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Wake Up, Democrats: Send Dirty Coal Packing
"When party activists gathered in Chicago to nominate Bill Clinton to a second term in 1996, Mr. Obama was making his first run for political office, but he did not have enough clout to get full access...
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New York Times on the 'Allure of Clean Coal'
On his NY Time's DotEarth blog, journalist Andy Revkin writes:"This enduring notion — that the world can have its coal and climate, too, by pumping the carbon dioxide from combustion into the earth —...
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Blowing Mountains instead of Wind Mills in Coal River, West Virginia
There's a showdown in West Virginia today pitting old dirty energy against renewables - and one side is armed with explosives. Coal giant Massey Energy is planning as early as today to begin blowing...
View ArticleJury Says: Direct Action Justified to Stop Coal!
Today is a historic day for the climate change movement. A UK Crown Court jury effectively ruled that taking direct action, breaking the law, and even property damage are all justified in the course of...
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Coal-fired power will not build a cleaner future in Michigan or anywhere else
If you owned a wind or solar power production plant and were looking to expand would you be okay if it that expansion was fueled by coal? There's outrageous headlines everyday, but as a news junkie...
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Mike Brune on the Clean Coal Contradiction
Rainforest Action Network's executive director Mike Brune has a great op-ed out on the idiocy of the idea that coal is somehow clean:"During their recent debates, neither the presidential nor the vice...
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New report outlines major risks of "clean coal"
The Union of Concerned Scientists has released a report today outlining the considerable risks associated with so-called "clean coal" and carbon capture and storage technology (pdf.) Clean coal has...
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New poll finds 2 in 3 voters opposed to mountaintop removal
A new national poll released today (pdf) finds that 85% of voters in the US are concerned about the destructive practice of mountaintop removal minging for coal.“Throughout the entire term of the Bush...
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Top coal CEO pessimistic about carbon capture and storage
One of the most compelling chapters in the PBS Frontline 2-hour special on global warming that aired earlier this week was the segment on America's Addiction to Coal. PBS dives headfirst into the myth...
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If coal is clean, why's it still causing black lung?
Three more retired coal miners died of black lung today. Over 105,000 Americans have suffered and died from black lung related diseases; 10,000 miners, according to the National Institute for...
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