All news on the topic: British Coal

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Investors urge Glencore to abandon spin-off plans for coal division due to pollution concerns
More than 95% of investors urged commodities firm to keep highly profitable fossil fuel arm to help maximise shareholder cash
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40 years after the pits closed, Britain's mining towns still suffer
Four decades after Britain's miners came above ground to fight plans to shut down their pits, a new survey found former pit towns are still falling far behind the rest of the UK because of lack of investment
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Water in disused coal mines could heat our homes cheaply and cleanly, say MPs
A cross-party group of MPs has issued a series of recommendations about how the Government could 'level-up' former coalfields communities
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Mum took on British Coal and won battle over choking fumes and poisonous puddles
Jennie Shearan, a housewife who moved to South Tyneside with her young family in 1953, devoted incalculable hours campaigning for her local British Coal plant to stop polluting the area with emissions such as sulphur dioxide