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Coal

September 2024

  • A side-by-side graphic of a steel plant and a close-up of Donald Trump's smile

    The Stakes
    If Trump and Vance win the election, this is what’s at stake

  • Empty land with the town of Whitehaven in the background

    High court blocks Cumbria plan for UK’s first new deep coalmine in 30 years

  • Shannon Logue and Andrew Gough in front of the station

    Inside Eraring, the giant coal-fired power station that escaped a 2025 death sentence

  • An older person looks wistful and frustrated as she stands on a grassy stretch of land with trees, while fumes rise out of a power plant in the distance

    A coal plant bulldozed an Ohio town displacing residents. Now its owners include a big Trump donor

  • G20 countries turning backs on fossil fuel pledge, say campaigners

  • UK’s methane hotspots include landfills and last coalmine

August 2024

  • A general view of the Loy Yang power plant In the La Trobe Valley on the 20th of June 2024. Asanka Brendon Ratnayake for The Guardian Victoria. Australia

    Emissions from Australian coal-fired power stations rise as wind and hydro dip

  • High-voltage electricity towers in Sydney

    Australia’s electricity grid to remain reliable if renewable projects delivered ‘on time and in full’, Aemo says

  • Man in protective gear stands in front of fire and machinery

    Thousands of British Steel jobs could go by Christmas, union warns

  • Smoke billows from chimneys of a coal-fired power station

    China’s coal-fired power boom may be ending amid slowdown in permits

  • Australian climate and environment in focus
    Residents’ lungs aged ‘more rapidly’ after exposure to smoke from Hazelwood coalmine fire, research shows

  • Australian fossil fuel exports ranked second only to Russia for climate damage with ‘no plan’ for reduction

  • Investors push Glencore to scrap spin-off of heavily polluting coal division

July 2024

  • An oil refinery spews pollution with the city of Houston, Texas, in the background.

    The other petrostates
    UN chief urges wealthy countries to beat fossil fuel ‘addiction’ amid expansions

  • The coastline near the proposed site of a new coalmine in Whitehaven, England.

    Cumbria project will be ‘net zero’, coalmine firm tells high court

  • Adrian Burragubba’s nephew Nathan Baira at Queensland’s Doongmabulla Springs

    Adani’s Queensland coalmine a threat to important wetland, Indigenous groups and scientists say

  • Overhead view of the electric arc furnace facility

    Steelmakers fire up to swap centuries-old reliance on coal for electric arc furnaces

  • Cumbria coalmine was unlawfully approved, government says

  • Is coal’s recent revival in Australia’s energy mix just a blip or something more?

  • Queensland coalmine fire a ‘disaster’ for climate say environmental groups

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