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Nippon Steel to invest in Canadian coal company; steelmaking coal offtake agreement

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EVR), which will be spun-off from Teck as an independent publicly-listed Canadian company and will own and operate the steelmaking coal business previously conducted by Teck. Through the investment, Nippon Steel expects to diversify its business portfolio to be more resilient to the changes in the external business environment.

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CicLaVia is Back This Sunday & We’ll Be Rolling Against Coal!

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My favorite part of this next CicLaVia is t he Bike Parade coming from my friends at Greenpeace and Sierra Club which they’re calling ROLL AGAINST COAL. In case you didn’t know, the City of Los Angeles still gets 40% of its electricity from coal-fired power plants, the dirtiest polluters and greenhouse gassers on the planet.

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thyssenkrupp greenlights construction of €2B hydrogen-powered direct reduction plant for low-CO2 steel

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The release of this enormous investment comes in the midst of the company’s transformation, in what is also for all concerned an extremely challenging environment. As part of its tkH2Steel transformation project, coal-based blast furnaces will be replaced by hydrogen-powered direct reduction plants. Capacity will be 2.5

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Transform Materials plasma process converts abundant natural gas into high-value hydrogen and acetylene

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But methane is extremely inert in an oxygen-free environment and resists chemical reactions. For example, Transform Materials can fully utilize coalbed methane from coal mining operators to produce green hydrogen to power heavy equipment and hauling trucks. Oxidation of methane also introduces impurities in the product stream.

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Australia establishes coal seam gas scientific research alliance

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Australia’s CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia’s national science agency) and Australia Pacific LNG (a coal seam gas to LNG joint venture between Origin and ConocoPhillips) have launched a new research alliance to support the development of the coal seam gas (CSG) industry.

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West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd: Coal Must Embrace The Future

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” “ Some have even suggested that coal state representatives in Washington should block any advancement of national health care reform legislation until the coal industry’s demands are met by the EPA, ”, wrote Byrd. West Virginia is home to about 22,000 coal miners, down from 62,500 in 1979.

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Air Products and Topsoe sign global alliance agreement for collaboration on large-scale ammonia, methanol, and/or dimethyl ether projects

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The Alliance Agreement provides Air Products access to Topsoe’s technology license(s) and the supply of certain engineering design, equipment, high-performance catalysts and technical services for ammonia, methanol and/or dimethyl ether plants to be built, owned and operated by Air Products.

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