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End Of An Era: Peabody Declares Bankruptcy
End Of An Era: Peabody Declares Bankruptcy In a sign of the times, the world’s largest private sector coal miner just went bankrupt. The St. Louis-based Peabody Energy Corp. warned a month ago that it was considering filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and on Wednesday they made it official. Peabody’s mines will continue to operate uninterrupted […]
Major Climate Science Denial Groups Offer to Hide Fossil Fuel Funding, Greenpeace Investigation Finds
Major Climate Science Denial Groups Offer to Hide Fossil Fuel Funding, Greenpeace Investigation Finds An undercover investigation by environment group Greenpeace has found some of the world’s most vocal climate science denial groups were willing to accept cash from fossil fuel interests in return for writing articles and reports that reject the impacts of greenhouses gases. Greenpeace operatives […]
Groups Hand 360,000 Signatures to Justice Department Calling for “Exxon Knew” Probe
Groups Hand 360,000 Signatures to Justice Department Calling for “Exxon Knew” Probe With the hottest October in world history recorded recently, a slew of advocacy groups have delivered 360,000 petition signatures to the U.S. Department of Justice, calling for a probe of petrochemical industry giant ExxonMobil’s history of funding climate change denial despite what the company knew about climate science. The […]
Peabody Energy ‘Experts’ Sow Doubt About Reality of Climate Change
Peabody Energy ‘Experts’ Sow Doubt About Reality of Climate Change According to publicly available court records, US coal company Peabody Energyrecently submitted expert testimony to the Minnesota Public Utilities commission arguing that, ”CO2 is not harmful and is actually good for the planet” and that “there is no empirical scientific evidence for significant climate effects of rising CO2 levels, […]
Peabody Energy to White House: Greenhouse Gas a ‘Non-Existent Harm’
Peabody Energy to White House: Greenhouse Gas a ‘Non-Existent Harm’ In an official submission to the White House earlier this year, U.S. coal giant Peabody Energy claims that greenhouse gas is a “non-existent harm” and a “benign gas that is essential to all life.” The March 2015 submission from Peabody further claims that “while the benefits of carbon […]
A Bad Week For Coal Mining Industry, Even Worse for Peabody Energy
A Bad Week For Coal Mining Industry, Even Worse for Peabody Energy It’s been a really bad week for major U.S. coal companies as we head into the July 4th holiday weekend. St. Louis-based Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU) closed today at $1.87 a share, down from a high of $84 per share in mid-2008. The company’s chief financial officer Michael C. Crews […]
Peabody Energy’s Insincere ‘Energy Poverty’ Campaign Takes Major Hit
Peabody Energy’s Insincere ‘Energy Poverty’ Campaign Takes Major Hit Two stories out late last week in the Guardian will seriously test the resolve of Peabody Energy’s “Advanced Energy for Life” campaign. The first Guardian article’s title says it all: “Exclusive – Energy giant exploited Ebola crisis for corporate gain, say health experts.” Ouch. Journalist Suzanne Goldenberg reports that as part of a “PR offensive […]
Power for All Shows Peabody a Real Plan to End Energy Poverty
Power for All Shows Peabody a Real Plan to End Energy Poverty Peabody Energy would like you to believe that coal is the only way to light up the homes of the roughly 1.1 billion who still live in energy poverty. A new campaign launched Thursday at the United Nations’ Sustainable Energy For All Forum in New York City offers […]
Peabody Energy Goes On Offense With New PR Campaign Designed To Sell Same Old Dirty Coal | DeSmogBlog
Peabody Energy Goes On Offense With New PR Campaign Designed To Sell Same Old Dirty Coal | DeSmogBlog. Despite what you may have heard about the death of the coal industry, Peabody Energy is ramping up mining activities and going on the offensive, pushing “clean coal” on the world’s poor with a disingenuous but aggressive PR campaign. And […]
