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Energy ministers give Europeans coal for Christmas

Press release | December 19, 2017 at 7:06

Brussels – European energy ministers have backed coal and other fossil fuels over renewable energy, in the ongoing reform of the EU’s energy laws.

Subsidising the past

Publication | April 8, 2014 at 14:19

A new report prepared by the Warsaw Institute for Economic Studies for Greenpeace Poland reveals that cumulative public financial support for coal-based power in Poland amounted to PLN170 billion (€40.5 billion2) between 1990 and 2012. In...

Frau Merkel, M. Hollande: say no to coal and nuclear energy; yes to an energy...

Press release | February 19, 2014 at 10:58

Paris - This morning at 6.30am, a few hours before a Franco-German council of ministers in Paris, ten Greenpeace activists dumped five tonnes of coal from a lorry in front of the Elysée Palace, the residence of the French President. The lorry was...

Report: Silent Killers

Publication | June 11, 2013 at 20:24

A Greenpeace International report on the health effects of coal power

Commission hampers Polish coal expansion plans

Press release | July 13, 2012 at 16:00

Climate Action Network Europe, Greenpeace, Client Earth, WWF Brussels - Environmental groups gave a cautious welcome to a decision by the European Commission today to block some new high-emitting coal power plants in Poland from benefiting...

EU leaders wake up! Make coal history

Blog entry by Joris den Blanken | August 25, 2014

This weekend I joined a unique European protest, not the usual gathering in front of Commission buildings in Brussels. Almost 8,000 people from all over Europe gathered at the Polish-German border to form an eight-kilometre long human...

Should the European Commission wear green goggles more often?

Blog entry by Daniel Simons | October 6, 2014

That's the question lawyers were arguing about in Luxembourg last week. It is a case where Greenpeace is challenging the approval of up to €1.6 billion in aid to Spain's coal industry. Spain is a poster child for clean energy. It...

Action at E.ON Coal Power Plant

Image | October 19, 2008 at 23:30

Greenpeace activists block the coal supply to the Fiume Santo power plant of E.ON by locking on to the coal conveyors. They hold a sign reading 'Quit Coal'. The action is to protest against the Sardinian authorities and energy company E.ONs...

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