New Europe: The state of Hamburg granted regulatory approval on September 30 for one of Europe’s biggest coal-fired power stations, angering the environmentalist Greens Party which had campaigned for a gas plant instead. Swedish-based utility Vattenfall has already begun construction of the 1,654- megawatt plant, which will burn imported hard coal and use river water for cooling. The site at Moorburg in Hamburg’s port has become a bugbear to European ecologists, who charge that coal is the culprit in …