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The Tiny Insurance Company Standing Between Taxpayers and a Costly Coal Industry Bailout

In a quiet commercial strip in an upscale suburb of Nashville, there’s a single-story brick building housing a company that may determine whether another billion-dollar taxpayer bailout of the coal industry is needed. It is the main office of Indemnity …

Lloyd’s Insurer Brit to Stop Insuring Australia’s Adani Coal Mine

Major Lloyd’s of London insurer Brit will not insure Adani Enterprises’ Carmichael thermal coal mine, it said on Tuesday, adding to a growing list of Lloyd’s insurers who have made similar pledges. Carmichael has provoked controversy in Australia with its …

U.S. Regulators Scrutinizing Coal Mines’ Clean-Up Insurance Program

Coal giant Peabody Energy has been among the harshest critics of federal energy policies, joining a court challenge to the Obama administration’s new clean air regulations and denouncing its promotion of renewable fuels. But there is one government program that …