TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s environment ministry warned on Tuesday that the electricity industry, which accounts for 40% of its carbon emissions, will miss its target for cutting carbon dioxide (CO2) by 2030, calling for it to take further measures. The warning ... More »
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. electric industry may ask essential staff to live on site at power plants and control centers to keep operations running if the coronavirus outbreak worsens, and has been stockpiling beds, blankets, and food for them, a... More »
BOSTON (Reuters) – New York state’s top pension fund official said it was reviewing whether to divest from 27 coal companies and could make decisions on $98 million in holdings within two months. The reviews by the third-largest U.S. state pension system, with... More »
HEGANG, China (Reuters) – Li Hai is a nobody in China. But the 32-year-old ship mechanic became a minor internet sensation last month after posting a video of his everyday life in a largely forgotten coal city in the country’s far north. Resource-rich cities l... More »
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg on Friday unveiled a climate plan to slash U.S. carbon emissions by 50% in ten years, by slapping tougher pollution standards on new gas-fired power plants and replacing coal with ... More »
SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Monday oversaw the launch of a landmark pipeline that will transport natural gas from Siberia to northeast China, an economic and political boost to ties betwe... More »
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Global money managers and companies are rushing to meet a deadline to report on their carbon footprint, but the lack of a standard metric raises concerns their efforts could just be a box-ticking exercise in the transition from brown to gree... More »
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Chinese financial institutions provided at least $1 billion in “green” financing to coal-related projects in the first half of this year, a review of financial data showed, with fossil fuels still playing a major role in Beijing’s energy s... More »
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India proposed tax waivers on Friday on the purchase of electric vehicles and removed import taxes on some auto components to help boost sales and reduce its dependence on fossil fuels. India, the world’s third-biggest emitter of g... More »
(Reuters) – A committee in Ohio’s House of Representatives voted along party lines to approve a bill to save the state’s two nuclear power reactors from retirement and provide some financial support for a couple of ailing coal plants. Republicans in the House ... More »
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s conservative coalition secured an outright parliamentary majority on Monday following a shock election victory, allowing Prime Minister Scott Morrison to progress his legislative agenda without the support of independents. Morris... More »
NOVOVOLYNSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukrainian police are investigating two companies and a factory over a coal deal which some anti-corruption campaigners say epitomizes the difficulties of doing business in the east European country. The sums involved in the dea... More »
LAUNCESTON, Australia – If the sharp plunge in China’s exports in February shows anything, it’s that a gap is opening between what the country is shipping out and its still resilient imports of major commodities. Exports dropped 20.7 percent in February from t... More »
LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) – Russia, a leading producer of natural resources, plans to join Luxembourg in mining for minerals in outer space, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said on Wednesday. Space mining has been the realm of science fiction, but a ... More »
BOSTON (Reuters) – Top U.S. pension funds are asking electric utilities to accelerate efforts to cut carbon emissions but will not force the issue with proxy resolutions this spring, hoping market shifts and falling prices for renewable energy have already mad... More »
(Reuters) – Democratic lawmakers on Monday asked the Environmental Protection Agency’s inspector general to investigate whether two senior agency officials violated ethics rules by helping reverse an enforcement decision against their former client company. Th... More »
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s phasing out of coal-fired power stations could be delayed beyond 2038 if the deadline creates problems for the security of electricity supply, a senior legislator in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party said. The phase-out, proposed la... More »
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s Economy Minister Peter Altmaier on Monday said that he did not want Germany to compensate for a planned phase out of coal-fired power by 2038 by importing nuclear power from neighboring countries. “We want energy security to be pro... More »
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s State Grid Corp [STGRD.UL] will invest 38.7 billion yuan ($5.66 billion) to build five pumped hydro storage plants across the country, in an effort to ease the stranded power system amid Beijing’s push to boost clean energy consumpt... More »
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Many Delhi residents were forced to spend Christmas indoors this year as air quality remained at “severe to emergency” levels for a fourth day, in the Indian capital’s worst smog crisis this year. Senior officials predicted the severe pol... More »
BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and China slapped tit-for-tat duties on $34 billion worth of each other’s imports on Friday, with Beijing accusing Washington of triggering the “largest-scale trade war” as the world’s two biggest economies shar... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt, who had been lauded by President Donald Trump for his aggressive efforts to roll back environmental regulations, resigned on Thursday under heavy fire for a series of ethics-related con... More »
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe could find his oft-touted close ties with Donald Trump sorely tested at a summit this week in which Tokyo fears the U.S. leader will to try to link vital security matters with touchy trade topics. It is a fr... More »
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Utilities can increase their efficiency by using more artificial intelligence (AI) technology, such as software to predict demand swings in the power grid or to control home appliances, consultancy Roland Berger said. European utilities c... More »
FILE PHOTO: A loader is seen amid coal piles at a port in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China January 25, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer BEIJING (Reuters) – Four of China’s top utilities have told the government some regions will face heating and electricity shortage... More »
FILE PHOTO – An employee walks between front-end loaders which are used to move coal imported from North Korea at Dandong port in the Chinese border city of Dandong, Liaoning province December 7, 2010. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo PARIS/LONDON/MOSCOW (Reuters) ... More »
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, asked about allegations that Russia is re-exporting North Korean coal, said on Friday that Russia abides by norms of international law. “Russia is a responsible member of the international community,” he told... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Legislation to provide $81 billion in new disaster aid for U.S. states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands was put on hold by the Senate on Thursday amid attacks from both Republicans and Democrats. The Republican-controlled House o... More »
A logo of Hitachi Ltd. is pictured at the CEATEC JAPAN 2017 (Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies) at the Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan, October 2, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai TOKYO (Reuters) – The head of Japan’s Hitachi Ltd (6501.T) said the company wa... More »
FILE PHOTO – Hunter Harrison speaks to the economic community at a business luncheon in Toronto, March 2, 2015. REUTERS/Mark Blinch (Reuters) – CSX Corp (CSX.O) said on Thursday its Chief Executive Officer Hunter Harrison was taking medical leave, an announcem... More »
FILE PHOTO: A woman talks on her mobile phone on a pavement in Kolkata, India July 5, 2017. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri/File Photo NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India has increased the import tax on dozens of electronic products such as mobile phones and television set... More »
FILE PHOTO: An employee rides a bike on a road near refinery plants of Chambroad Petrochemicals, in Boxing, Shandong Province, China, May 10, 2016. REUTERS/Meng Meng/File Photo BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s commodity imports roared back in November as supply wor... More »
President Donald Trump on Thursday named Andrew Wheeler, a coal industry lobbyist and former congressional staffer, as his pick for deputy administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, prompting contrasting reactions from industry and environmenta... More »
Noble Group's treasury head has quit the company, More »
Miner Glencore PLC (GLEN.L) said on Monday it has kicked off a bid to sell its Rolleston thermal coal mine in Australia, together with its joint venture partners, Japanese trading houses Itochu Corp (8001.T) and Sumitomo Corp (8053.T). More »
U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke will recommend on Aug. 24 whether to eliminate or shrink nearly two dozen national monuments, creating the first major test for a 111-year-old law that gives presidents the power to protect swaths of public land. More »
China's Commerce Ministry issued a ban effective from Tuesday on several imports from North Korea, including coal, iron ore, lead concentrates and ore, lead and seafood, a move that is in line with U.N. sanctions announced this month. More »
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June 30, 2017 – A general view shows The Rhine Tower (Rheinturm) on the Rhine river in Duesseldorf. Water on the Rhine and Danube in Germany remains shallow and cargo vessels cannot sail fully loaded, traders said on Monday. More »
China has removed the deputy head of its state asset regulator over serious disciplinary violations, but stopped short of expelling him from the ruling Communist Party, the government’s anti-graft watchdog said on Monday. More »
Saint Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican is silhouetted during sunset in Rome, March 11, 2013. Roman Catholic Cardinals will begin their conclave inside the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel Tuesday to elect a new pope. REUTERS/Paul Hanna U.S. President Donald Trump is se... More »
The California State Teachers’ Retirement System board voted unanimously on Wednesday to divest from non-U.S. thermal coal, affecting a very small fraction of the public pension fund’s portfolio. More »
Kosei Shindo, president of Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp, makes a speech at a ceremony to welcome newly-hired employees in Tokyo, Japan April 3, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon Japanese steelmakers are concerned at “protectionism” by U.S. President Donald Tr... More »
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a signing ceremony with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin at the Treasury Department in Washington, U.S., April 21, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein U.S. President Donald Trump this week will sign new executive orders b... More »
A Durham farmer has beaten dozens of rivals to the title of World Coal Carrying Champion after charging through a northern England town with a 50kg (110 pounds) sack on his back. More »
FILE PHOTO – A worker verifies a product at a steel factory in Dalian, Liaoning province, China September 1, 2016. China Daily/via REUTERS China’s producer price inflation cooled for the first time in seven months in March as iron ore and coal prices tumbled, ... More »
Cars sit submerged after heavy rain associated with Cyclone Debbie hit the Gold Coast suburb of Robina in Queensland, Australia, March 30, 2017. AAP/Dave Hunt/via REUTERS Australia began evacuating thousands of people stranded on resort islands in the tropical... More »
U.S. President Donald Trump holds up an executive order on ”Energy Independence,” eliminating Obama-era climate change regulations, during a signing ceremony at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) headquarters in Washington, U.S., March 28, 2017. REUTERS... More »
At least ten North Korean ships have arrived at a Chinese port after being stranded for the past three weeks following the top global coal consumer’s ban on imports of the fuel from its isolated neighbor, a report said on Friday. More »
Earl Gohl (C), co-director of the Appalachian Regional Commission, is participating in a coding demo with Interapt trainees in Paintsville, Kentucky, U.S. on March 13, 2017. REUTERS/Valerie Volcovici President Donald Trump has proposed eliminating funding for ... More »
Peabody’s St. Louis headquarters seen from the steps of the Thomas F. Eagleton U.S. Courthouse, where a hearing on the coal producer’s plan to exit its Chapter 11 bankruptcy was held in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S., March 16, 2017. REUTERS/Tracy Rucinski Peabody ... More »
The Senate confirmed Scott Pruitt to run the Environmental Protection Agency over the objections of Democrats and environmentalists worried he will gut the agency, as the administration readies executive orders to ease regulation on drillers and miners. REUTER... More »
FILE PHOTO – Pump jacks drill for oil in the Monterey Shale, California, U.S. on April 29, 2013. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo U.S. shale oil producers are plotting ambitious production growth outside the red-hot Permian Basin in Texas, widening a resurgen... More »
China will continue to cut excess capacity in the steel sector in 2018, National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) Vice Chairman Ning Jizhe said at a news conference on Monday. More »
China will ensure prices stay basically stable this year while at the same time deepening price reform, a vice chairman at the state planner said on Monday. More »
Children look for plastic bottles at the polluted Bagmati River in Kathmandu March 22, 2013. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar A quarter of all global deaths of children under five are due to unhealthy or polluted environments including dirty water and air, second-hand... More »
Workers direct a crane lifting newly made steel bars at a factory in Dalian, Liaoning province, China, October 13, 2015. REUTERS/China Daily/File Photo China needs to reallocate half a million steel and coal workers in 2017 due to capacity cuts in these indust... More »
Scott Pruitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), speaks to employees of the Agency in Washington, U.S., February 21, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration will begin rolling back Obama-era environmen... More »
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches a performance given with splendor at the People’s Theatre on Wednesday to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the State Merited Chorus in this photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in... More »
Here are some of the highlights of the Reuters interview with U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday. More »
A glut of idled river barges is clogging Mississippi River shorelines from St. Louis to New Orleans, leaving U.S. barge companies that haul grain, coal and other bulk goods counting their losses. More »
FILE PHOTO: Rex Tillerson, the former chairman and chief executive officer of Exxon Mobil, testifies during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing to become U.S. Secretary of State on Capitol Hill in Washington January 11, 2017. REUTERS/Kevi... More »
FILE PHOTO – A woman pauses as she shops at a wholesale market in Yiwu, Zhejiang province January 11, 2011. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo China’s producer price inflation picked up more than expected in January to near six-year highs as prices of steel and ... More »
FILE PHOTO: People walk along a village road on a polluted day after the Chinese Lunar New Year holidays on the outskirts of Langfang, Hebei province, China, February 3, 2017. REUTERS/Jason Lee/File Photo China is considering forcing steel and aluminum produce... More »
People are seen in silhouette as they cool off in water fountains in a park as hot summer temperatures hit Paris, France, August 24, 2016. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol World temperatures hit a record high for the third year in a row in 2016, creeping closer to a c... More »
A vendor waits for customers at his shop in a market in Beijing, February 18, 2016. REUTERS/Jason Lee China vowed on Tuesday to contain high company debt levels and further cut excess coal and steel capacity, as Beijing attempts to maintain solid and more bala... More »
Cranes are seen above piles of steel pipes to be exported at a port in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China, December 1, 2015. REUTERS/China Daily/File Photo China’s exports and imports fell more than expected in October, with weak domestic and global demand a... More »
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe bows before praying at the altar during the funeral of late Prince Mikasa, uncle of the current Emperor Akihito, at the Toshimagaoka cemetery in Tokyo, Japan, November 4, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai – RTX2RU0K Japan on Tuesday ra... More »
Carissa Sellards, a sophomore at WVU-Charleston, sits at a coffee shop in Charleston, West Virginia, U.S. August 23, 2016. REUTERS/Valerie Volcovici When Carissa Sellards talks to her West Virginia University friends about post-graduation plans, one dilemma ke... More »
A former senior Chinese energy official found to have more than 200 million yuan ($29.99 million) in cash at his home has been given a suspended death penalty after being found guilty of corruption, state news agency Xinhua said on Monday. More »
Banks in the central Chinese province of Henan have pledged to extend more than 450 billion yuan ($67.47 billion) in new loans to “key sectors” this year to aid their restructuring efforts, the local regulator said in a notice published on Sunday. More »
The John Amos coal-fired power plant is seen behind a home in Poca, West Virginia May 18, 2014. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith/File Photo The 27 states challenging Obama’s Clean Power Plan in court say the lower emissions levels it would impose are an undue burden. ... More »
ULAANBAATAR U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hailed Mongolia as an “oasis of democracy” sitting in a tough location between Russia and China as he made a rare visit by a cabinet-level U.S. official on Sunday. Arriving from Paris, Kerry made the visit to Mong... More »
Bernie Sanders has another chance on Tuesday to slow Hillary Clinton’s march to the Democratic presidential nomination as West Virginians vote in their state’s primary, a week after Donald Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee. Clinton, a former secr... More »
SYDNEY Australian scientists said on Wednesday that just seven percent of the Great Barrier Reef, which attracts around A$5 billion ($3.90 billion) in tourism every year, has been untouched by mass bleaching that is likely to destroy half the coral. Bleaching ... More »
BEIJING China said on Monday it expects to lay off 1.8 million workers in the coal and steel industries, or about 15 percent of the workforce, as part of efforts to reduce industrial overcapacity, but no timeframe was given. It was the first time China has giv... More »
GRAND FORKS, N.D. In a basement lab of a North Dakota research center, Beth Kurz and an assistant are peering through a scanning electron microscope, studying samples from the state’s vast Bakken shale oil formation. Kurz, a hydrogeologist, is part of a team, ... More »
OSLO Oslo’s main waste incinerator began the world’s first experiment to capture carbon dioxide from the fumes of burning rubbish on Monday, hoping to develop technology to enlist the world’s trash in slowing global warming. The test at the Klemetsrud incinera... More »
OSLO A record-breaking string of hot years since 2000 is almost certainly a sign of man-made global warming, with vanishingly small chances that it was caused by random, natural swings, a study showed on Monday. Last year was the hottest since records began in... More »
BEIJING China’s output of electric power and steel fell for the first time in decades in 2015, while coal production dropped for a second year in row, illustrating how a slowing economy and shift to consumer-led growth is hurting industrial consumers. China’s ... More »
PARIS Poring over a Bangladeshi flood map as a London financial analyst 12 years ago, Mark Campanale had no idea the moment would spawn a financial concept powerful enough to rivet central bankers, anger oil moguls and fuel a grassroots movement to get investo... More »
NEW YORK Oil ended up on Wednesday as a weaker dollar and lower U.S. crude stockpiles provided a modest bounce off six-year lows hit the previous session, when worries about China’s plummeting currency and economic slowdown deflated prices. Concerns that U.S. ... More »
(Corrects fifth paragraph to delete reference to President Barack Obama acting by executive order) By Jeff Mason and Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama challenged America and the world to step up efforts to fight global warming on ... More »
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama will unveil on Monday the final version of his plan to tackle greenhouse gases from coal-fired power plants, kicking off what is expected to be a tumultuous legal battle between federal environmental regulators and coal indust... More »
WASHINGTON The White House said it will launch the first ever rule on Monday to cut carbon emissions from power plants, a plan that opponents in the coal industry and their political allies will fight in the courts. In a fact sheet issued on Sunday, the White ... More »
WILLIAMSON, WV With coal trains chugging past in the distance, Jack Perry watches as his wife, Margie, plants row upon row of Hungarian pepper seedlings in the community garden that residents of this West Virginia coal town call the “Garden of Eatin’.” “Th... More »
WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled the Obama administration should have considered compliance cost when it decided to limit emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants mainly from coal-fired power plants, a setback for the government... More »
