BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany has abandoned plans for a levy on coal-fired power plants but will reduce brown-coal power generation to safeguard its 2020 carbon-reduction targets, coalition leaders ...

Germany is vowing to turn its back on coal power generation, announcing a plan to close all of its 38 coal-fired plants within 19 years. Stories in the Los Angeles Times and elsewhere reported that a ...

Berlin hopes the technology will provide abundant clean and reliable energy, but critics say it's a waste of money as the ...

In a statement released on Thursday by the coal importers' lobby VDKi, they said that Germany's hard coal-powered power plants remain an important backup to ensure supply in times of low wind and ...

BERLIN (AP) — Hundreds of climate activists called an end to their protest Sunday inside one of Germany’s biggest open-pit mines after police repeatedly ordered them to leave, citing life-threatening ...

SPREMBERG, Germany (Reuters) - A German far-right party is using a simple message to attract voters in a mining region threatened by government plans to phase out coal: jobs are more important than ...

German ministers on Wednesday signed off a law to end coal electricity generation that demonstratorsand environmentalists say does too little, too late. Activists and campaign groups such as ...

BERLIN (AP) — The German government said Monday that it remains committed to its goal of phasing out coal as a power source by 2030, despite deepening worries about a cut in Russia’s gas supplies.

In the drab coal-mining towns of the Ruhr and the Saar, the mood was as grey as the fall weather that lay over the countryside in a chill and foggy blanket. The roll of muffled drums echoed through ...

US President Donald Trump has launched a push to revive coal energy in the United States, wrongly citing Germany as a model for returning to the fossil fuel. Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order ...

This 2014 photo provided by researchers shows a set of wooden hunting spears estimated to be about 200,000 years old discovered in a coal mine in the German town of Schöningen (Volker ...