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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia’s dormant carbon capture and storage projects may gain some momentum after BP Plc and Santos said they would join up on a pending site as world’s largest coal and liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporting country steps up its climate change fight. FILE PHOTO: BP's logo at…

Steam billowing from Drax power station near Selby Englanddebstheleo | iStock | Getty ImagesCoal-fired electricity production at the U.K.'s largest power plant is expected to end in March 2021, energy firm Drax said Thursday, with the move leading to between 200 and 230 job losses.Drax Power Station — which is…

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The Datteln power station is controversial because it is slated to come online just after Berlin agreed a long-term plan to exit coal-fired power by 2038 as part of a drive to reduce greenhouse gas emissions Published 5:14 PM, February 25, 2020 Updated 12:29 AM, February 26, 2020 PROTESTING COAL…

News / 22 February 2020, 5:17pm / Sheree BegaFILE - In this Tuesday, June 5, 2018 file photo, steam rises in the air from the brown coal power plant Schwarze Pumpe in the Lusatia, (Lausitz) area in Germany. Germany's greenhouse gas emissions fell sharply last year, putting the country's 2020 climate goal within reach…

War correspondent Gwynne Dyer says they should worry more about carbon and climate change.Gwynne Dyer, who usually is known for his books and articles about war and conflict, writes about a different kind of war that's taking place in Germany and Japan, what he calls the War on Rationality. That's…

LONDON – Germany and Japan are finally winning a war together. Unfortunately, it is the war on rationality.Coal, as everybody knows, is by far the most damaging source of energy we use, in terms of both the harm to human beings and the impact on the climate. It’s twice as…

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Germany and Japan are finally winning a war together. Unfortunately, it is the War on Rationality.Coal, as everybody knows, is by far the most damaging source of energy we use, in terms of both the harm to human beings and the impact on the climate. It's twice as bad as…

Updated February 19, 2020 10:00:03 Deep underground in Germany's Ruhr valley, Uwe Seeger plunges a drill into the black earth just as thousands of coal miners in this region have done before him. "My grandpa did it like this, we used it like this to destroy the big stones," he…