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COAL

Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Apr 14, 2014
Renewables get raked over coals under Abe
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is pushing the coal industry to expand sales at home and abroad, undermining hopes among environmentalists that he'd use the Fukushima nuclear disaster to switch the nation to renewables.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 12, 2014
Shift to green energy would barely slow growth, U.N. report says
A radical shift from fossil fuels to low-carbon energy would slow world economic growth by only a tiny fraction every year, a new draft U.N. report on tackling global warming said on Friday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 15, 2013
LNG, coal use hits record amid zero nuclear power
Regional power utilities used a record amount of LNG and coal for October as they turned to fossil fuels to offset lost output from idled nuclear reactors.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 8, 2013
China must kick costly coal addiction
Thanks to extreme air pollution, foreign arrivals to China plunged by roughly 50 percent in the first three-quarters of the year. Beijing must kick its costly addiction to coal.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 11, 2013
Tepco boosts coal capacity to cut need for costly oil
Tokyo Electric Power Co. may cut its oil purchases by more than one-third as it boosts its reliance on coal plants to reduce an energy bill that's ballooned since the Fukushima nuclear crisis started.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Mar 4, 2013
Green turns black as Europe burns up cheap U.S. coal
Green-friendly Europe has a dirty secret: It is burning a lot more coal. Europe's use of the fossil fuel spiked last year after a long decline, powered by a surge of cheap U.S. coal on global markets and by the unintended consequences of ambitious climate policies that capped emissions and reduced reliance...

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