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Coal

June 2026

  • workers in heavy machinery transport coal

    Trump uses wartime powers to dole out $700m to ‘clean, beautiful’ coal

    US president announces plans for two new coal plants, in Alaska and West Virginia, using Defense Production Act

May 2026

  • The two giant chimney stacks crashed to the ground, three years after the defunct Liddell coal-fired power plant was decommissioned

    Decommissioned power station's chimneys crash to the ground in livestreamed demolition – video

    The two giant chimney stacks crashed to the ground, three years after the defunct Liddell coal-fired power plant was decommissioned
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  • Adam Morton

    The BHP files
    double quotation markAustralian taxpayers subsidise Big Mining’s use of fossil fuel to the tune of $4bn a year. It’s a strange way to tackle emissions

    Adam Morton
    Given the scale of its contribution to global heating, the world’s biggest miner has a duty to invest heavily in solutions that could have a global impact

    • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
      First there were coalmines, then came the windfarms. Why Colombia’s Wayúu people fear Colombia’s green energy boom

    • double quotation markTrump and his oil-and-coal oligarchy should face sanctions for their war on the environment

      Alexander Hurst

    • ‘Wake-up call’: methane emissions from Australian coalmines more than double official estimates, report finds

April 2026

  • Colombia's environment minister, Irene Vélez Torres, (left) with her Netherlands counterpart, Stientje van Veldhoven, at the climate conference in Santa Marta.

    ‘Historic breakthrough’: Colombia climate talks end with hopes raised for fossil fuel phaseout

  • Visitors dressed as miners simulate the work of cutting logs underground

    The Guardian picture essay
    Europe’s last coal – a photo essay

  • Pictured: A coal stacker pours coal into piles ready for export in Newcastle, NSW. About 80% of Australia’s coalmines pumped more emissions into the atmosphere during the last financial year than their government-imposed limit, new data shows

    Australia’s coalmine emissions are increasing. Is this how a major policy to cut climate pollution is meant to work?

  • The Vales Point power station, operated by Delta Electricity in the Lake Macquarie region of NSW, pictured in 2005. The coalmine has been extended for two years in spite of climate experts' warnings

    NSW coalmine given two-year extension despite climate agency warning it jeopardises legislated emissions target

  • US agency proposes rolling back rules for safe disposal of toxic coal ash

  • The big emitters
    As Iran war exposes global dependence on fossil fuels, the biggest emitters are reaping the rewards

  • How Trump’s Iran war could make the world more reliant on coal

  • Asia ramps up use of dirty fuels to cover energy shortfall triggered by Iran war

March 2026

  • NSW premier Chris Minns and natural resources minister Courtney Houssos

    NSW will continue to greenlight coalmine expansions – ignoring a warning from its own climate agency

  • Hail Creek coal mine in central Queensland

    ‘Beggars belief’: calls for federal intervention after extension to ‘carbon bomb’ open-cut coalmine approved by Queensland government

February 2026

  • a coal plant by a house

    Most US coal plants could meet air pollution rules. Trump weakened them anyway

  • emissions rise from smokestacks

    Trump’s EPA to roll back rule limiting hazardous mercury from coal plants

  • The Middlemount coalmine and surrounding landscape in Queensland's Bowen Basin, Australia

    What the Albanese government did on the environment amid the Liberals’ turmoil: threatened species, a new coal project and carbon leakage

  • The Middlemount coal mine and surrounding landscape in Queensland's Bowen basin. Australia

    Qld coalmine expansion approved by Albanese government will clear habitat and fuel climate crisis, scientists say

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