Reuters: Australia’s government shook off on Friday coal industry warnings that 10,000 jobs would be lost and 16 coal mines forced to close unless a planned national carbon emissions trading scheme was dramatically overhauled. The centre-left government’s exclusion of coal mining from compensation measures promised to the biggest polluting firms exposed to overseas competition was “seriously flawed”, new research for the Australian Coal Association (ACA) said. “It is effectively a A$10 …