The International Energy Agency (IEA) on Thursday produced a report that found “clean energy” investments have skyrocketed during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, driven by anxiety over volatile fossil fuel prices and the cutoff of oil and gas supplies from Russia.
South Africa is exceeding its goal for cutting greenhouse gas emissions — thanks to regular blackouts that have become a daily feature of life in the country and have become a serious obstacle to economic growth.
China’s love for coal is insatiable. That was the simple, despairing message Monday from climate alarmists Greenpeace as the world’s single largest polluter rushed to embrace fossil fuels in the first quarter of 2023 while ignoring calls (and its own pledges) to reduce emissions.
Forget solar, wind, hydro, and wave power. The capacity to burn coal for electricity generation rose in 2022 despite global promises to phase out the fuel with a defiant China leading the way, a report Wednesday set out.
During an interview with Comedy Central’s “Daily Show” released on Monday, President Joe Biden bragged that his administration is “going faster than anyone’s ever gone” on climate and that he has barred offshore oil drilling, but acknowledged that we will
Britain has been forced to use its emergency coal-fired backup generators for the first time as renewables failed to supply enough energy.
Russia held its position as the largest coal supplier to Germany last year, despite Berlin being on the opposite side of the war in Ukraine.
Chinese state media reported on Thursday that at least five people were killed and 48 are missing after an open-pit coal mine in northern Inner Mongolia collapsed in a landslide.
A coal power plant that was due to shut down last year is among those brought online today to cover a potential shortfall of electricity.
Germany is reportedly considering diverting green agenda cash aimed at reducing coal power to the defence industry, amid the war in Ukraine.
The UK is calm, cloudy, and cold, leaving the National Grid bringing three coal power plants back online to cover the lack of renewables.
Headlines spoke of activist Thunberg detained by German police, but alleged footage has painted a stranger picture of events.
Just a few days after President Joe Biden took a victory lap for “action to get more oil” undertaken by his administration, a cabal of climate change groups complained that U.S. financial institutions continue to fund the fossil fuel industry.
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg was reportedly hauled away from a climate protest on Sunday by German police.
India’s power ministry is projecting an eight-percent surge in coal demand during the next fiscal year after renewables underperformed by nearly 30 percent in 2022, while India’s imports of discounted Russian oil surged by an amazing 33 times year-on-year in December.
A protest attended by Greta Thunberg against the expansion of a German coal mine descended into clashes between demonstrators and police.
China’s trade deficit with Russia tripled in 2022, a report revealed on Friday, thanks in part to skyrocketing energy prices that made Russia’s discounted oil and gas irresistible to Chinese buyers.
Hundreds of climate activists clashed with police at an abandoned village in Germany that is due to be cleared for a coal mine expansion.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) published a report on Friday that found coal use surging around the world, with the United States and India leading the pack in 2021 at 15 percent and 14 percent growth in coal consumption, respectively.
Global use of coal climbed to a record high as the energy crisis in Europe saw some supposedly ‘green’ countries forced to burn coal.
Brexit champion Nigel Farage has slammed to green-obsessed “idiots” running the country as the National Grid warms up two coal-fired reserve power plants in case of shortages.
Britain’s National Grid has announced it is firing up two coal-fired reserve power plants as a winter snap and lack of wind leave the country facing blackouts amid a general energy crisis.
Environmental groups on Wednesday welcomed a decision by Britain´s Conservative government to lift its opposition to onshore wind farms.
Leftist government plans to see Germany go green have been utterly destroyed by ongoing Russian energy shortages.
A report released by Peking University this week found that China is at least five years behind its ostensible goal of reaching “peak carbon emissions” by 2030. In other words, it will be at least 2035 before China’s emissions stop increasing.
Czechs turning to fuel once considered obsolete as they seek a cheaper option to natural gas, whose prices have surged.
Biden personally thanked the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero for working on the project, praising “my friend” Mike Bloomberg who serves as the cochair of the organization.
The Chinese delegation to the COP27 climate change conference in Egypt demanded a leadership role on Tuesday, despite China being far and away the worst polluter in the world, and its most voracious consumer of carbon-spewing coal power.
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” Senate Republican Conference Chair Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) reacted to President Joe Biden’s vow to shut down coal plants by stating that the Biden administration has done real economic damage while
On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” CNN Political Commentator and former Obama administration official Van Jones reacted to President Joe Biden’s vow to shut down coal plants, which received strong pushback from Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) by pointing out that
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s running mate and lieutenant governor, Garlin Gilchrist, told a weekend campaign rally state Democrats want to “strengthen” their state’s “response to the climate crisis” and “close more coal plants.”
During his speech in San Diego about promoting clean energy, Biden could not have been more clear about his desire to shut down coal-fired power plants.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) blasted Joe Biden on Saturday regarding the president’s recent pledge to shut down the U.S. coal industry.
China’s already prodigious coal output will be increased even further to brace for the coming winter, without the slightest concern for what climate change activists think about all that dirty carbon burning, according to a report by the state-run Global Times on Wednesday.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro devoted much of his speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday to call for an end to the United States’s “war on drugs” while denouncing the consumption of “poisonous” coal and oil.
While the rest of the industrialized world tells its citizens to prepare for a lower-energy, more difficult, but more “green” future, China continues to power its factories and megacities by gleefully burning gigantic amounts of coal. On Monday, China and Mongolia announced the launch of a new 145-mile rail line that will haul coal from Mongolia’s Tavan Tolgoi field across the border to hungry Chinese factories.
The electric vehicle of an unfortunate Washington, DC, tourist ran out of battery in the middle of a remote West Virginia road on Friday. Thankfully, a few unlikely good Samaritans were nearby to rescue the stranded traveler.
Boris Johnson had committed to ending all coal burning in the UK by 2024, but the next government would not be bound by such promise.
China’s state-run Global Times on Friday harangued America and Europe for using coal power to make up for electricity shortfalls – even though China is building coal plants with wild abandon, digging up and importing mountains of coal to fuel them, and making it very clear that China’s industrial goals will not be compromised in any way to satisfy climate activists.
Greenpeace East Asia published a report on Monday that found China’s most affluent cities and provinces are dramatically increasing their investments in fossil fuel projects, leaving climate activists flummoxed over China’s refusal to deliver on its “energy transition” promises.
