India’s environment ministry mandates workplace health measures for new thermal power plants
India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has mandated that all new thermal…
Fossil Fuels
IEA: Global coal use possibly peaked in 2014
IEA’s World Energy Outlook (2018) estimates that global coal use may have peaked in 2014,…
Carbon Tracker: Solar and wind energy could strand coal power worth $60billion in SE Asia
Carbon Tracker has warned that tighter controls on carbon emissions – and cheaper solar and…
Railways to expand India’s coal freight corridors, Centre prioritizes coal supplies to publicly-owned plants
Indian Railways is planning 84 new projects – spanning 9,259km — to boost the country’s…
World Bank drops Kosovo C, Delhi shuts down Badarpur coal plant
World Bank has announced it will not be financing the 500MW Kosovo C coal plant…
Standard Chartered to quit direct financing of new coal power, joined by CANDRIAM
Standard Chartered PLC has announced it will stop financing any new coal-fired power capacity –…
Supreme Court orders Centre to reduce emissions from 57 coal plants by Dec ’21
Fifty-seven Centre-owned thermal power plants in some of India’s most polluted areas now have 28…
Tata and Adani Power likely to buyout two major stressed assets
Two major coal-fired stressed assets – Pragyaraj Power’s 1,980MW super-critical plant in Uttar Pradesh and GMR Infrastructure’s 1,370MW…
Centre bans petcoke imports – partially
The Centre has banned the import of petcoke for use as industrial fuel, days after admitting to…
Data secrecy killing Singrauli, courts need “hard evidence”
10 years after their district was declared “critically polluted” residents of “energy capital” Singrauli struggle…