News & Articles on Fossil Fuels
Fossil Fuels ares not renewable, obviously. They are listed here for organizational reasons. I don’t write about fossil fuels–as a rule. However, fossil fuels and those who promote them are not going away quietly. Thus, I felt it necessary to include the topic to distinguish articles that are not about nuclear power or renewable energy.
Peabody shares plunge; coal producer raises bankruptcy risk
By
Jessica Dinapoli
Peabody Energy Corp (BTU.N), the largest U.S. coal producer, may have to seek bankruptcy protection, the company said in a regulatory filing on Wednesday, citing poor economies in countries that import coal and other factors battering the coal industry.
Nova Scotia Power’s coal is “drenched in blood”
By
Sarah Wilbur
During his recent tour of the Maritimes, Cuellar described how both Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have unwittingly become complicit in environmental devastation, forced displacement, disappearances and murders in his country due to companies like NSP purchasing coal coming from Colombia.
A Call to Paris Climate Negotiators: Tax Carbon
By
Charles Komanoff
The Carbon Tax Center released a letter signed by 32 notable individuals calling for a carbon tax–from right to left–from Robert Reich to Jerry Taylor (Cato, ALEC) to George Schultz of the Hoover Institute and former Secretary of State under Reagan.
The UK’s energy plan visualized
By
Bernard Chabot
Line up energy sources by unpopularity, and you have the British government’s priorities listed; in other words, the government is doing exactly what the British public don’t want
Britain: Payments to fossil fuel plant now being counted as ‘environmental’ by Treasury
By
Dave Toke
In a move that will astonish many the Treasury have decided to count payments to existing fossil and nuclear power stations for providing capacity as ‘environmental’ levies’.
Austria phases out coal?
By
Craig Morris
Essentially, Austria is simply shutting down plants that are not making money. Two out of three of them happen to be coal-fired.
