building new coal plants …

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Jharkhand to Get Rs 18,889 Crore from Coal Mined by CIL in Next 4 Years: Govt
4 years, 4 months ago

Jharkhand to Get Rs 18,889 Crore from Coal Mined by CIL in Next 4 Years: Govt

News 18  

Jharkhand is likely to get revenues of around Rs 18,889 crore from the 742 million tonnes of coal expected to be mined out by CIL in the state over the next four years, Coal Minister Pralhad Joshi said on Thursday. "Coal companies - CCL, BCCL and ECL are expected to mine out 742 million tonne of coal in the next …

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