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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 Hindu

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?

The Guardian - AU

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.

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

Coal use and prices up despite green worries

Newcastle Herald

Neglected underground coal fires threaten lives of Zimbabweans

Residents of the Hwange area are living in fear after state-run mining company’s failure to put out raging blazes.

Al Jazeera

SCCL action plan to ramp up production

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The Hindu

US shift away from coal hits tribal community in New Mexico

The lights are out at a coal-fired power plant in northwestern New Mexico that has provided electricity to millions of people across the southwestern U.S. for nearly a half-century

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Peter Dutton 3.0: can the Coalition hard man change voters’ minds by pasting on a smile?

After two decades in politics, rebranding might not be as easy as putting on a friendly face and presenting as someone new

The Guardian - AU

Four state scandals that show what a federal anti-corruption commission could uncover

From Eddie Obeid to ‘Mr Ipswich’, state anti-corruption bodies have already shown how they can hold the powerful to account

The Guardian - AU

Queensland’s renewable energy plan confirms the politics of coal have changed for good

Most now see opportunity instead of job losses – but Labor will have to match ambition with action if it’s to deliver on 80% renewables by 2035

The Guardian - AU

Deep underground, Mexican coal miners remember those who never came back

Each time Juan Briones descends deep into the ground of northern Mexico to dig for coal he knows he must balance earning a living and avoiding death.

Reuters

Australia's great energy transition reaches a 'tipping point' as clock winds forward for coal

Everywhere you looked over the past few days it seemed the super-charged transition from coal-fired power to renewable energy was on display. So what's next?

ABC News

Winds of ‘radical change’: Queensland breaks up with coal in stunning week in energy

Annastacia Palaszczuk promised to ditch coal by 2035, leaving experts ‘gobsmacked’ given the state’s deep association with the fossil fuel

The Guardian - AU

So long, Loy Yang: shutting Australia’s dirtiest coal plant a decade early won’t jeopardise our electricity supply

AGL Energy – Australia’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases – announced this week it will shut the Loy Yang A power station in Victoria’s LaTrobe Valley in 2035, a decade earlier than planned.

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Queensland's clean energy transition plan sparks fears for communities built on coal

For 36 years Ashley Cook has worked at a coal mine in regional Queensland, taking pride in his highly skilled dragline operator job. He's concerned about what the state government's energy plan could mean for communities like his.

ABC News

Coal-fed hydrogen plant 'cannot go ahead' if Tasmania is to maintain 'clean, green' reputation, expert says

A proposal for a coal-fed hydrogen plant in Tasmania "cannot go ahead" if the state is to live up to its "clean, green" reputation, one expert says — with an activist group vowing to do "everything we can to stop this project".

The Conversation

Green hydrogen sounds like a win for developing countries. But cost and transport are problems

Hydrogen is used mainly to make chemicals such as fertiliser, and in oil refineries. Most hydrogen in the world today is made from natural gas or coal – methods associated with large carbon dioxide emissions. Developed countries are therefore looking to “green hydrogen” instead – produced using renewable electricity such…

The Hindu

TRS thanks CM for giving 30% share in SCCL profits as bonus to workers

‘Centre conspiring to privatise coal mines in TS to weaken SCCL’

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Loy Yang A’s premature closure puts pressure on renewable energy to replace fossil fuels

AGL is speeding up the closure of one of Australia’s biggest carbon polluting power plants, but a solid replacement is yet to take shape.

The Guardian - AU

Amid rush to exit coal, AGL’s challenges are only just beginning

Energy retailer says it will need to find $20bn to meet its raised goal of adding 12 gigawatts of new wind and solar plants and storage by 2036

The Conversation

How did Victoria cut emissions by almost 30% - while still running mostly on coal?

In the 15 years to 2020, Victoria’s emissions fell by almost 30%, according to a new government report. You might wonder how is this possible, given most of the state’s brown coal stations are still running and we’re still driving petrol cars.

AAP

AGL catches up to peers with climate plan

Under AGL Energy's first climate transition plan, closing one coal-fired power station a decade early will avoid 200 million tonnes of greenhouse gases.

The Guardian - AU

Nationals say renewables can’t meet energy needs without fossil support. But do the claims firm up?

The Nationals have turned the scare rhetoric up to 11, but the energy market operator has already accounted for much of their criticisms

AAP

Cheaper renewables drive coal closures

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek says the falling cost of renewable energy was one of the factors behind AGL's early closure of coal-fired power.

ABC News

Clean energy plan brings some certainty to Queensland's coal country, but more detail needed

Gladstone retiree Roy Jones says the move to transition Queensland's coal-fired power stations into "clean energy hubs" as part of the state government's $62 billion energy plan provides certainty for regional workers.

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