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New research shows use of the polluting fossil fuel to generate electricity has fallen in almost every coal-burning country across the region
The news follows German electric utility RWE’s announcement to close its 1.56GW coal plant in Wales next March
The firm claims it has extracted roughly 39,000 tonnes of coal to date and believes there is in excess of 340,000 tonnes exposed in the pit
The movement, which has 3,968 signatories, hopes to see the social media giant stop advertising oil, coal and gas power
Chief Engineer at the country’s Federal Power Ministry, Ghanshyam Prasad, said coal capacity is likely to reach 238GW by 2022
The nation’s Coal Minister, Pralhad Joshi, said national supply hit 991.35 million tonnes in 2018/2019
Coordinated by the Ende Gelände alliance, activists crossed fields and broke through a police cordon to get into the Garzweiler mine in North-Rhine Westphalia
It will depend on how many suspended nuclear reactors resume operation
By cutting the polluting fossil fuel out of the energy mix, the country has cut five million tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
A new report shows there was more biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar and wind capacity installed on the US grid in April than plants set up to burn the fossil fuel
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