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Water stress poses risk to Chinese coal industry
Water poses a variety of business risks for the energy industry, and could play an influential role in shaping the future energy supply mix, according to Wood Mackenzie's latest research report: “Troubled waters ahead?...
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Coal Industry Eyes Comeback as Efficient Plants Encourage Use
Coal use in the U.S. is set to grow this year and next from a two-decade low as more efficient coal plants that can withstand new environmental regulations supplant old ones, an industry group predicted....
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Will Technology Save the Coal Industry—Again?
Throughout the 1990s, in the face of environmental rules targeting acid rain and other forms of air pollution, Appalachia coal cleaned up its act, literally. The industry innovated and installed new technology, called �...