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samenome<p>As ridiculous as <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Trumps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trumps</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> are, I feel that <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Australians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Australians</span></a> should be more aware that that we don't levy anywhere close to 10% on the companies that extract <a href="https://aus.social/tags/coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coal</span></a> and <a href="https://aus.social/tags/gas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gas</span></a> from our land.</p><p>Not even close.</p><p>If he didn't hand it straight back to the fossil fuel companies (who the fuck am I kidding?) then the US would get more money from Australian fossil fuels than <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a> does.</p>
☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻<p>Day eleven: ☢️💧</p><p>“About 90% of the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> generation capacity the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Coalition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coalition</span></a> proposes to build would not have access to enough water to run safely, according to a report commissioned by <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/LiberalsAgainstNuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiberalsAgainstNuclear</span></a>.</p><p>The report authored by Prof. <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AndrewCampbell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AndrewCampbell</span></a>, a visiting fellow at the Australian National University (<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ANU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ANU</span></a>) , assessed nuclear energy’s <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>water</span></a> needs and the available <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/supply" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>supply</span></a> across the seven sites where the Coalition has proposed new reactors.”</p><p>“Well done Angus”</p><p>If you remember the member for <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Hume" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hume</span></a> is insisting the Federal Government if the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/LNP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LNP</span></a> wins election will purchase, run and make a profit using nuclear power. </p><p>No mention of locations of power generation sites (I assume existing sites) nor is there any mention of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/geological" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geological</span></a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/enviromental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enviromental</span></a> or <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a> disposal studies.</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Liberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liberal</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/NuclearPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPower</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ClimateEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateEmergency</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/gas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gas</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coal</span></a> &lt;<a href="https://theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/09/not-enough-water-available-for-coalitions-nuclear-proposal-to-run-safely-report-finds" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/environment/20</span><span class="invisible">25/apr/09/not-enough-water-available-for-coalitions-nuclear-proposal-to-run-safely-report-finds</span></a>&gt;</p>
Doug Bostrom<p>"In an emailed statement, Kit Kennedy, managing director for power at the Natural Resources Defense Council, questioned whether a mandate for Americans to commute by horse and buggy would be next. It’s a fitting sentiment because the fact that I’m even writing a story in 2025 about why trying to revive coal is a bad idea feels ludicrous. Trump seems to forget he’s not William McKinley and this isn’t 1900."</p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coal</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://electrek.co/2025/04/08/coal-is-dead-and-trumps-executive-order-wont-revive-it/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">electrek.co/2025/04/08/coal-is</span><span class="invisible">-dead-and-trumps-executive-order-wont-revive-it/</span></a></p>
Old White Dude<p>You want to breath clean air &amp; drink fresh water? Felon Trump’s actions say, “forget it!”</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/cleanair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cleanair</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/cleanwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cleanwater</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/uspolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/felontrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>felontrump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climatechange</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-executive-order-coal/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbsnews.com/news/trump-executi</span><span class="invisible">ve-order-coal/</span></a></p>
ˈdälfən™🐬 💥 🌊<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> is supporting the struggling US coal industry. Now why would he do that considering the world uses less <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coal</span></a> than other energy sources? I mean, he wants to increase the USA’s exports, right? 🧐<br>But:</p><p>1) He is drawing the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> inward w/ protectionism. The US has a lot of coal it could use for fuel, esp. w/ increased production &amp; AI</p><p>2) He favors certain industry niches over others (soo free market of him 🙄)</p><p>3) He sees no problems w/ coal &amp; thinks it’s “clean” &amp; “beautiful”</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Well, there it is…</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> has signed <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveOrders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveOrders</span></a> aimed at reviving the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coal</span></a> industry.</p><p>The moves include loosening <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environmental</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/regulations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>regulations</span></a>.</p><p>Trump signed 4 EOs Tues aimed at expanding the mining &amp; use of coal in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a>.</p><p>Flanked by dozens of miners in white hard hats [<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>propaganda</span></a> photo op], Trump said he was instructing the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a> to identify &amp; fight state policies &amp; regulations that were “putting our coal miners out of business.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/climate/trump-order-coal-mining.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;sgrp=p&amp;pvid=5781E5BA-F178-4261-92CB-848513C43ED2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/04/08/climate</span><span class="invisible">/trump-order-coal-mining.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;sgrp=p&amp;pvid=5781E5BA-F178-4261-92CB-848513C43ED2</span></a></p>
Barbara Monaco<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@dalfen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dalfen</span></a></span> He can write EOs all day, from here to eternity, but coal is not coming back in any significant way. It will never again be a large scale employer.<br>I noticed the CORE patches on the uniforms. Looked it up. It's a corporation founded 3 months ago by merging two established companies. They specialize in "long wall" mining, a highly automated technique. It is also a disaster for the environment.<br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coal</span></a><br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a><br> <a href="https://www.citizenscoalcouncil.org/longwall-mining.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">citizenscoalcouncil.org/longwa</span><span class="invisible">ll-mining.html</span></a></p>
Bob LeFridge :tinoflag:<p>The orange bloviator is churning out executive orders to bring back coal.</p><p>He's ordered the justice department to “vigorously pursue and investigate” the “unconstitutional” policies of “radically leftist states” that “discriminate against coal”.</p><p>Say what?</p><p>While he's repeated his line that "climate change will create more waterfront property”, it's worth remembering that one day soonish, Mar-a-Lago will be underwater.</p><p>From Guardian live feed:<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/apr/08/donald-trump-threatens-tariffs-50-per-cent-china-us-politics-latest-updates-news" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/live/2</span><span class="invisible">025/apr/08/donald-trump-threatens-tariffs-50-per-cent-china-us-politics-latest-updates-news</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coal</span></a></p>
Vittoria Pirone 🇪🇺<p>President Donald Trump has signed executive orders Tuesday aimed at boosting coal, a reliable but polluting energy source that’s long been in decline. Trump will use his emergency authority to allow some older coal-fired power plants set for retirement to keep producing electricity to meet rising U.S. power demand amid growth in data centers, artificial intelligence and electric cars. FRANCE 24's Siobhan Silke reports.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pollution</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih3ZlO1uZ6k" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=Ih3ZlO1uZ6k</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
formuchdeliberation<p>Trump expected to sign order to allow coal-fired power plants to remain open | Trump administration | The Guardian…</p><p>Donald Trump is expected to sign executive orders on Tuesday aimed at reviving <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coal</span></a>, the dirtiest fossil fuel that has long been in decline, and which substantially contributes to planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pollution</span></a>... continue reading at the Guardian <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/trumpadministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trumpadministration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>energy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/greenhousegases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>greenhousegases</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/carbonemissions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>carbonemissions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/climatecrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climatecrisis</span></a>…</p><p><a href="https://formuchdeliberation.wordpress.com/2025/04/08/trump-expected-to-sign-order-to-allow-coal-fired-power-plants-to-remain-open-trump-administration-the-guardian/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">formuchdeliberation.wordpress.</span><span class="invisible">com/2025/04/08/trump-expected-to-sign-order-to-allow-coal-fired-power-plants-to-remain-open-trump-administration-the-guardian/</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>Bad Air</p><p>"An estimated 7,000 citizens of this vast, thinly populated country of 3.48 million have died this winter due to air pollution, indoors and out."</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/apr/08/everyone-is-breathing-this-how-just-trying-to-stay-warm-is-killing-thousands-a-year-in-the-worlds-coldest-city" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/global-develop</span><span class="invisible">ment/2025/apr/08/everyone-is-breathing-this-how-just-trying-to-stay-warm-is-killing-thousands-a-year-in-the-worlds-coldest-city</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AirPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AirPollution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mongolia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mongolia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ulaanbaatar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ulaanbaatar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coal</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Inane </p><p>“Today at 3PM, President Trump will sign an Executive Order to reinvigorate AFFORDABLE, RELIABLE, AND CLEAN COAL!” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on X on Tuesday. “Coal is critical to achieving American Energy and AI Dominance.”<br>
While the phrase “clean coal” is popular among <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s allies, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coal</span></a> is by far the dirtiest of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuels</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conservation</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wildlife</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> will also task the newly created National Energy Dominance Council with designating <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coal</span></a> as a mineral [umm, but, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a>], a White House ofcl said. This classification will allow coal to benefit from a prior executive order that directed agencies to fast-track the permitting process for new mines on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicLands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicLands</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conservation</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wildlife</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuels</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> will direct federal agencies to loosen various restrictions on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coal</span></a> mining, leasing &amp; exports. He will instruct the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Interior" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Interior</span></a> Dept to resume coal leasing on millions of acres of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicLands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicLands</span></a>, &amp; he will order the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Energy</span></a> Dept &amp; other agencies to study whether more coal-fired <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> plants can supply <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/electricity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>electricity</span></a> for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialIntelligence</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DataCenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataCenters</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conservation</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wildlife</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuels</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Get ready for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BlackLung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackLung</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> set to sign <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveOrders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveOrders</span></a> to boost <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coal</span></a></p><p>When burned, coal releases more of the main <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GreenhouseGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreenhouseGas</span></a> carbon dioxide than any other <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FossilFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuel</span></a>. It also emits criteria <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/pollutants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pollutants</span></a> that are blamed for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/lung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lung</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/heart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>heart</span></a> illnesses. Much of its use has declined on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/regulations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>regulations</span></a> from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a>, including President Joe <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/trump-sign-executive-orders-boost-coal-industry-sources-say-2025-04-08/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/business/energy/tr</span><span class="invisible">ump-sign-executive-orders-boost-coal-industry-sources-say-2025-04-08/</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today In Labor History April 8, 1864: The 13th amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, banning chattel slavery. However, it permitted a continuation of wage slavery and the forced labor of convicts without pay. And on this date in 1911, 128 convict miners, mostly African-Americans jailed for minor offenses, were killed by a massive explosion at the Banner coalmine near Birmingham, Alabama. While the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, which occurred just two weeks earlier, elicited massive public attention and support for the plight of immigrant women working in sweatshop conditions, the Banner explosion garnered almost no public sympathy, probably due to racism and the fact that they were prisoners. </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/prisonlabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prisonlabor</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/prisoner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prisoner</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/slavelabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slavelabor</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slavery</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workplacesafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workplacesafety</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/alabama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alabama</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackMastadon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMastadon</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/triangleshirtwaist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>triangleshirtwaist</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fire</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/explosion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>explosion</span></a></p>
Xamanismo Coletivo<p>"Due to a lack of housing in <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Ulaanbaatar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ulaanbaatar</span></a>, people build <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/gers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gers</span></a> – circular white tents clad with felt around a thin latticed-wood frame. The structures have no running water and a central stove feeds out through a chimney pipe in the roof. Pit latrines are dug outside. More than 50% of <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Mongolia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mongolia</span></a>’s population live in gers, with about 800,000 people in Ulaanbaatar alone – about half the city’s population. An estimated 196,000 domestic <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/chimneys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chimneys</span></a> puff <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coal</span></a> fumes into the dry city air, with each household burning an average of 23kg of coal daily in winter."</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/apr/08/everyone-is-breathing-this-how-just-trying-to-stay-warm-is-killing-thousands-a-year-in-the-worlds-coldest-city" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/global-develop</span><span class="invisible">ment/2025/apr/08/everyone-is-breathing-this-how-just-trying-to-stay-warm-is-killing-thousands-a-year-in-the-worlds-coldest-city</span></a></p>
Paul Chambers🚧<p>Who monitors coal ash pits, dams and floodwater at former coal plants? The owner </p><p>This weighs heavy on my mind today because a few miles upstream of my rural Ohio village on the <a href="https://oldfriends.live/tags/OhioRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OhioRiver</span></a>, with 7-blocks of its 9-blocks under water and river flooded, is a decommissioned coal plant. The largest coal ash pit at the site is 163 acres, more than 2 miles long if you walk all the way around to where you started at. <a href="https://oldfriends.live/tags/Flooding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Flooding</span></a> <a href="https://oldfriends.live/tags/Ohio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ohio</span></a> <a href="https://oldfriends.live/tags/Coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coal</span></a> <a href="https://oldfriends.live/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/i-team/who-monitors-coal-ash-pits-dams-and-floodwater-at-former-beckjord-coal-plant-the-owner" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wcpo.com/news/local-news/i-tea</span><span class="invisible">m/who-monitors-coal-ash-pits-dams-and-floodwater-at-former-beckjord-coal-plant-the-owner</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"A bolder approach could let China phase down coal without causing power cuts, says Lauri Myllyvirta of the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (crea), a think-tank in Finland. It would need much more renewable power and big upgrades to China’s grid to let clean energy be transferred over long distances or stored (to offset for the fact it can be generated only when the sun shines or when the wind blows). China is already spending substantial amounts on trying to clean up. Clean-energy investments came to $940bn, or 10% of gdp, in 2024. In that year alone the country installed more solar-power capacity (277gw) than exists in the whole of the United States (200gw).</p><p>The bottleneck is that China lacks a flexible, nationwide power market that could ensure clean power is efficiently dispatched to where it is needed. At the moment most power is sold locally through long-term contracts, which typically favour coal-fired plants by guaranteeing the purchase of fixed amounts of power. Attempts to reform the system have been slow. In the last quarter of 2024 China’s wind and solar power use dropped in spite of favourable weather, as a result of an “oversupply” of coal-fired power, according to analysis by crea.</p><p>All this threatens to further entrench the role of coal in the power-generation system and will make it expensive to phase out, says Yan Qin of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. After all, the more plants that are built, the higher the cost of abandoning them."</p><p><a href="https://www.economist.com/china/2025/03/31/china-could-greatly-reduce-its-reliance-on-coal-it-probably-will-not" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">economist.com/china/2025/03/31</span><span class="invisible">/china-could-greatly-reduce-its-reliance-on-coal-it-probably-will-not</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coal</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuels</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Renewables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Renewables</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SolarPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SolarPower</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/WindPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WindPower</span></a></p>
☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻<p>Day nine</p><p>Not the Opposition leader making apologies for asking Canberra to go back to the Office to work, Not the, “I’m going to “sack the Public servants who do the Education👩‍🏫👨‍🏫 and Health things ⚕️🧑‍⚕️👩‍⚕️” (cite), but this from the Opposition Treasurer. ☢️🛢️</p><p>“Well done Angus”.</p><p>In an interview with ABC News Breakfast host James Glenday:</p><p>TAYLOR “We absolutely not backing down on that, I can assure you, James and we’re not backing down to making sure we drive down prices of electricity.”</p><p>GLENDAY asks how exactly the Coalition will pay for it?</p><p>TAYLOR “<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/NuclearPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPower</span></a> ☢️ is through to 2050, and it’s substantially lower than the cost of Labor’s policies.”</p><p>GLENDAY “It’s hundreds of billions of dollars no matter which way you twist it.”</p><p>TAYLOR “Well that’s the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/EnergySystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnergySystem</span></a>. The energy system much of which is paid for by a combination of the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/PrivateSector" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PrivateSector</span></a> and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/StateGovernments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StateGovernments</span></a>. The piece we will <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/finance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>finance</span></a>, of course, is the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/NuclearGenerators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearGenerators</span></a> which will deliver a return and that’s how we have modelled it, James.”</p><p>Well done Angus, now show me the costings?</p><p>With no plan, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Liberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liberal</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/LNP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LNP</span></a> make themselves open to critical analysis and thus reverse their decisions when deficiencies are pointed out. </p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Leadership" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Leadership</span></a> VS <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chaos</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Energy</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/SolarPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SolarPower</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/WindPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WindPower</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Gas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gas</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coal</span></a> &lt;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/apr/07/australia-election-2025-live-coalition-labor-federal-peter-dutton-anthony-albanese-job-cuts-redundancies-batteries-solar?page=with%3Ablock-67f2fc908f08f7ab2f00f00a#block-67f2fc908f08f7ab2f00f00a" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/australia-news</span><span class="invisible">/live/2025/apr/07/australia-election-2025-live-coalition-labor-federal-peter-dutton-anthony-albanese-job-cuts-redundancies-batteries-solar?page=with%3Ablock-67f2fc908f08f7ab2f00f00a#block-67f2fc908f08f7ab2f00f00a</span></a>&gt;</p>
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