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Kenya has been urged to halt construction of the country’s first ever coal-powered plant near the coastal town of Lamu, until an assessment is made of its environmental and cultural impact, in the…

Dive Brief: Rural electric cooperatives are struggling to access the cash flow necessary to participate in the clean energy transition as they are locked into long-term generation contracts, often…

Just when carbon emissions must be rapidly slashed to combat the climate crisis, in coming years some of the biggest U.S electric utilities will move more slowly to cut carbon pollution, according to…

The fossil-fuel burning power plants, factories, vehicles, and buildings we've already built will, if operated normally over their full lifetimes, almost certainly warm the Earth more than the Paris…

Residents and environmentalists cheered Wednesday's ruling which blocks East Africa's first coal-fired power station. Nairobi, Kenya - Plans for the development of a coal-fired power plant near a…

Green energy and natural gas will have similar proportions in the power generation mix, but coal will prevail. Non-hydro renewables, led by wind and solar, will reach 2.4 terawatt of installed…

The tribunal said constructors of the coal plant omitted engineering plans and key facts of the project from public participation as well as failure to take consideration of Climate Change Act.…

A new report has found that G20 nations are not on track to phase out the use of environmentally damaging fossil fuels. After global coverage on the climate emergency, a report by the Overseas…

The Trump administration’s misguided new Affordable Clean Energy rule is on the wrong side of history and the law. In its seeming obsession to reverse the EPA's previous Clean Power Plan, the Trump…

British clean energy expert Michael Liebreich has called on Fonterra to stop using coal-powered boilers to dry milk into milk powder, describing the process as "insane". "Drying milk with coal is…

Many nations are beginning to recognize the importance of acting now to minimize the threat of climate change. Germany, long a leader in renewable energy, declared in January 2019 that over the next…

Thanks to President Trump and his transparent and perverse desire to enrich his golfing buddies in the fossil fuel industry and to accelerate the climate crisis, the U.S. is the most notorious…

For the first time, U.S. electrical generating capacity by renewable energy sources – biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar and wind – has surpassed that of coal, according to a SUN DAY Campaign…

A new report from London-based think-tank Carbon Tracker has concluded that 54% of all EU coal plants are currently loss-making, a number which will increase to 97% by 2030 and that a total phase-out…

Scores of Kenyans on Wednesday protested against a project to build a coal power station near the Lamu archipelago, a popular tourist spot that includes a UNESCO World Heritage site and boasts…

Investors in General Electric, once one of the world's most valuable companies, lost tens of billions of dollars after the Paris climate deal as it failed to adapt to the pace of the green energy…

Environmental groups calling current levels of pollution in the Highveld Priority Area a violation of people’s constitutional rights. South Africa’s government is being sued for failing to crack…

As more and more funds pull out of coal, Andrew Tunnicliffe talks with the IEEFA’s Tim Buckley about what’s leading the exodus and what it means for the future of coal. For more than two centuries…

Michael Bloomberg, American Businessman, 108th Mayor of New York and 9th richest man on the planet has pledged $500 million under a new campaign ‘Beyond Carbon’ towards ending US coal production.…