As major consumers of the world's energy resources, the United States and China are in dire
need of secure energy solutions that can keep pace with their large appetites for energy …

Coal is not always seen as a route to sustainable development; renewable energy, energy
efficiency and a move away from fossil fuels are what people usually have in mind. The …

COAL, THE rock that fueled the industrial age, is once again remaking the global energy
landscape. Over the past decade, while most of the world stood transfixed by the gyrations of …

Cheap, plentiful and the most polluting of fossil fuels, coal remains the single largest source
of energy to generate electricity worldwide. This, even as renewables like solar and wind …

Coal fuels about 50 percent of US electricity production and provides a quarter of the
country's total energy. China and India's ferocious economic growth is based almost entirely …

Coal reserves: The US has the world's largest recoverable coal reserves [1], about 250
years worth at the current consumption rate of about one billion tons/year. The quality of the …

Energy acts as a key contributor in the improvement of society, economy, and our lives.
Rapid economic growth in China over the past 30 years resulted in massive energy …

China's energy-development pathway has increasingly become a topic of international
attention, particularly as China has become the largest national source of annual …

Over the past decade, the coal industry has created a multi-million dollar public relations
campaign to insulate coal from the green energy revolution and the anticipated public …

The Low Carbon Economy Act of 2007 (S. 1766), recently introduced by Sen. Jeff Bingaman
(D-NM) and six of his colleagues, provides a useful framework for spurring greenhouse gas …