Brown Coal

Representatives of Greece's European creditors focused on energy sector issues this week in talks with the relevant ministry's leadership, namely, allowing private sector entities to the country's lignite production - a state monopoly since the 1950s - and th…

The commissioner for the Green Deal, Frans Timmermans, said on Thursday (23 January) that governments across Europe have the responsibility to look at taxes to ensure a sustainable future and climate-neutrality by 2050. "We need to tax carbon and we need to r…

By Matthew Hoffmann and Steven Bernstein | – Work crews descended on 12 commuter parking lots in Toronto in late November 2018, and headed to the electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. Their work came on the heels of an IPCC report that warned of dire envi…

Updated January 23, 2020 10:54:51 Residents of Sarsfield, north-east of Bairnsdale in eastern Victoria, are concerned about the ongoing threat of carbon monoxide poisoning from an underground peat fire that has been burning in a paddock for almost a month. Key points:Peat fires, which burn underground, can release toxic fumes…

The German government has agreed to a 40bn ($44.38bn) deal to help workers and companies as part of plans to end the use of brown coal power plants by 2038. The deal, which was announced by economic minister Peter Altmaier today, is part of a package of meas…

CoalPublished on January 17th, 2020 | by Steve Hanley 0 January 17th, 2020 by Steve Hanley  Germany has long depended on coal to generate electricity. Unlike the United States, which has turned its back on the commitments it made to the world community i…

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - RWE, Germany's biggest power producer, will cut about 6,000 jobs by 2030, or nearly a third of its current workforce, due to an agreed phase-out of brown coal as an energy source, it said on Thursday. RWE will also receive 2.6 billion e…

By Michael Nienaber and Holger Hansen BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany is set to become the first country to drop both nuclear and coal power under a landmark agreement to compensate workers, companies and regional governments as it switches off brown coal-fired p…

Germany could end electricity generation from coal in 2035, three years earlier than previously planned, under a pact sealed Thursday between Chancellor Angela Merkel and leaders of affected states. Merkel and premiers from Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, North Rhine-…

Frankfurt am Main (AFP) - Germany could end electricity generation from coal in 2035, three years earlier than planned, under a pact sealed Thursday as Chancellor Angela Merkel's government faces growing pressure to take climate action. Merkel and premiers f…