Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future (PennFuture) heralded Secretary of Environmental Protection Kathleen McGinty as a trailblazer for Pennsylvania’s environment and economy and a truly transformative leader. PennFuture’s comments came as McGinty announced her intention to leave office on July 18, 2008.
“Secretary McGinty has created a record of unparalleled achievement for the Keystone State’s environment and economy,” [...]

Coal production is expected to slow down after a small section of roof collapsed in a Greene County mine.
No one was injured in last weekend’s roof collapse. The collapse was in the Emerald Mine, just south of Waynesburg.
State Department of Environmental Protection spokesman Tom Rathbun says the piece of roof fell on a stage loader, [...]

Cabo Drilling Corp., Ontario Division, has signed a drilling contract with International Millennium Mining Corp. (IMMC) for an initial 2,500 meters of diamond drilling near the Waldman mine on IMMC’s Cobalt Area Property in Ontario. The purpose of the program is to test several strong targets identified by a MMI (mobile metal ion) sampling program [...]

Despite a swarm of economic problems and rising fossil fuel costs, last year was a banner year for clean energy, according to an outlook report by Clean Edge, a research and publishing firm.
According to Clean Edge’s report, biofuels (global production and wholesale pricing of ethanol and biodiesel) reached $25.4 billion in 2007 and are projected [...]

A revival of the coal industry in Wales was put forward as a possibility by Peter Hain today.
The Secretary of State for Wales said: “Fossil fuels are going to provide us with the bulk of our energy for the foreseeable future, coal included, so if we are going to tackle the urgent problem of climate [...]

THE world’s largest untapped oil reserves - in the Canadian Arctic - have become the new front line in the battle between environmentalists and the energy industry.
Shell, a self-styled “green” energy company, is to invest billions of dollars in exploiting the Athabasca tar sands.
Environmentalists say the tar sands are the world’s dirtiest oil deposits and [...]

The Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry and Kobe Steel Ltd. will in March start construction in Indonesia of the world’s first plant capable of turning low-grade coal into high-grade coal.
According to sources in the ministry and the company, the plant will be built to test the commercial potential of a method in which low-grade coal, [...]

Environmental groups have appealed a state board’s approval of the air-quality permit for waste coal-fired power plant.
Wellington Development LLC officials have said the $800 million plant would be fueled by 3.1 million tons of waste coal from piles at abandoned mines in Greene, Fayette and Washington counties. The plant would burn 85 percent waste [...]

Plans to build one of the largest waste coal power plant in the United States in the Greene County town of Nemacolin have cleared what promises to be the first in a series of legal hurdles.
The Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board Wednesday upheld the state’s June 2005 approval of a plan by Wellington Development LLP to [...]

AUSTRALIA’S booming energy export levels are likely to continue for 24 years as world demand for gas, coal, uranium and oil continue to be pushed skyward by China.
In its World Energy Outlook for 2006, the International Energy Agency is predicting energy demand to increase by 53 per cent by 2030, a growth rate of 1.6 [...]