The Madness of King Coal
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Leave it to cowboy capitalism and Texas to come up with a weird monster energy deal involving a dozen new coal plants and a green $44 billion buyout that would scuttle some of the plants. In Epicenter.
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Newmont Mining Corporation, the world's biggest gold producer, has been trailed by allegations of pollution.
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A bankrupt Japanese coal town may provide a glimpse  of a grim future to a country riddled with debt and an aging, shrinking population
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When railroads ruled, it was the sweating firemen shoveling coal into the furnace who kept the engines running.
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Rio Tinto Ltd/Plc , fighting a takeover approach from rival BHP Billiton Ltd/Plc  and scurrying to capture more of the global commodities boom, churned out record tonnages of iron ore, copper and other industrial minerals in 2007.
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A rattled industry keeps on rolling, but between diesel prices and rising demand, it's a bumpy ride.
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One of the country's few remaining coal mines is to close, the owners say.
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ROHNE, Germany -- Underneath the marshy ground here is a huge deposit of cheap brown coal -- manna for a nearby power plant that is among the biggest emitters of global warming gases in Europe. The presence of the fuel may mean that this village and its 680 residents have to go, moved out by the...
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Business & money: Merger fever is sweeping the macho, cash-rich mining sector, but there are more than just egos involved
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The Department of the Interior is about to approve a regulation that would allow and even encourage mountain top mining, which involves blasting off the top of a mountain and dumping the remains in nearby valleys and streams. Yes, that's as bad for the environment as it sounds.
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Drivers spend hours, sometimes days, waiting in traffic, a small example of the epic scale, and epic inefficiency, of ChinaÂs coal economy.
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A pair of accidents that killed more than 300 miners has underscored the human price China pays for its booming economy and ravenous appetite for coal, an industry that's seen more than 4,500 workers killed on the job this year.
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Tycho:  After seeing Chore Wars mentioned yesterday, the opportunities for manipulating people seemed...  rich.  The possibilities for mashups based on this data are also rich - I wonder if it could be exposed, somehow.  When my charge is old enough to manipulate in this way, my crib is going to fucking sparkle.
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The mayor of Missoula, Mont., is the latest person to discover just how unpopular coal plants have become.
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This ETF gives you exposure to coal producers around the world.
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Enslaved by a rising demand for energy, China is struggling to rid itself of thousands of small and deadly mines that make its coal industry the most dangerous in the world.
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Outdoor wood-fired boilers are a fast-growing alternative energy fad â and for some, the latest suburban scourge.