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Coal

August 2026

  • Low-angle view of a striped NextDC data centre building against a dark sky

    The datacentre power spat highlights a hidden truth: we’re not building renewables fast enough to meet our needs

    Alison Reeve
    A battle over datacentre power sources is only part of the picture. Australia needs a much bigger electricity system to meet all future demand
  • A worker drives past Yallourn power station in Victoria, Australia

    The end of Latrobe Valley coal – in pictures

    Once the economic lifeblood of the region, Latrobe Valley’s coal industry is in terminal decline
    Gallery13

    • Pollutionwatch
      What happens to people’s health when air pollution is reduced?

    • India fuels worldwide jump in planned coal production

    • Police drop charges against 125 Rising Tide protesters two years after Newcastle port blockade

July 2026

  • A Caterpillar haul truck moves overburden at an open cut coal mine

    Adani to pay no company tax despite $1bn revenue from Queensland coalmine

  • Aerial views of the Hunter Valley Operations in NSW

    Locals fear for their children’s quality of life if the biggest coalmine extension in NSW is approved

  • A stacker-reclaimer at the Newcastle Coal Terminal in Newcastle, Australia

    Bank of England to stop accepting bonds linked to coal for key loans

  • An iron ore mining truck

    Australia’s fuel tax break slowing BHP’s decarbonisation, mining giant’s investors warned

  • The great carbon capture con: behold the wasted billions Burnham could claw back

    George Monbiot

  • Coal is back in AustralianSuper’s portfolio. What happened to that net zero pledge?

June 2026

  • Smokestacks billow steam and pollution into the air.

    Appeals court rejects Trump EPA bid to abandon rule restricting deadly soot pollution

    Decision leaves in place Biden-era standard on pollution from coal-fired plants, factories and other industrial sources
  • Large haul trucks carrying coal travel on wet dirt roads at an open-cut mining site

    Coal companies to reap billions more in taxpayer diesel subsidies as Labor approves new mining

    Albanese government under pressure to wind back fuel tax credit scheme for multinational miners as analysis shows cost to budget

    • The alternatives
      From coal to cabernet: the wine seller using a flooded mine to cut heating bills

    • Trump wants to put a $75m coal terminal in this liberal California city. Residents aren’t having it

    • Trump uses wartime powers to dole out $700m to ‘clean, beautiful’ coal

May 2026

  • The two giant chimney stacks crashed to the ground, three years after the defunct Liddell coal-fired power plant was decommissioned

    Decommissioned power station's chimneys crash to the ground in livestreamed demolition – video

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  • Adam Morton

    The BHP files
    Australian taxpayers subsidise Big Mining’s use of fossil fuel to the tune of $4bn a year. It’s a strange way to tackle emissions

    Adam Morton
  • Two Wayuu women stand in an overgrown field under a tree with yellow flowers

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    First there were coalmines, then came the windfarms. Why Colombia’s Wayúu people fear the green energy boom

  • Alexander Hurst

    Trump and his oil-and-coal oligarchy should face sanctions for their war on the environment

    Alexander Hurst
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