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             By Madeleine Ngo The New York Times WASHINGTON>> Tiffany Berger spent more than a decade working at a coal-fired power plant in Coshocton County, Ohio, eventually becoming a unit operator making about $100,000 annually. But in 2020, American ...
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By Susan Montoya Bryan The Associated Press KIRTLAND, N.M. » The clamor of second-graders breaking away from lessons to form lunch lines has gotten quieter in a rural New Mexico community, where families losing coal jobs have been forced to pack up and leave in search of work.At Judy Nelson El...
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Some countries express disappointment on the final climate pact but say it’s better than nothing. By Seth Borenstein and Frank Jordans The Associated Press GLASGOW, SCOTLAND » Almost 200 nations accepted a compromise deal Saturday aimed at keeping a key global warming target alive, but it con...
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  By Bruce Finley The Denver Post COLORADO SPRINGS » Eighteen coal-fired power plants down. Another dozen to go as Colorado shifts its electricity supply system off fossil fuels. The latest shutdown at the massive Martin Drake Power Plant in downtown Colorado Springs last week brings the sh...
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Inside Climate NewsInside Clean Energy: Renewables are up and coal is down in most places, at a time of major changes in how we produce electricity. (extracted) By Dan Gearino August 5, 2021 The Energy Information Administration reported last week that, for the first time the US used more re...
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The largest coal-fired power plants keep on going, even as many smaller ones close. By Dan Gearino May 3, 2021 To survive among the shrinking fleet of U.S. coal-fired power plants, it helps to be extremely big. On April 22, American Electric Power announced that it would close the Rockpo...
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  By Paul Krugman © The New York Times Co. “Change is coming, whether we seek it or not.” So declares a remarkable document titled “Preserving Coal Country,” released Monday by the United Mine Workers of America, in which the union — which at its peak represented half a million workers — acc...
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Low costs of wind and solar power helped renewables pass coal in electricity generation; gas remains the leader. By Dan Gearino February 26, 2021 In a year of pandemic illness and chaotic politics, there also was a major milestone in the transition to clean energy: U.S. renewable energy sour...
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By Veronica Penney © The New York Times Co. The share of energy generated from coal has dropped more sharply during the coronavirus pandemic than that of any other power source, according to a new report Monday that looked at coal demand in some of the world’s largest emitters of greenhouse ga...
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By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post, 6-18-2020 The Platte River Power Authority said Tuesday that it will retire a coal-fired power plant by 2030, 16 years earlier than planned. The closure of the Rawhide Unit 1 northwest of Wellington and the end of Platte River’s ownership interest when a power pla...
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Shared from the 6/4/2020 The Denver Post eEdition FORT COLLINS»A group of 57 businesses, environmental groups and other organizations has petitioned the board of the Platte River Power Authority to narrow its options for future electrical generation so that the utility’s primary coal-fired generato...
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TNYT, May 13, 2020 Brad Plumer  WASHINGTON — The United States is on track to produce more electricity this year from renewable power than from coal for the first time on record, new government projections show, a transformation partly driven by the coronavirus pandemic, with profound implicat...
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