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The investment case for coal-fired power is looking increasingly unconvincing, but more plants will need to be cancelled if the world is to avoid runaway climate change, a report published on Monday said.The report which was co-authored by green groups CoalSwarm and the Sierra Club, is the latest salvo being fired against those who finance coal, the fossil fuel blamed most for

Fracking of China’s huge shale gas reserves will only have a modest impact on the environment if anti-pollution controls—many of them new—are enforced rigorously, says a new report from the U.K.-based Overseas Development Institute (ODI).The ODI said its appraisal of the prospects for shale gas in China found that many of the environmental impacts posed by the exploitation of