coal mining – Energy Transition https://energytransition.org The Global Energiewende Thu, 25 May 2023 15:18:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 Finito: Colombia halts new gas, oil and coal exploitation https://energytransition.org/2023/05/finito-colombia-halts-new-gas-oil-and-coal-exploitation/ https://energytransition.org/2023/05/finito-colombia-halts-new-gas-oil-and-coal-exploitation/#respond Thu, 25 May 2023 15:16:51 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=28197 President Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first-ever progressive leader, wants to help slow global climate change, protect regional biodiversity and bolster Indigenous people’s rights by decoupling the nation’s economy from fossil fuels, starting with a ban on new oil and coal exploration permits. The contentious policy change for the long fossil fuel dependent nation comes on the back of a bonanza year...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2023/05/finito-colombia-halts-new-gas-oil-and-coal-exploitation/feed/ 0 Losing Lützerath: To save Germany, the occupied village must be destroyed https://energytransition.org/2023/01/losing-lutzerath-to-save-germany-the-occupied-village-must-be-destroyed/ https://energytransition.org/2023/01/losing-lutzerath-to-save-germany-the-occupied-village-must-be-destroyed/#respond Thu, 19 Jan 2023 08:00:49 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=27827 By the time you read this, the village of Lützerath may already be gone – part of the price paid for getting RWE, Germany’s largest energy producer, to stop mining and burning brown coal by 2030. Yet short term, RWE is ramping generation at their lignite-burning plants, among the most polluting in Europe, to make up for sanctioned Russian gas and help Germany get through the next two winters.

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2023/01/losing-lutzerath-to-save-germany-the-occupied-village-must-be-destroyed/feed/ 0 Out of arguments: In a last ditch effort, King Coal tries pounding on the table https://energytransition.org/2021/05/out-of-arguments-in-a-last-ditch-effort-king-coal-tries-pounding-on-the-table/ https://energytransition.org/2021/05/out-of-arguments-in-a-last-ditch-effort-king-coal-tries-pounding-on-the-table/#respond Tue, 18 May 2021 10:00:03 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=24299 There’s a lot less coal smoke in the air, approaching mid 2021. Analyses from climate think tanks Ember and E3G illustrate a dramatic drop in the US and the European Union. But there are still a few holdouts as some continue digging in their heals. The US state of Wyoming, long the nation’s largest coal producer, is threatening to sue those who turn to cleaner energy sources. And Poland...

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