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Dennis Wamsted and Seth Feaster of The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis IEEFA have published key findings relating to US coal generation in 1Q23

Boston is set to become the eighth and largest city in the Commonwealth to implement a new state climate-friendly building code to reduce the use of fossil fuels in the building sector. The "specialized stretch code" as it is known, does not ban the use of fossil fuels for heating or appliances, but it offers strong financial incentives for developers to ensure buildings are wired for electrification. Logan Malik, executive director of the Massachusetts Climate Action Network...

The structural decline of the U.S. coal industry is accelerating, with big implications for the Mountain West.

The structural decline of the U.S. coal industry is accelerating, with big implications for the Mountain West.

Mon Power has proposed to take over the Pleasants Power Station temporarily, while it decides whether to buy it.

Open access notables What does intellectual bankruptcy often look like? Trying to switch topics by going ad hominem, thats what. When somebody stops thinking and begins flinging irrelevant insults, threats and accusations at a person, were seeing a crisply humiliating admission: I have nothing. Going broke isnt free. In the case of climate science its climate scientists who bear costs. Global Witness quantifies this, finding that some 50% of climate scientists have found themselves on ...

Half the country’s coal-fired electricity generation expected to shut down by 2026

The structural decline of the U.S. coal industry is accelerating, with big implications for the Mountain West.

The trend is expected to hit thermal coal-producing regions, such as Wyoming's Powder River Basin, even quicker than previously thought.

One main driver of coal's decline is the legal obligation that utilities and states are under to provide energy at the lowest possible rate to consumers.