Coal India signs MoU for environmental audit of mines

The MoU with Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education will facilitate eco-restoration of 430 mines

CAG picks holes in coal auctions

The report highlights that there are inaccuracies and inconsistencies in valuation of auctioned mines

Boosting industry will tax resources base

Budgetary provisions aimed at giving a fillip to industry, will add to the burden on the country's resources.

Gasbagging

How good are the North's offers of joint implementation programmes with the South to cut the latter's carbon dioxide emissions?

From the wick to the bulb

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Simply Put: Canary, not coal mine

People out, miners in

Deocha-Pachami mining project: Bengal CM proposes heftier compensation. Here‘s why locals aren‘t convinced

The project will impact 4,314 households

Green norms breach: 15 coal-firing power plants fined Rs 38 cr

Units ordered to deposit penalties by June 5; Central Pollution Control Board may pursue closure orders

India, Indonesia, Bangladesh & Vietnam host to most under-construction coal projects worldwide: Report

Building new unabated coal power plants must stop to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to analysis

Water barter

Corn against mercury

Off with their heads!

Clean impression: Ironers in Bengaluru ditch coal irons for LPG alternatives to beat harmful fumes

Ironers on average save 133 minutes a day with LPG irons and are able to press 9-12 clothes more; they also save around Rs 850 on fuel a month, …

CSE welcomes much-awaited Delhi government notification on approved fuel list

Notification mandates use of only cleaner fuels and bars all toxic and polluting fuels from being used in the city

Fears raised over private coal-mining plan

A private firm, Eastern ANning Ud, is scheduled to boon large-scale operations in a sao" already ravaged by several small mining ventures. …

Quarry in quagmire

Caught in a death trap, Jharia residents await doomsday. While BCCL openly displays a let-them-die attitude and the government remains silent, …

Record demand for coal power in 2021, way off Net Zero: IEA

Carbon emissions from coal will be 3 gigatonnes higher in 2024 than required to achieve Net Zero emissions by 2050

MoEF&CC slows down wheels in motion for biomass co-firing in coal-based thermal power plants

Less than 1% coal replaced by biomass co-firing in Delhi-NCR, intense demand and supply gap, finds study by CSE

Is coal mineral or bioresource?

Biodiversity board in Madhya Pradesh challenges coal companies

Will Chhattisgarh’s proposed elephant reserve have a smooth corridor

Two ministers of state cabinet at loggerheads as Union coal ministry eyes coal blocks inside proposed reserve

To fast track India’s industrial growth, FM gives sops to mining

Environmentalists say ministry of finance apathetic towards social environmental consequences

Environment takes back seat: MoEFCC extends SOx compliance deadline again

Non-retiring plants get 2-year extension, retiring plants get till 2027

Europe hypocrisy: Amid shift to coal, what about climate goals?

Europe is buying coal, firing up plants amid Russian sanctions to meet electricity demand pushed up by heatwaves

Making power needs more energy than it yields