American Electric Power, for instance, focuses more on coal, while Exelon plans on closing two of its small coal plants, Rowe notes.
He wants a windfall profits tax on oil, to go along with the new taxes he also plans for coal and natural gas.
Among them: an agreement for the United States to assist China in improving its "clean coal technology" at its growing number of coal-fired power plans, a major source of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Original plans allowed UK Coal to mine the site at Huntingdon Lane until June 2014, the company said.
Interest costs a canary in the coal mine, for both plans?
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Miller is perhaps better known for journeying across small-town Texas to rally ranchers in opposition to TXU's plans for more coal-fired plants, an effort that catapulted her to the central role in a recent Robert Redford-narrated documentary, Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars.
We have plans for new clean coal generation in front of regulators today.
's PNM Resources are moving forward with their own plans to expand existing coal plants in Texas in an effort to meet the state's immediate power needs.
Tory folklore recalls that one reason Mrs Thatcher defeated the miners' strikes of 1984 was because she had made contingency plans and built up coal stocks outside the mines.
But he said for it to be "fully convincing", Mr Cameron should be clear he would rule out all "dirty" coal fired power stations - including plans for a new plant at Kingsnorth, Kent.
At the same time East Kalimantan, where Bayan operates, is considering plans to cap annual coal output in an effort to promote alternative energy and cut back on the damage coal mining has done to the environment.
's PNM Resources (nyse: PNM - news - people ) are moving forward with their own plans to expand existing coal plants in Texas in an effort to meet the state's immediate power needs.
As part of leveraged buyout by private equity groups, Dallas-based TXU (nyse: TXU - news - people ) recently scrapped its plans to build 11 coal-fired plants, opting instead for three coal plants that include emissions-reducing technologies.
The trade unionists are restive about plans for chopping jobs in coal mining and steel.
Utilities drew up plans to build dozens of coal-fired plants.
At the same time, the EPA now plans to regulate mercury emissions from coal plants that provide the electricity to power half of those lights.
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The company has also announced plans to build two "clean coal" power plants last week just as it announced the completion of a wind farm that will provide power to 24, 000 homes.
As it stands now, TXU plans to place emission controls on the three remaining coal plants it intends to build.
Power giant Drax plans to burn huge amounts of wood instead of coal at its North Yorkshire plant over the next few years.
Dave Bolton, national operations manager at UK Coal said the firm was aware of the disaster and its plans meant it would "not be mining anywhere near" the bodies.
Similarly, Ohio-based American Electric Power (nyse: AEP - news - people ) last month announced plans to place carbon capturing technologies on two existing coal plants by 2011.
There were no plans, he said, to extend the life of old coal power stations.
Peabody says the effect is especially prevalent in Europe (where Germany says it plans to mothball all its nukes), which demanded 13% more coal in June versus a year ago.
Truman pressured mine owners into signing a contract in which they would pay for a union Welfare and Retirement Fund -- hospital, medical, and retirement plans -- all financed by a royalty assessed on the amount of coal extracted by union workers.
Plans by a UK energy company to test whether gas can be extracted from coal beds near Keynsham has prompted residents to hold a public meeting.
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The development is part of ambitious plans to further cement Australia's position as the world's largest coal exporter against a backdrop of booming global demand, by opening up deposits in the Galilee Basin in Queensland state.
It says it plans to expand across the country and is already recruiting in iron-ore and coal-producing areas.
Of immediate concern are plans to raise billions of dollars through a multinational offering of shares in a huge coal project, Tavan Tolgoi, also in South Gobi province.
Ms Gillard plans a broadband network for rural areas, a 30% tax on iron ore and coal mining companies' profits, and a tax on major polluters to help cut carbon emissions by 5% by 2020.
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