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Especially given the climate-fueled wildfires ravaging the region, conservationists sounded alarm Thursday in response to a Trump administration proposal for an oil and gas lease sale in California,…

Steam-based plants third biggest source of toxic wastewater Pollutants released into water linked to cancer and other illness The Trump administration is loosening rules for toxic water…

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is jeopardizing Canadians’ retirement savings, undercutting federal government policy, and making a mockery of one of the country’s few points of…

Illegal gold diggers have destroyed a 2,000-year-old archaeological site in Sudan in the eastern region of the Sahara desert, official say. The Jabal Maragha site, which dates from the Meroitic…

Coal company Adani sought to raid the home of an environmental activist who opposed its controversial mine in Queensland, Australia's Galilee Basin, court documents have shown.

Angus Taylor introduces bill to give Clean Energy Finance Corporation $1bn for ‘grid reliability fund’. The Morrison government has been accused of planning to open up the taxpayer-owned green bank…

The largest coal mining company in the United States substantially lowered the value of one of its top-producing thermal coal assets based on low expectations for future coal demand. Peabody Energy…

More than 100 investors in Whitehaven Coal have filed a resolution asking the company to plan its own closure — the first in an ambitious play by an activist shareholder group to push fossil fuel…

U.S. coal power generation plunged by 30 percent in the first half of 2020 off an already-depressed base, shoved out by natural gas and renewables amid low energy prices linked to the COVID-19…

Heatwave brings wind turbines to standstill and causes gas plants to struggle. National Grid has fired up a coal-fired power station for the first time in 55 days after Britain’s record-breaking…

Trouble at biggest mine in Powder River Basin speaks volumes about state of industry Peabody Energy, the world’s largest privately owned coal company and the biggest U.S. coal producer, has finally…

As the black stuff burnt in the UK plummets to a level not seen since the early steam age, we trace its long, deep history and the problems left in its wake. Britain achieved an unlikely status as a…

Narendra Modi’s dream of a ‘self-reliant India’ comes at a terrible price for its indigenous population. Over the past decade, Umeshwar Singh Amra has witnessed his homeland descend into a…

The carbon economy amplifies racial, social and economic inequities, creating a system that is fundamentally incompatible with a stable future. From deep-rooted racism to the Covid-19 pandemic, from…

Bangladesh’s minister of power, energy and mineral resources, Nasrul Hamid, surprised energy watchers recently when he said the country is planning to “review” all but three of 29 planned coal plants…

An African economic leader like Botswana should embrace solar to reduce subsidies and tariff hikes. As Sub-Saharan solar ambition has scaled up, Botswana has awarded its first ever power generation…

At the 2019 Republican Retreat, Donald Trump promised his allies that he would make this election about climate change: "I want to bring them way down the pike," he said, "before we start…

Exclusive: Shine Energy, which has proposed a new plant at Collinsville in north Queensland, describes itself as a ‘traditional owner company’ The company proposing a coal-fired power station at…

Activists protest at Samsung Electronics store in Sydney over debt purchase by affiliate Samsung Securities. A company in the Samsung Group invested in Adani’s Australian coal operation last year in…

Exclusive: Australia’s big four banks have loaned $7bn to 33 new or expansionary fossil fuel projects between 2016 and 2019, analysis finds Since the Paris agreement was signed, Australia’s big four…