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Asia's coal addiction puts chokehold on its air-polluted cities

Michael Taylor, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Mar 20 09:49 AM

KUALA LUMPUR - Over the past year, the number of patients treated each day in the hospital unit where cardiologist Ade Imasanti Sapardan works in Indonesia's capital has almost doubled to about 100. Read more »

Negros Occidental bans coal-fired power plants

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 06 07:39 PM

MANILA - The province of Negros Occidental is now a coal-free province. Read more »

S&P Global Platts: Coal industry to continue seeing growth in Southeast Asia

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 28 03:01 AM

Despite uncertainties over the U.S.-China trade dispute and a rise in demand for renewable energy, S&P Global Platts sees coal to continue powering Southeast Asia.       Read more »

Germany should phase out coal use by 2038: commission

David Courbet, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 27 10:12 AM

Germany should stop using coal for electricity production by 2038, a government-appointed commission said Saturday, laying out an 80-billion euro roadmap to phase out the polluting fuel.  Read more »

Trump taps former coal lobbyist to lead EPA

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 10 05:35 AM

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday formally nominated Andrew Wheeler, a former coal industry lobbyist, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. Read more »

Renewables overtake coal as Germany's main energy source

Reuters
Posted at Jan 03 10:29 PM

Renewables overtook coal as Germany's main source of energy for the first time last year, accounting for just over 40 percent of electricity production, research showed on Thursday.   Read more »

Oil market likely to rebalance early 2019: OPEC ministers

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 24 08:02 AM

Oil ministers from leading OPEC nations said Sunday they expect prices will arrest their recent slide and rebalance early next year, when a deal on new production cuts takes effect. Read more »

How Germany will turn lights out at last black coal mine

Daphne Rousseau, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 19 01:00 PM

After more than 150 years, Germany's last black coal mine will close in the Ruhr region, posing a gigantic geological and environmental challenge to the former industrial heartland. Read more »

China's unbridled export of coal power imperils climate goals

Marlowe Hood, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 06 08:14 AM

Even as China struggles to curb domestic coal-fired power and the deadly pollution it produces, the world's top carbon emitter is aggressively exporting the same troubled technology to Asia, Africa and the Middle East, an investigation by AFP has shown.   Read more »

OPINION: Stranding coal assets in Southeast Asia

Renato Redentor Constantino
Posted at Dec 04 01:57 AM

Coal is now more expensive than renewable energy – and while this is good news for the climate, it’s bad news for developing countries who have invested in coal. Renato Redentor Constantino looks at how Japan and Korea are divesting, and the IMF’s opinion on stranded assets. Read more »

'No to dirty energy'

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 05 02:01 PM

Members of the Power for People Coalition stage a protest outside the headquarters of the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) in Pasig on Friday. Read more »

Solon proposes construction of more power plants

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 26 03:29 PM

Existing coal-fired power plants were outdated, insufficient and vulnerable to transmission failures that could cause unexpected shutdown of power and thin reserves especially in the Luzon grid, Suarez said in a press briefing. Read more »

Aboitiz Power Corp in talks with Ayala Group's AC Energy for potential deal

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 26 12:38 PM

Aboitiz Power Corp on Monday confirmed it was in talks with Ayala Group’s AC Energy Inc for a potential coal plant asset deal. Read more »

DENR urged to cancel coal projects

Jire Carreon, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 06 07:42 PM

Members of coal-affected communities, electric consumers, climate justice and environmental groups stage a picket-rally in front of the DENR headquarters on Thursday. Read more »

T-rex protest

Jimmy Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 27 03:24 PM

Garbed in T-rex costumes, climate activists criticize the continued use of fossil fuels like coal in the Philippines.  Read more »

Coal spill in La Union

Raffy Lerma, Greenpeace/ Handout
Posted at Jul 25 05:49 PM

Workers clean up the shores of Quirino, Bacnotan in La Union in this photo taken on July 20, 2018, after tons of coal spilled from the nearby cement factory.  Read more »

‘Stop financing coal'

George Calvelo, ABS CBN News
Posted at Jun 28 07:55 PM

Environmental advocates led by the Philippine Movement for Climate Justice (PMCJ) hold a protest action in front of the Sumimoto Mitsui Banking Corporation at the Ayala Triangle Garden in Makati on Thursday. Read more »

Coal comeback spurs new carbon emissions growth, says BP

Ron Bousso, Reuters
Posted at Jun 13 10:00 PM

Global greenhouse gas emissions began rising again last year as the first pick-up in coal burning since 2013 overshadowed a record expansion in renewable energy, a BP report said. Read more »

Big investors urge G7 to step up climate action, shift from coal

Alister Doyle, Reuters
Posted at Jun 04 08:37 AM

Institutional investors with $26 trillion in assets under management called on Group of 7 leaders on Monday to phase out the use of coal in power generation to help limit climate change, despite strong opposition from Washington. Read more »

US coal lobby fights black-lung tax as disease rates surge

Reuters
Posted at Jun 03 03:19 AM

The Black Lung Disability Trust Fund is at risk of insolvency due to soaring debt and a slashing of coal-company contributions through a tax cut scheduled for the end of the year. Read more »