Coal

13/06/23
Author: 
John Feffer
Teaser photo credit: UK child’s ration book in WW2. Public Domain.

An interesting description of an international, post-capitalist energy distribution system--which fails to address how capitalism might be eliminated. 

                       -- Gene McGuckin

May 23, 2023

03/06/23
Author: 
Nicholas Kusnetz
Submerged area is seen after flash floods in Sunamganj, Bangladesh. Photo by Muhammad Amdad Hossain / Climate Visuals

May 30, 2023

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

09/05/23
Author: 
Natasha Bulowski
Galen Crampsey, an electrical worker and rank-and-file member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 353, speaks on Day 1 of the Canadian Labour Congress 2023 convention in Montreal. Photo by Natasha Bulowski

“I don't see any language in this resolution that identifies the root of the problem,” said  [Galen] Crampsey, who identified the ruling class as the source of the cost of living and climate crises.

08/05/23
Author: 
Jean Chemnick, Pamela King and Robin Bravender
President Joe Biden speaks about climate change at Brayton Power Station in Somerset, Mass., last year. His administration is preparing to announce carbon regulations on power plants. | Evan Vucci/AP Photo

May 5, 2023

‘No other way to do it’: Biden about to go big on power plants

Historically strict EPA regulations on coal- and gas-fired power plants are due out. They face legal and political peril.

The Biden administration is poised to unveil its most ambitious effort yet to roll back planet-warming pollution from the nation’s thousands of power plants — an effort that’s certain to bring a legal and political attack from conservatives but may disappoint some supporters of the president’s climate agenda.

18/04/23
Author: 
Ted Franklin
Extinction Rebellion climate activists hold a banner in Lincoln's Inn Fields before a Rise and Rebel march organised to coincide with the end of, and anticipated failure of, the COP26 climate summit on 13th November 2021 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty Images)

"By focusing on pressure campaigns against private actors with no direct effect on the fossil fuel industry, well-intentioned people inadvertently delay the necessary struggle to win and engage state power to phase out the extraction and production of fossil fuels.". . . . "Indeed, doing so buys into the neoliberal logic that government can do nothing when, in fact, only government can shut down the fossil fuel industry."

Apr. 4, 2023

02/04/23
Author: 
Ian Bailey, The Globe and Mail
File photo. Premier John Horgan makes an announcement about oil and gas royalties at the B.C. legislature in Victoria on Thursday, May 19, 2022. Government of B.C.

Apr. 1, 2023

John Horgan is joining the board of Elk Valley Resources, an enterprise that is in the process of being spun off from Vancouver-based Teck Resources

Former British Columbia premier John Horgan is taking a job in the coal industry, and says he is not worried about the criticism the move may draw.

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