Duke: No More Coal
As a rule I don't link to Instagram, but it's cool that these kids made this video.
"Shut down all coal plants by 2030! Until then, young Hoosiers will continue to fight for our future"
Surface coal mining worsened deadly Eastern Kentucky floods in July 2022, study shows
"With surface coal mining, trees and soil are removed, and rock on the side and top of a mountain is blown off with explosives to reach a coal seam underneath... study shows surface coal mining made the floods “significantly worse.”
Why a giant coal merger matters to Class I railroads
Wow. A thoughtful, careful analysis on how the walking dead coal industry affects railroads. Maybe next they'll consider the effects of the horse-and-buggy industry.
Why a giant coal merger matters to Class I railroads: Analysis - Trains
The Sierra Club has a lot of great reports and papers, which they hide deep inside a file repository so no one can find them.
Duke Energy owns part or all of the Clifty Creek (Madison, Indiana), East Bend (Rabbit Hash, Kentucky), Edwardsport (Edwardsport, Indiana), Gibson (Princeton, Indiana), Kyger Creek (Gallipolis, Ohio), coal plants. Each of these plants has one or more generating units which have not committed to retire prior to the end of the decade.
https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/default/files/2023-08/SierraClub-CoalUtilityFinancingReport.pdf
Activists urge Indiana to act on pollution violations at coal plant that's no longer closing
"The Merom coal plant in Sullivan was supposed to shut down in May 2023. Now that a coal mining subsidiary has purchased the plant, activists say it could run indefinitely and needs to be held accountable for water, air and solid waste violations."
#HoosierMast #coal #environment
Activists urge Indiana to act on pollution violations at coal plant that's no longer closing
A Indiana state Senate bill aims to ensure Indiana doesn’t transition away from coal “too quickly”.
Sen. Jean Leising (R-Oldenburg) is sponsoring the bill, which prevents coal plants from closing down just because they're environmental disasters or way more expensive than renewables or even gas. She wants them to stay open as long as they have a useful life.
Indiana uses more coal than any state other than Texas.
#INLegis #HoosierMast #coal #ClimateCrisis
Bill aims to prevent reliability issues when coal plants close early