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Chinese state media announced on Wednesday that coal production will be increased by a whopping 300 million tons in 2022 to “ensure energy supplies,” making a mockery of Beijing’s breezy promises to climate change activists.

The European Union is poised to ban Russian coal in the first sanctions on the vital energy industry over the war in Ukraine.

The United States, United Kingdom and the European Union were set Wednesday to impose new punishing sanctions targeting Russia.

A pair of German climate protesters who blocked entry to a major Australian seaport have been arrested, had their visas canceled and on Thursday were being readied for immediate deportation after a court appearance.

The pain of soaring gas prices must be endured because any wider embrace of fossil fuels as an alternative is “madness” and threatens global climate targets, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres cautioned Monday.

Germany is considering reopening some of its decommissioned coal power plants in the hopes of getting a handle on its ongoing energy crisis.

The global bank of Credit Suisse in the last two years has defunded the oil, gas, and coal industries by 41 percent due to Democrat-pushed theories of global warming. 

The website oilprice.com posted an analysis about how the push for green energy years before Russia invaded Ukraine – and on steroids since Joe Biden became president – is to blame for soaring oil prices and foreign policy weakness.

The governments of China and Russia are developing an agreement that would see Beijing purchase 100 million metric tons of coal from Moscow, the Kremlin announced on Friday.

Liu Youbin, a spokesman for China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment, on Monday promised “administrative measures” would be taken to clean up the heavy cloud of smog that has descended over the city of Beijing on the eve of the 2022 Winter Olympics.

On Monday’s edition of Peacock TV channel The Choice’s “Zerlina,” Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) discussed Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) opposition to the Build Back Better reconciliation bill and stated that people in West Virginia “need something other than coal. Because they

Law enforcement arrested a man connected to the disappearance of the Snow College student named Madelyn Allen in Utah.

Communist China frequently placates climate activists by promising to cut pollution in the 2030s and strive for “carbon neutrality” by 2060.

China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday announced the creation of a “special relending facility worth $31.6 billion to support the clean and efficient use of coal.” Chinese industry burns a titanic amount of coal, and is burning even more than usual at present to cope with a major energy crisis, to the growing displeasure of climate activists.

Indian officials on Wednesday announced six of the eleven coal-fired power plants around New Delhi have been shut down in a bid to reduce air pollution, which has grown so oppressive that schools are closed, construction work has been banned, and a full lockdown of the city is under consideration.

The show is over. It ended, appropriately enough, with the absurd spectacle of a man shedding crocodile tears over the failure to ban coal.

Saule Omarova, the Cornell law professor that President Joe Biden nominated to be the Comptroller of Currency, declared war on fossil fuels.

South Africa on Monday declined to sign a commitment to end financing for coal production within 30 years, joining a growing list of countries that are refusing some of the United Nations’ most burdensome climate change demands – a list headed by the world’s worst polluter and largest burner of coal, China.

China’s state-run Global Times boasted on Monday – day seven of the COP26 climate conference in Scotland – that coal output has reached “the highest level in recent years,” so China’s vast array of carbon-spewing coal-fired power plants can “ensure energy supply security and residential heating during the winter.”

Australia has no intention of ending the sale of coal and intends to continue doing so for “decades into the future,” the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow learned Monday.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Trade union members from Poland’s energy sector have protested before the European Union’s office in Warsaw, saying the EU’s moves to discourage coal use are responsible for soaring energy prices.

An international organization called the Global Carbon Project published a report on Thursday that found China’s carbon emissions are projected to rise by four percent this year.

Communist China’s contribution to the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, was an emissions “pledge” that actually proposed increasing China’s pollution output over the next few years.

WHITEHAVEN, England (AP) – In the patchwork of hills, lakes, and sea that makes up England’s northwest corner, most people see beauty. Dave Cradduck sees broken dreams.

As Joe Biden and 13 cabinet members head to the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, coal mines are making a comeback in the U.S.

The Chinese government on Tuesday launched a major effort to ramp up coal production and stabilize coal prices ahead of an anticipated surge in electric power demand this winter.

The world must slash the output of gas, coal, and oil in the next ten years or global warming will reach dangerous levels, a U.N.-backed study released Wednesday demanded, before lamenting nobody appears to be heeding its continued advice on the matter as fossil fuel production is set to soar over next decade.

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) – Hundreds of Bulgarian coal miners and energy workers staged a protest on Wednesday to demand government guarantees for their jobs amid bids by the European Union to close mines and reduce carbon emissions.

An official at the U.N. said he will press at the upcoming climate summit regulating the used car market to advance electric vehicles.

Joe Biden and environmentalists are trying to shut down the fossil fuel sector while the world is demanding more oil, gas and coal.

During an interview with NPR released on Tuesday, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said we have to get jobs into coal communities and “move away from coal as fast as possible.” While discussing coal communities, Raimondo said, “The reality is, severe

Anti-carbon policies in Europe have created a fuel shortage and sent energy prices through the roof, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) editorial board reported Wednesday.

China’s state-run Global Times did not think much of U.S. “climate envoy” John Kerry’s visit to Tianjin in a Thursday editorial, blasting Kerry’s climate-change talks as an ineffectual effort to mend fences without giving China the apologies and restitution it deserves for various alleged American offenses.

President Joe Biden dispatched “climate envoy” and former Secretary of State John Kerry to China for a global warming summit amid the ongoing disaster of his Afghanistan withdrawal.

The group of 20 wealthiest nations (G20) failed last week to agree on the wording of key commitments to flight climate change. The failure comes just 100 days ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP26, in Glasgow.

Five Asian nations account for 80 percent of the world’s newly planned coal power stations, according to a report published by the non-profit climate research think tank Carbon Tracker on Wednesday.