Poland’s first state-backed electric car plant is expected to begin production by 2024 in a region of the EU country that now relies heavily on coal mining for jobs, the ElectroMobility Poland (EMP) carmaker said on Thursday.
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Sparking criticism from environmentalists, the outgoing Trump administration said Wednesday it will not require power plants, chemical manufacturers and oil and gas producers to have insurance covering toxic waste cleanups.
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Coal ash, a top polluting waste in the United States second only to household trash, is flowing unchecked from power plants under President Donald Trump, nine conservation groups suing the Environmental Protection Agency claimed Monday.
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Just weeks after the president cast himself as a “great environmentalist” in a Florida rally, conservation groups condemned his administration Friday for undermining a court’s order to prevent water contamination with coal ash.
Read moreA federal judge granted the FTC a preliminary injunction to prevent Peabody Energy Corp. and Arch Coal, the two largest coal-mining companies in the U.S., from forming a joint partnership intended to mitigate the effects of the coal industry’s slow decline.
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Poland moved closer to ending its heavy reliance on coal Friday as the government and miners’ unions agreed a landmark plan to phase out mines by 2049.
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A top French court on Friday sided with the descendants of coal miners fired after a brutal crackdown against a strike more than 70 years ago, potentially marking the final twist in a long-running legal fight.
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The British government has rejected plans to construct an open-cast coal mine near a picturesque beach in northeastern England, agreeing with campaigners that it would harm the environment.
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A group of German villagers filed a complaint with the country’s highest court Wednesday in a bid to save their homes from being destroyed to make way for the expansion of a giant coal mine.
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A group of Zimbabwean environmental rights lawyers have gone to court to bar a Chinese firm from exploring for coal inside the country’s biggest game reserve, court papers showed Tuesday.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Monday finalized the weakening of an Obama-era regulation on coal ash, claiming the rule change will reduce pollution from coal-fired power plants by over one million pounds every year as critics say it allows the continued dumping of lead, mercury and arsenic into waterways.
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A federal judge on Thursday advanced three lawsuits claiming a Bay Area city’s ban on the handling and storage of coal and petroleum coke is based on faulty science, preempted by federal laws and interferes with foreign and interstate commerce.
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An obvious loophole should have doomed Environmental Protection Agency approval of Pennsylvania’s plan to limit air pollutants, the Third Circuit ruled Thursday.
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A large coalition of states, environmental organizations and the Northern Cheyenne Tribe have filed fresh challenges against the Trump administration’s decision to open millions of acres of public lands up for new coal leasing and mining.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has no duty to review risks associated with major sources of industrial pollution on an ongoing basis — but it must update emissions-control technology for coke ovens and other sources of pollution every eight years, a federal judge ruled Friday.
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A Ninth Circuit panel on Tuesday upheld a federal judge’s ruling striking down the city of Oakland’s ban on coal shipments from a new terminal being built from an old army base at the foot of the San Francisco Bay Bridge.
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A federal judge in Montana ruled Friday that the Trump administration has adequately repaired its environmental analysis in a dispute over coal leases on public land.
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(CN) — A federal judge in Montana heard telephonic arguments Wednesday on whether the Trump administration provided proper environmental analysis
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The Environmental Protection Agency is poised Thursday to weaken mercury-emission rules by no longer giving weight to the attendant benefits that come with tougher pollution controls.
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A federal judge refused to dismiss defamation claims against more than a dozen news outlets that called a former coal CEO and Republican Senate candidate a felon, even though he was convicted of a lesser charge.
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