The U.S. Interior Department has said it will try to overturn a Bush administration rule that made it easier for coal mining companies to dump mountaintop debris into valley streams. The action is the latest blow to the coal industry, which defends mountaintop mining as a safer, cheaper alternative to traditional underground mining.
NTPC announced that it is planning to acquire coal blocks in Indonesia and Mozambique later this year to increase its generation capacity by 22,430MW in three years. R.S. Sharma, CMD of NTPC, stated: We are planning to acquire four blocks in Indonesia and two in Mozambique by the end of this year. Coal from these [...]
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