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Country music star Loretta Lynn dies at age 90

Loretta Lynn, the coal miner's daughter and moonshiner's wife who became one of American country music's biggest stars and a leading feminist in the genre, died on Tuesday at the age of 90, her family said on Twitter.

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Loretta Lynn, country music icon known as the ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter,’ dies at 90

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Loretta Lynn, an iconic singer who at one time was known as the Queen of Country Music, has died, according to a statement her family provided to The Associated Press. She was 90.

Tribune News Service

Loretta Lynn, coal miner’s daughter who transformed country music, dies at 90

Loretta Lynn, the firebrand singer and songwriter who transformed coal into diamonds by exploring her dirt-poor childhood in eastern Appalachia in her career-defining 1970 hit “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” died on Tuesday. She was 90.

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Country legend Loretta Lynn dies

The Kentucky coal miner’s daughter, whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and made her a pillar of country music, has died. She was 90.

Chicago Sun-Times

Loretta Lynn death: Country music icon dies aged 90

Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter whose songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia, has died aged 90.

The Independent UK

Loretta Lynn, country singer of love and hardship, dies aged 90

Kentucky-born singer went from poverty and teenage marriage to becoming one of the most celebrated stars of US country

The Guardian - UK

Loretta Lynn, coal miner's daughter and country queen, dies

Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter who became a pillar of country music, has died

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"From coal pits to coal tits": How Wigan's industrial past has transformed into green spaces

"Looking at the locations in the middle of urban sprawls and suddenly you have a magnificent green oasis, even the swans will put on a show for you occasionally.”

Manchester Evening News

German energy giant RWE to end coal use by 2030

German energy giant RWE says it will phase out the burning of coal by 2030, saving 280 million metric tons of climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions

The Independent UK

Failed Griffin Coal mine owes close to $1.5 billion to creditors as WA electricity grid woes loom

The failed coal mine in Collie, 200km south of Perth, owes close to $1.5 billion to creditors, with the banks urged to "come clean" on their losses to avoid a potential disaster in WA’s biggest electricity grid.

ABC News

Bristol's worst mining disaster and Bedminster's hidden history of coal needs a memorial, says councillor

Ten men and boys were killed under what is now a skatepark

Bristol Post

How to ensure the world's largest pumped-hydro dam isn't a disaster for Queensland's environment

To quit coal and move to renewables, we need large-scale energy storage. That’s where pumped hydro comes in. Queensland’s ambitious new plan involves shifting from a coal-dominated electricity grid to 80% renewables within 13 years, using 22 gigawatts of new wind and solar. The plan relies on two massive new…

The Conversation

Emissions rise with bumper gas, coal sales

Australia is sending record fuel shipments to a world cut off from Russian gas and boosting secure supplies of critical minerals needed for new energy sources.

AAP

India lags in biomass co-firing targets

This recalcitrance by power manufacturers has prompted the government to consider cutting coal supply to non-compliant plants

The Hindu

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Newcastle Herald

Carrying coals from Newcastle's past

Topics: Carrying coals and counting chickens.

The Hindu

While changes are taking place to develop industries beyond Bengaluru, there is a need to fast-track them, says Union Minister Joshi

Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Coal and Mines Pralhad Joshi said that while changes were happening to develop industries ‘Beyond Benglauru’, there was need for fast-tracking the changes in tune with the pace of technological advancements and developments across the globe.

The Guardian - AU

Fossil fuels in schools: industry faces pushback in fight for hearts and minds of next generation

Business efforts to get pro-fossil fuel material into classrooms experience opposition due to role in climate change

The Independent UK

Supreme Court leaves Don Blankenship conviction in place

The Supreme Court says it won’t review the conviction of former coal CEO Don Blankenship, who was convicted of conspiring to violate safety standards at West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch mine before the 2010 explosion that killed 29 men

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The Hindu

India's coal production rises 12% in September

Dispatch of coal also went up marginally by 1.95% to 61.18 MT in September

The Denver Post

Why Colorado’s Western Slope likely remains Lauren Boebert country, despite a string of controversies

CRAIG, Colo. — Steam rises from the coal-fired Craig Station power plant, pickup trucks filter in and out of the Trapper Mine southwest of town and Bob Seger drifts over the radio waves.

ABC News

Blackout fears dismissed as power station in WA taken offline amid uncertainty over coal supply

The WA government talks down the prospect of summer blackouts after the energy regulator asked that a power station be switched off to conserve coal supplies.

The Hindu

Tangedco seeks clarity in norms for blending imported coal with domestic coal

Central Electricity Regulatory Commission allowed generation companies to blend domestic coal with up to 20% of alternative sources without permission from beneficiaries

The Guardian - AU

What’s happening with the climate crisis and heat-trapping emissions in Australia

What is Australia’s contribution to the climate emergency, and how successfully is it acting to address it?

ABC News

Loy Yang A power station's early closure prompts Latrobe Valley locals to ponder their future

The identity of Victoria's Latrobe Valley is firmly rooted in its history as a centre of coal-fired power, but plans to shut the Loy Yang A power station early have locals questioning where to from here.

Newcastle Herald

Aussie coal sales top $100 billion a year as industry surges despite green fears

Coal use and prices up despite green worries

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