Coal

The Energy Information Administration says coal generation is expected to fall by 25 percent this year, with an 11 percent cut in emissions.

The transition away from coal for electricity generation in the U.S. accelerated in 2020 due to lower gas prices, warmer weather and the economic conditions resulting from COVID-19, analysis found.

Scientists analyzed a core sample taken from the Dasuopu glacier on Shishapangma, the world's 14th highest mountain.

"This is a big deal," said lead scientist James Tour. "The world throws out 30 percent to 40 percent of all food, because it goes bad, and plastic waste is of worldwide concern."

"There is ample evidence over the last decade or more that a strong economy can also be a clean economy—and that the two are not incompatible," said an Environmental Defense Fund policy director.

During a campaign event in New Hampshire, Joe Biden said coal miners should be able to learn to code very easily.

An expert told Newsweek: "This year's growth was slower than last year's. That's a glimmer of good news, but we need emissions to drop, not rise."

The proposed changes to the coal combustion residual rule won't survive the courts, says Betsy Southerland, who wrote the rule in 2015. But it will delay protections for vulnerable communities.

Two sources familiar with the plans told New York Times that changes to rules are expected to roll back limits on "the leaching of dangerous heavy metals like arsenic, lead and mercury."

While an average annual capacity of 5.6 GW was retired each year Obama was in office, 9.6 GW has been retired each year under Trump, Rhodium Group, an independent research firm, told Newsweek.

Murray Energy, the largest privately-owned coal company that employed almost 5,550 people in 2018, filed for bankruptcy Tuesday.

In spite of multiple regulatory breaks received from the Trump administration, the fourth-largest coal company in America, Murray Energy Company, has announced it will be seeking bankruptcy protection.

The Coal Seam Fire—so named because it sits along a coal seam—was set alight during the Plateau Fire, which hit the region in the summer of 2018.

Environmental groups say the decision was purely political and could result in the contamination of water supplies.

Revelation Energy informed workers that the shutdown would last at least two weeks, and possibly longer.

The Trump administration's Affordable Clean Energy rule will keep us on a path toward devastating climate and health consequences.

The Wise Honest was seized in Indonesia earlier this month.

President Donald Trump's 2020 press secretary and a former Obama strategist squared off on Fox News over a Biden and Trump matchup.

The U.S. increased oil consumption last year by around 540,000 barrels a day.

"These ill-informed statements show Trump's allegiance to the fossil fuel industry," one scientist told Newsweek.

"The technology has major environmental ramifications and has the potential to alter the economic and political landscape in many U.S. states."

"He's trying to get their votes. He isn't telling them the truth."

According to the latest U.S. Census Bureau estimates, West Virginia lost about 0.5 percent of its population between July 2017 and July 2018. The United States, meanwhile, gained about the same percentage of people overall.

Local authorities apparently used white sticky paint in an attempt to hide the soot and ash dirtying the snow.

The pro-fossil fuel U.S. event will take place as world leaders work to cap emissions and prevent "catastrophic" global warming.

"The continuation of civilizations and the natural world upon which we depend is in your hands," Attenborough told leaders.

Experts said that Donald Trump's promises to revive coal production were unrealistic.

The Trump administration has revealed its plan to replace former President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan—and it could prove deadly.

"Voters deserve public officials who seek to represent them honestly and fairly."

Pruitt, who resigned as EPA administrator amid a number of scandals, is succeeded by an energy industry lobbyist.