ArcelorMittal hit by Olympic flame greenwashing accusations
A new report by advocacy group SteelWatch found ArcelorMittal has spent just one third of the $1.5 billion it had promised to invest in decarbonisation in the past three years.
A new report by advocacy group SteelWatch found ArcelorMittal has spent just one third of the $1.5 billion it had promised to invest in decarbonisation in the past three years.
The Southeast Asian country, a regional manufacturing hub heavily reliant on coal for power generation, has over the recent years faced pressure to maintain sufficient power supplies during heatwaves.
This surge aligns with the country's robust plans to expand steel production capacity to meet escalating infrastructure demands.
The workshop aims to deliberate on the draft framework of the State Mining Index, designed to assess the performance of the mining sector across Indian states.
Poland's new government has shelved the plan to spin-off state-owned utilities' coal-fired power plants and bundle them into a new state-owned company but hasn't announced an alternative yet.
The case was taken up by the ED in 2013 on the basis of an FIR registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) the previous year.
Total levies paid to the government in March 2024 also went up by 14.8 per cent to Rs 6,069.18 crore from Rs 5,282.59 crore paid in the corresponding month of FY23.
The Green Deal, unpopular in coal-dependent Bulgaria, is a major issue ahead of the European parliamentary elections on June 9 and the country's own national election the same day.
The Centre has had some success in nudging states to bring down indebtedness of their distribution monopolies, but not on a scale to inspire investing confidence by private capital. The new generating capacity coming up is, thus, skewed in favour of public-funded coal-fired plants.
The import of metallurgical coal, which includes coking coal and pulverised coal injection (PCI), from Russia, stood at 5.1 MT, accounting for 8 per cent of India's total imports of 65.6 MT of the commodity in 2021-22.
According to the Central Electricity Authority's (CEA) May 3 daily report, 184 plants, that are monitored by the CEA, have 47.78 million tonnes of coal stocks against the normative level of 70.55 million tonnes.