The industry ministry is considering limiting each utility's coal-fired power output to around 50 percent of all fossil-fuel energy it generates, sources said Monday. The rule, designed to curb carbon emissions, would take effect in April as part of the government's efforts to achieve a ...
Japan's reliance on coal, especially clean tech, poses costly challenge to cut emissions
Japan will depend on new coal technology that's more than twice the cost of traditional plants to meet its targets on reducing global warming pollution. In a plan formally adopted earlier in July, Japan said it expects coal to generate about a quarter of the ...
Environment minister says coal plant approval is problematic
The need to cut greenhouse gas emissions and the lack of a strategy for this makes it hard to approve a new coal-fired power plant planned by a venture between Osaka Gas Co. and Electric Power Development Co., Environment Minister Yoshio Mochizuki said Friday. The ...
The United States' proposed cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions from its power plants is a bold step to tackle climate change, Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara says. "There are many states that are dependent on coal power," Ishihara said at a news conference in Tokyo. "We hope ...
Renewables get raked over coals under Abe
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is pushing the coal industry to expand sales at home and abroad, undermining hopes among environmentalists that he'd use the Fukushima nuclear disaster to switch the nation to renewables. A new energy plan approved by the Cabinet on Friday designates coal ...
A $4 billion Japanese project to build a large coal-fired power station in Indonesia has hit a major snag due to opposition from local residents, sources revealed. Around 50 landowners are refusing to sell 40 hectares in total that would account for 20 percent of ...
