All coal articles
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Business
Oil and gas industry emissions are not on track to hit climate goals
Several big firms have rolled back their targets, saying governments need to set pace with policy
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News
New carbon dioxide pollution standards proposed for US power plants
US environment agency estimates its new regulation would avoid over 600 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 2042
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Business
Chemicals industry roundup 2022
Russia’s invation of Ukraine mounted further pressure onto already strained supply chains
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Opinion
Letters: December 2021
Readers discuss the environment and greener fuels, and speculate on chemistry’s role in the first world war
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News
Cop26 deal promises more action but 1.5°C target still looks out of reach
Agreements on coal, methane and deforestation are overshadowed by estimate that the world is on track for 2.4°C of warming by the end of the century
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News
Ballooning coal use sees China’s energy agency face harsh criticism from the top
Energy security came at the expense of the environment with more coal power plants built than needed, report finds
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News
Trump repeals and replaces Obama’s clean power plan to curb coal emissions
Affordable Clean Energy Rule lets states determine how or whether to regulate pollution from coal-fired power plants
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News
Switching UK’s gas network to hydrogen perfectly possible, report finds
Repurposing the natural gas network would cut out country’s biggest source of carbon emissions
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News
Obama era clean power plan to be binned
US environment agency to end dalliance with country’s first limits on carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants
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News
US plants cut toxic fumes by 56% since 2005
Air releases of hydrochloric acid and sulfuric acid by US industrial facilities fell by more than 250,000 tonnes from 2005 to 2015
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Research
Primitive microbe may offer a hotbed of methane
Microbe digests complex compounds from coal and turns them into methane