After Coal News Today

This exhibition charts the creation and use of maps during the Second World War.

In a break from our usual painterly programming, we turn to a photograph of one woman from one of Scotland’s former coal communities—and how, when it comes to this long-gone industry, the past is always present

Life After Coal says that the conditions placed on Eskom to allow it to bypass sulphur dioxide emissions requirements at Kusile are weak.

The state of disaster on the energy crisis shouldn't be seen as an opportunity to bring more power online, at the expense of people and the planet, says a climate activist.

To allow it to restore generation capacity to the grid quicker. 

Limpopo’s proposed mega-industrial complex, the Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone, is being challenged in court over its environmental authorisation, which overlooks the drastic toll it would have on the region’s water supply – and biodiversity.

Calls for a ‘just energy transition’ in South Africa are now louder than those concerned with jobs in fossil fuel industries

BACK TO THE HOME PAGE Deadly Air Case: The Struggle to Breathe Clean Air in Mpumalanga goes to Court Landmark #DeadlyAir air pollution case against South African government will be heard in the Pretoria High Court from 17 May 2021 - Two environmental justice groups are asking the High Court to declare the poor ambient air quality in the Highveld Priority Area a violation of the Constitutional right to an environment not harmful to health or well-being. Scenes from Wayawaya settle...

I write in appreciation of Jessica Kutz’s piece about the end of the Navajo Generating Station and the Navajo Nation’s struggle for control of its energy (“Life After Coal,” February 2021). I really enjoyed the calm, in-depth exploration of the whole story. It has strong resonances here in Australia, where Indigenous peoples have nothing like parity with the non-Indigenous people who run the show on their land. Jackie Clark

BACK TO THE HOME PAGE Image: © Mujahid Safodien / Greenpeace 06 March 2021 - Environmental justice groups groundWork and the Vukani Environmental Justice Movement in Action (VEJMA) have responded to papers filed by the Minister of Environment Forestry and Fisheries in the “Deadly Air” court case against government about the toxic and unsafe levels of air pollution that people living and working on the Mpumalanga Highveld are exposed to daily. In her affidavit filed on behalf of all...