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Coal power becoming ‘uninsurable’ as firms refuse cover
This The Guardian article discusses why coal power is becoming ‘uninsurable’ as firms refuse cover. US insurers join retreat from European insurers meaning coal projects cannot be built or operated.
The number of insurers withdrawing cover for coal projects more than doubled this year and for the first time US […]
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Report: Big Coal Trashed the Climate and Got Away With It
This Rolling Stone article discusses how the coal industry has trashed our world and has gotten away with it. It wasn’t just Big Oil that misled the public for decades.
We have wasted so much time. Despite decades of urgent warnings from scientists about a looming climate crisis, global carbon […]
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Coal and China – 2 articles
This Ozy article discusses why coal is staging a comeback in China. Around the world last year, coal power started to decline: More plants were closed than were built and the globe’s coal power capacity went down by 2.8 gigawatts. But that’s about to change, and it all has to do […]
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Overpowered: In Virginia, Dominion faces challenges to its reign
This article discusses how Dominion Energy is facing challenges to its reign in Virginia.
This is the third of a five-part series exploring oversupply in the power sector and the factors driving a glut of natural gas-fired power plants.
When Dominion Energy Virginia decided in 2012 to […]
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Southern States Split in Response to EPA’s Coal Ash Rule Rollbacks
This article discusses why Southern States Split in Response to EPA’s Coal Ash Rule Rollbacks.
As the Trump administration scales back federal regulation of the waste from coal-fired power plants known as coal ash, a handful of Southern states have passed laws forcing utilities to clean up or contain the toxic mess.
Other […]
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What’s not to like about biomass? Deforestation, pollution and overpriced power.
This Virginia Mercury article discusses incinerators that burn biomass for energy. What’s not to like about biomass? Deforestation, pollution and overpriced power.
What if you could get your electricity from a fuel that destroys forests, produces more air pollution than coal, and is priced higher than alternatives?
“Wow, sign me up!” […]
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Coal Knew, Too
This Huffington Post article discusses how coal companies also new what their impact would be on the world. A newly unearthed journal from 1966 shows the coal industry, like the oil industry, was long aware of the threat of climate change.
In August, Chris Cherry, a professor in the Department […]
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The New Climate Math: The Numbers Keep Getting More Frightening
This Bill McKibben article for Yale Environment 360 discusses how the new climate math is even more scary. Scientists keep raising ever-louder alarms about the urgency of tackling climate change, but the world’s governments aren’t listening. Yet the latest numbers don’t lie: Nations now plan to keep producing more coal, […]
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Report: Fossil fuel production on track for double the safe climate limit
This The Guardian article discusses how fossil fuel production is on track for double the safe climate limit. ‘We’re in a deep hole over the climate crisis and we need to stop digging,’ warn experts.
The world’s nations are on track to produce more than twice as much coal, oil […]
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Climate defenders: The woman helping coal miners to save the planet
This BBC video discusses the woman helping coal miners to save the planet.
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