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FirstEnergy Scraps 2030 Climate Goal in Rare Embrace of Coal

Two coal-fired plants are crucial to company’s power supplies Utilities under growing pressure to clean up generation fleets Bloombert FirstEnergy Corp. abandoned its 2030 target for slashing greenhouse-gas emissions because coal plants can’t be replaced in time, marking a major about-face in the movement to protect the climate. Utilities across the US have announced a slew …

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U.S. Thermal Coal Exports Hit 5-Year Highs and Top $5 billion in 2023

(Reuters) – United States exporters of thermal coal earned more than $5 billion in 2023 as they shipped out more than 32.5 million metric tons of the high-polluting power fuel, data from ship-tracking firm Kpler shows. The thermal coal export earnings were the second-highest since 2017, following 2022’s $5.7 billion. The total volumes were the …

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