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JUNE 11, 2014

Tom coal plant , knowing that its significant air pollution will soon end. Last week the plant's owners, GDF Suez, announced that the plant will cease operations in October 2014. For years members of these groups have been writing letters, holding rallies, protesting, speaking at public hearings, and more to urge the retirement of the plant because of its public health and environmental effects. "The Tom coal plant. "We've

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JUNE 19, 2013

But far from steering this ship in the right direction, World Bank President Dr. Jim Yong Kim is on the verge of overseeing his first deadly new coal plant. Dr. Kim''s new coal plant is a highly controversial project planned in Kosovo which has been described by Kim as a nightmare scenario where Kosovars are ''freezing to death'' because they lack energy. Yes another coal plant that will kill people is needed to avoid more death by freezing.

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Sierra Club Compass

MAY 6, 2013

In justifying its decision to revoke the environmental clearance for a huge 1,050-megawatt coal plant the Indian National Green Tribunal (NGT) described its original approval as 'smacking of non-application of mind.' In fact, if the world moves forward with the massive coal pipeline it has planned, future generations will have much stronger words than these. Chattisgarh along with neighboring Jharkhand makes up the heart of Indian coal country.

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Sierra Club Compass

MAY 29, 2013

It's never too early to shut down coal. Earlier this month, NRG Energy settled a lawsuit that will end coal use six months early at the Portland Generating Station in Portland, Pennsylvania. The company also announced plans to shutter its Titus Station coal-fired plant outside Philadelphia one-and-a-half years early. The two states targeted the coal plant for pollution in a lawsuit, and the announcement of the early closure is a result of the legal settlement.

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Sierra Club Compass

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Prime Minister David Cameron looks like he’s ready to move the UK beyond coal. In his statement at the United Nations Climate Summit in New York City last week, Prime Minister Cameron pledged higher emissions standards for UK’s coal-fired power plants, and his team later tweeted that he plans to phase out existing coal-fired power plants in the UK in the next 10 to 15 years. And this is just the latest in a series of steps away from coal for the UK.

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Sierra Club Compass

JULY 11, 2013

Burstyn Thermal Power Plant, photo courtesy NECU. However, this mission may now include pushing to expand the capacity of an already outdated and deadly Ukrainian coal plant: the Burshtyn power station -- a move that is risky, unnecessary, and would allow the companies involved to skirt EU pollution requirements. Nicole Ghio, Sierra Club International   Coal Health International The U.S.

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Sierra Club Compass

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Locals in Gujarat, on India's western coast, might soon receive the reparations they deserve from the construction of the 4,000-megawatt Tata Mundra coal-fired power plant, which sits dangerously close to their homes and to another massive 4,800 MW coal plant. The team visited the area twice, including several different villages, spoke with local women and experts, and examined the intake and outfall channels of the coal plant.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

India’s king coal is well on its way to being dethroned. First, the World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) refused to finance an expansion of the dirty, destructive Tata Mundra coal-fired power plant back in May. Now it seems Indian courts  have agreed that the wide-reaching effects of this coal project are too controversial to move forward with the proposed expansion. This week didn’t start off any better for Tata or its Mundra coal plant.

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MARCH 20, 2014

I am thrilled for students at the University of Georgia: After more than four years of campaigning, gathering more than 5,000 signatures and 100 faculty endorsements, and a slew of community and campus events, the UGA Beyond Coal Campaign is seeing some serious results. Last week the UGA administration announced that the campus coal boiler will be replaced ! Students at UGA were among the first to bring the Campuses Beyond Coal Campaign to their campus.

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Sierra Club Compass

JULY 16, 2013

EPA, please adopt strong water pollution standards from coal-fired power plants from Kristen E on Vimeo.   The EPA is considering adopting new standards for water pollution coming from coal-fired power plants. Pollution from these plants contributes millions of tons of toxic chemicals into our waterways. Coal Dirty Fuels Safe and Healthy Communities Video

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 29, 2020

Europe just gained its second and third coal-free countries. Sweden and Austria have both shut their last coal-fired plants in late April, joining Belgium in going coal-free in favor of renewable energy sources. “With Sweden going coal-free in the same week as Austria, the downward trajectory of coal in Europe is clear,” Kathrin Gutmann, campaign director for Europe Beyond Coal, told PV Magazine. The plant opened in 1989.

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Sierra Club Compass

JUNE 17, 2013

In March of 2013, Conservation Action Trust, Greenpeace India, and Urban Emissions revealed a shocking death toll from coal-fired power plants in India. They found that 80,000 to 115,000 people die every year from air pollution caused by coal plants. With numbers as high as those, the groups were curious to figure out why coal was killing so many Indians. million deaths from air pollution - has stronger coal plant pollution standards than India.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 7, 2021

Studio Gang transforms coal plant into LEED Silver-targeted student union. Riverfront revitalization and sustainable adaptive reuse combine at the Beloit College Powerhouse, a Studio Gang -designed student union focused on recreation and wellness.

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Sierra Club Compass

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Here''s a post from Nicole Ghio of the Sierra Club International Program: Violence and Intimidation Don''t Stop Indian Activists Fighting Deadly Coal Plant. What would you do if a massive coal plant that would poison your air and water broke ground adjacent to your home? What if friends who attempted to protest the plant disappeared mysteriously? The truth is large, centralized coal projects like Sasan are terrible at addressing energy access.

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AUGUST 8, 2013

In the face of intimidation and human rights abuses by police and government representatives, five villages are standing united against a proposed 2,000 MW coal-fired power plant in Batang, Indonesia. They know that if the plant moves forward, it will destroy their land, their livelihoods, and their health. are opposing proposed new coal plants, these communities are calling for a halt to this coal project.   Coal International

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NOVEMBER 25, 2013

President Obama made a pledge in his Climate Action Plan to lead in the fight against climate disruption when he announced an end to financing for new coal plants overseas. His pledge would end public funds – our taxpayer dollars – flowing to new coal plants except those that deploy carbon capture and sequestration technology (CCS), or are in the world’s poorest countries when there is no other option, and use the most efficient technology. Coal International

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

You say old coal plant, I say new green hydrogen facility Lincoln Bleveans Tue, 11/24/2020 – 01:30 Relics. Good or bad, no one views America’s old coal-fired power plants with indifference. Powering industry, commerce and society, they generated not just electricity but economic ecosystems that stretched far beyond the plants themselves and often served as the mainstay for thriving middle-class communities.

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Sierra Club Compass

JUNE 14, 2013

Every week it seems like yet another small town gets fed up with the coal industry and demands action. This week's fantastic example comes from Eliot, Maine, where Tuesday night residents voted 906 to 560 to ask the Environmental Protection Agency to investigate dangerous sulfur dioxide pollution coming from the Schiller Station coal plant just across the border in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. " -- Mary Anne Hitt, Beyond Coal Campaign Director.

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Sierra Club Compass

JULY 12, 2013

On July 9 at the Naval Support Facility (NSF) Indian Head in Maryland, the Navy said goodbye to the Goddard coal-fired power plant when the aging facility was demolished. Constructed in 1957, the Goddard Power Plant generated steam, compressed air and approximately 67 percent of the electric power used at NSF Indian Head. The demolition of the Goddard coal-fired power plant will save NSF $7.5 "Each year with the current plant,” said Capt.

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Sierra Club Compass

DECEMBER 7, 2012

COP 18: What Negotiators Can Learn from the Qatar Symphony Orchestra » Ex Im Bank: New Dirty, Controversial Coal Plant? taxpayer money as possible to dirty climate destroying coal projects with devastating social and environmental impacts , the U.S. But wait, you say, that doesn't sound like a coal plant. But tucked into the investor agreement is a requirement to construct a new 750 MW coal-fired plant to power the mine after four years.

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Sierra Club Compass

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

The toll coal takes on communities across India is staggering: 100,000 premature deaths annually , a $33 billion "coal-gate" scandal , and financial collapse that is pushing plants to the brink of bankruptcy , but only after families have been forcibly evicted to make way for deadly projects. From the outside, Reliance Energy's 4,000 MW coal-fired power plant, under construction in Singrauli, appears no different than any other risky coal project in the country.

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Sierra Club Compass

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Just one week after a report from Oil Change International revealed how the World Bank Group's International Finance Corporation (IFC) is circumventing the prohibitions on funding for coal plants in the new energy strategy by using development policy loans and financial intermediaries to finance over 40 coal projects in Indonesia , Japan's Electric Power Development Co. (J-Power) Coal Energy Solutions Health International

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Sierra Club Compass

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

After a yearlong investigation, the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO), the independent accountability mechanism at the World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation (IFC), issued a damning report that found serious lapses in the IFC’s $450 million loan for the 4,000-megawatt Tata Mundra coal-fired power plant in Gujarat, India. Coal International Photo credit: BIC.

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Sierra Club Compass

OCTOBER 13, 2014

  For the fourth year in a row , the World Bank’s investments are coal-free. But the real test of the strength of this commitment will come when the bank decides whether or not to fund the Kosovo C coal-fired power plant in Kosovo. Currently, Kosovo relies on two old and extremely dirty coal-fired plants for most of its electricity. One of these plants recently exploded , leaving the country to rely on even more imported energy.

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Sierra Club Compass

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

The following is testimony from Nick Mullins, a former coal miner from Virginia, given Thursday before the Environmental Protection Agency public hearing in Washington, DC, on carbon pollution standards. My name is Nick Mullins and I am a 4th generation former underground coal miner from Southwestern Virginia. The proud heritage of the coal miner has been soiled by the greed of an industry that knows no bounds in its exploitation of decent, hardworking people. 

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Sierra Club Compass

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Automakers Back Call for Fuel Economy Standards » New Ads Highlight World Banks Deadly Coal Plans For Kosovo. Despite the World Bank president Dr. Kims high-profile calls to tackle climate change, the institution continues to barrel forward with its support for a dirty new coal plant in Kosovo. Now, armed with the World Banks own statistics, and some devastating public health advertisements, Kosovar civil society is opening a new front in the battle against coal.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Spirit Bears, Salmon, and Tar Sands Oil Dont Mix » Union of Concerned Scientists Report Finds One-Third of US Coal Plants Ripe For Retirement. coal plants are due for retirement because they are outdated, lack modern pollution controls, and can no longer compete in the marketplace with other forms of energy. This is an incredible amount of coal-fired generators that are being shown as economy uncompetitive with more affordable energy sources like wind power!

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Low natural gas prices have helped to shutter many coal plants. Business Eco Green becomes-more best cleaning products coal-plants consumer products generators-as-clean natural-gas remains-the similar-effect transparencyWatch a similar effect on natural gas generators as clean energy becomes more affordable. Read more from the original source: The risky economics of the new natural gas infrastructure in the United States.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2013

South Florida Citizens Demand Rubio Support Climate Action » Clean Air Measures Will Protect Families, Help Move Arizona Beyond Coal. Toxic air pollution from the Apache, Coronado, and Cholla coal plants kills dozens and hospitalizes hundreds each year. Health expenses linked to these plants surpass $300 million each year. The safeguards will put in place equipment used in more than 200 other coal plants across the U.S. Coal-Director.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2012

COP 18: The Before and the Beginning » New Poll Finds Ratepayers Strongly Oppose Duke Energy Coal Boondoggle. As state regulators prepare to make a major decision on the future of a proposed Indiana coal plant with a $3.5 Duke Energy is expecting its Indiana customers to pay for a new coal plant thats now $1.5 Coal is not cheap no matter how you look at it. Americans know we can do better than coal power. Coal-Director. Compass.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Clean Air Measures Will Protect Families, Help Move Arizona Beyond Coal » Filthy and Over-Budget? A fight over a new coal plant in Mississippi that is heating up this week offers a powerful example of the high cost of coal, both for our wallets and our health. The latest dangerous political theater comes from Mississippi, where MS Power is attempting to build an experimental coal plant ( IGCC ) in Kemper County, Mississippi, along with a huge lignite coal mine.

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Eco Friendly Daily

APRIL 27, 2014

Particles from coal plants in China have been found landing on the West Coast of the United States and the drifting of these particles is a global problem. Now, this does not mean that China can be written off for its practices of allowing poor environmental regulations at its countless coal plants, but before we start slinging mud at China, we should start looking at our own consumer habits. Environment Green News China china coal plants china pollution consumerism

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JUNE 5, 2013

Existing plants are grandfathered into the new standards. Natural gas facilities have the distinct advantage over coal power plants in terms of carbon dioxide emissions. Climate Change coal plants greenhouse gas emissions natural gas Perhaps no topic has aroused such passion and fury on both fronts as climate change. The decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to apply the Clean Air Act to greenhouse gases fueled this debate.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

However expansion of Australia’s exported GHG pollution is occurring through increasing black coal, liquid natural gas (LNG) and dried brown coal exports and increased pollution domestically through new fossil fuel power plants (coal and natural gas). Thus exports of brown coal from Victoria to Asia are expected to reach 20 million tonnes [Mt] per year (74 million tonnes CO2-e). [3]. tonnes C/MWh for major brown coal plants and 0.6-0.9

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APRIL 16, 2012

percent — is accurate, choosing to build a new gas power plant instead of a new coal plant produces immediate greenhouse emissions benefits, and that would be the case even if the leakage rate were nearly a point higher. Replacing old, inefficient coal plants with new natural gas facilities would presumably produce larger benefits. Assuming the Environmental Protection Agency’s estimate of the industry’s methane leakage rate — 2.4

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Environmental Economics

APRIL 16, 2012

percent — is accurate, choosing to build a new gas power plant instead of a new coal plant produces immediate greenhouse emissions benefits, and that would be the case even if the leakage rate were nearly a point higher. Replacing old, inefficient coal plants with new natural gas facilities would presumably produce larger benefits. Assuming the Environmental Protection Agency’s estimate of the industry’s methane leakage rate — 2.4

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A Greener Life

JULY 7, 2021

This means that with costs at these low levels, renewables increasingly undercut existing coal’s operational costs too. IRENA says that low-cost renewables give developed and developing countries a strong business case to power past coal in pursuit of a net-zero economy.

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APRIL 11, 2012

Media Matters : After the EPA proposed regulations on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, several conservative media outlets claimed that the new rule would increase electricity prices for consumers by prohibiting the construction of coal plants without carbon dioxide controls. But economists and other analysts say that because low natural gas prices are already suppressing coal-plant growth, the rule will not significantly affect electricity rates.

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Sierra Club Compass

APRIL 23, 2013

This past Saturday hundreds of tribal leaders, clean energy supporters, and faith leaders from across the southwest joined the Moapa Band of Paiutes for a 16-mile "Coal to Clean Energy Walk." The march came on the heels of NV Energy announcing plans to retire its coal plants and stop drawing power from Arizona''s Navajo Generating Station. NV Energy moving to close the coal plant is the result of countless families coming together to demand change.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

s proposal remain confidential, experts predict that it will include separate standards for carbon dioxide emissions from plants fired by natural gas and by coal. Plants using comparatively clean gas would be permitted to emit perhaps 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour, a ceiling within easy reach using modern technologies. Coal-fired plants, meanwhile, may be allowed to emit as many as 1,400 pounds per megawatt-hour. Shame on you!

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Sierra Club Compass

JULY 23, 2013

Well believe it or not, for decades, power plants have been allowed to dump toxic pollution into our nation''s waterways, with almost no limits. Coal plants have become by far the largest source of toxic water pollution in the country! Click the graphic at the left to see more details) Today the Sierra Club joined a coalition in releasing a report (PDF) that highlights the critical need to clean up power plant water pollution.

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MARCH 11, 2014

That’s why all eyes are now focused on whether Dr. Kim will walk the walk by rejecting a highly controversial new coal plant in the tiny Eastern European country of Kosovo. When it comes to making decisions that test their willingness to build climate legacies, President Obama has the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, and Dr. Kim has a massive coal plant in Kosovo. Coal International

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DECEMBER 20, 2013

Solar and wind generation hit record highs, prices plummeted, and wind and solar took on increased market share from coal. Installation of renewable energy capacity outpaced coal, oil, and nuclear growth combined. The coal industry saw numerous setbacks, and nationwide thirty percent of existing coal plants in the United States are now announced to retire -- 158 plants, representing over 20 percent of the nation’s coal power.

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