The world’s coal industry needs to sharpen up its act in order to meet tougher environmental standards amid increasing global concern over rising greenhouse gas emissions, experts said.
The call at an industry conference in Singapore came as top experts under the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) gathered in Paris to carry out a [...]

Austin Energy is considering using so-called clean coal to meet the city’s future power needs. The utility’s plans to secure long-term land and water rights on property in Matagorda County, in partnership with San Antonio’s public utility, were publicized prematurely by an Austin American-Statesman article on Jan. 20. Now, Austin Energy says it must accelerate [...]

Michigan is exploring ways to continue growing its alternative energy industry and providing a boost to economic development, but coal-fired power plants are expected to continue producing most of the state’s electricity through at least 2030.
ENERGY PLAN: Gov. Jennifer Granholm issued an executive directive in April calling for the development of a comprehensive plan to [...]

The utility is making a bid to turn to “green” alternatives to coal to meet growing electricity needs.
Xcel Energy Inc. is planning to turn to wind and water to head off a forecast shortfall of electricity.
The utility plans to get enough additional energy to power 375,000 homes from the projects, which would begin operating in [...]

Cabinet has emphasised that the initiative to enrich uranium was for civilian purposes only - aimed at meeting the country’s long-term energy needs.
Addressing the media in Cape Town on Thursday, government spokesperson Themba Maseko said concerns about the initiative to enrich uranium were unfounded as there could be “no doubt that our programme is for [...]

BP isn’t the only energy company seeking green in “green.”
Xcel Energy on Tuesday said it will invest $3.5 million through 2007, devoted to planning the development of a $500 million “clean coal” plant in Colorado.
Home-grown, cheaper than oil and commonly viewed as safer than nuclear power, coal’s drawback is of course its emissions. The [...]

Texas Independent Candidate for Governor Carole Keeton Strayhorn said Monday she will change the state’s permitting process in order to fight air pollution and announced her opposition to “dirty” coal-fired power plants that Gov. Rick Perry ordered fast-tracked through the permitting system.
“We first need to look to clean burning natural gas, wind energy, other renewables [...]

Independent gubernatorial candidate Carole Keeton Strayhorn objected to Republican Gov. Rick Perry’s plan to speed permits for 11 coal-fired plants and called today for stricter rules to fight pollution.
Strayhorn, the state comptroller, said she would order reviews of any permits issued for the plants and “slow the process to rewrite new rules that ensure clean [...]

Coal is making a comeback.
In an industrial corner of South Jersey, on a 300-acre parcel of land on the Delaware River, a company has negotiated for the last two years to build a $1 billion coal-burning electric plant that could juice 500,000 homes.
It is one of 150 coal-burning power plants on drawing boards around the [...]