Coal

Britain’s climate 'leadership' is based on the profoundly unjust and violent transition that was the defeat of the 1980s miners' strike.

Anti-coal campaigners are in court today in a final attempt to block the extension of a coal mine at Aberpergwm in south Wales.

Firm mined 270,000 tonnes of coal since planning permission ran out - more than planned extension had proposed.

Firm continues to mine coal at the UK’s largest open pit weeks after being refused planning permission for the activity.

Community fears for the restoration of the UK’s largest open pit coal mine.

Lützerath Lebt activists are in an ongoing struggle with German police, erecting barricades and blockading to prevent eviction.

The government’s recent approval of the proposal to open a new coking coal mine in West Cumbria is an example of such climate nationalism in action.

Friends of the Earth urges Michael Gove to reject planning permission for the Cumbrian coal mine branded 'absolutely indefensible' by government climate advisors.

Countries meeting in Copenhagen to assess action needed to deliver commitments made at Cop26 talks in Glasgow last November.

China’s national and provincial post-Covid recovery packages will put three times as much cash into fossil fuel projects as into renewable energy.

India is unable to shake off its ties to coal despite its commitment to renewable energy, giving rise to enormous social and environmental costs.

Banks Mining application for Highthorn near Druridge Bay, Northumberland, turned down by communities secretary Robert Jenrick.

Vigils in London and Bangladesh mark fourteenth anniversary of the Phulbari Massacre.

This weekend's wave of direct action in Germany shows that we can and should take climate justice into our own hands.

This intimate relationship between West Cumbria Mining and the quango tasked with delivering a controversial Geological Disposal Facility demands that questions are asked.

The UK government has spent nearly £4 billion pounds of UK public funding on fossil fuel infrastructure in the global south since the Paris Agreement was signed.

Deng Yingtao presented a scathing critique of economic growth thirty years ago - finally we must listen.

Minister will make announcement about Banks Mining's three million tonne open-cast mine beside Druridge Bay in Northumberland by April 7.

Carbon Tracker reports that it already costs less to generate power from installing new wind or solar farms than new coal plants.

The fossil fuel industry could take important measures to mitigate climate change, but devotes itself to the opposite. The real scandal is their unwillingness to invest in renewables.

Mining families from Durham teamed up with climate activists to halt the expansion of an open-cast coal mine.

Cumbrian campaign group granted permission for judicial review of county council’s approval of coal mine.

The Gond tribe of Hasdeo Arand, the largest and oldest stretch of forest land in central India, is on the verge of losing its home in the face of coal mining.

Extinction Rebellion has a lot to learn from Ende Gelände, the grassroots climate action group that is radical in theory and practice.