"Montana Mine Project Tangled In Coal Company Bankruptcy"
"Montana officials are proceeding cautiously with the $86 million Otter Creek Mine project now that developer Arch Coal has filed for bankruptcy."
Source: Billings Gazette, 01/13/2016
Economy & Business
"Arch Coal Files For Bankruptcy, Hit By Mining Downturn"
"Arch Coal, the second-largest U.S. coal miner, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday with a plan to cut $4.5 billion in debt from its balance sheet in the midst of a prolonged downturn in the coal industry."
Source: Reuters, 01/12/2016
"Oil Prices Slide Again, and the Bottom Is Not Yet in Sight"
"The continuing collapse in commodity prices pushed oil futures still lower Monday, and analysts predicted that the slide was far from over."
Source: NY Times, 01/12/2016
Archive: "The Great Republican Land Heist"
"Cliven Bundy and the politicians who are plundering the West".
Source: Harpers, 01/11/2016
The Year Ahead in Energy and the Environment: Stories to Watch in 2016
As the Paris climate agreement rolls out, the U.S. presidential race speeds up, and the Supreme Court weighs in, 2016 is already a banner year for environment and energy news. On February 11, the Society of Environmental Journalists and the Wilson Center's Environmental Change and Security Program presented our fourth annual “Year Ahead in Environment and Energy” event in Washington, DC. Leading reporters and editors discussed breaking news from the Supreme Court, climate accord prospects and other critical issues of 2016.
- Watch the webcast recap here. See photos here.
- "So This Is What Could Happen in 2016 in Environmental Policy News," Energy and Environment blog, Bloomberg BNA, Feb 11, 2016.
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"Monsanto Increases Job Cuts As Corn, Chemical Sales Slump"
"Monsanto Co said a souring farm economy and currency woes will push its 2016 earnings to the lower end of expectations, while a cost-cutting drive will lead the world's largest seed company to slash more jobs."
Source: Reuters, 01/07/2016
"Oil Prices Decline More Than 5 Percent as Stockpiles Increase"
"Oil prices plunged again on Wednesday by more than 5 percent as investors paid more attention to signs that global stockpiles are growing than to increasing instability in the Middle East and North Africa."
Source: NY Times, 01/07/2016
Where's That Meat From? One Problem with Trade Treaties
Do consumers have a right to know where their food comes from? What if there is a federal law decreeing that they have that right? Not anymore. None of that matters. International trade treaties — nowadays often negotiated in secret — trump United States law aimed at protecting consumers.
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"British Coal, the End of a Mining Industry"
"Yorkshire, United Kingdom - Coal miners at Yorkshire’s Kellingley Colliery, the only remaining deep-pit coal mine in Britain, worked their last shift on Friday December 18, bringing to an end hundreds of years of underground coal mining in the UK."
Source: Aljazeera, 01/06/2016
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