Tag: Clean Coal
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Coal Rules, Occupy Wall Street Sucks: Coal Industry (Video)
The coal industry launches its election season ad campaign by making fun of Occupy Wall Street.
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Americans Getting Tired of Clean Coal, Biofuels, Carbon Offsets & Cap-and-Trade
Though feelings about solar power, wind power, and hybrid cars remain high, a new survey shows some definite declines in how Americans feel about other cleantech concepts.
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A Quick Take On What Obama's Budget Means For Clean Energy
US Energy Secretary Steven Chu has outlined what the fiscal year 2013 proposed budget has in store for his department. Here are the clean energy higlights.
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Minnesota Utility Customers May Get a 'Clean Coal' Electricity Bill Increase For Christmas
An efficient, low polluting coal-fired electricity plant was mothballed because it is not cost competitive.
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Fighting Coal Exports in Washington
What would it be like if an endless train carrying countless tons of coal destined for foreign power plants barreled its way through your
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Barcelona Design Week 2010: D-Lab's 4 Designs Against Poverty (Photos + Videos)
At today's lecture "Facing New Challenges Through Design" as part of Barcelona Design Week, I had the pleasure to come across some more projects by D-Lab, presented by Victor Grau Serrat from
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Eerie Photos of Power Plants Show Dark, Coal-Dependent Future
"A good photograph," Ansel Adams said, "is knowing where to stand." For photographer Michael Kenna, that has meant standing in front of icons of industrial society: The power stations that supply electricity to factories and
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Eerie Photos of Power Plants Show Dark, Coal-Dependent Future
"A good photograph," Ansel Adams said, "is knowing where to stand." For photographer Michael Kenna, that has meant standing in front of icons of industrial society: The power stations that supply electricity to factories and homes, offices and shopping ce
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Coal Costs More Money Than It Creates in W. Virginia
Things that make you go "duh," right? A study in West Virginia, the nation's second-largest coal-producing state, says that the coal industry is a loser when it comes to providing money for the state budget. The industry brings in
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The Many Faces of American Power (Slideshow)
Across the country, billboards are springing up. They feature an image that is arresting—smoke spewing from a coal plant, a massive power plant behind a school, or the hulking industrial frame of an oil
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The Many Faces of American Power
Across the country, billboards are springing up. They feature an image that is arresting—smoke spewing from a coal plant, a massive power plant behind a school, or the hulking industrial frame of an oil refinery—and a simple question written i
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Elementary School Escapes Toxic Coal Sludge Threat
For years, the Marsh Fork Elementary School in Sundial, West Virginia, sat in a precarious position directly below the damn of a massive coal sludge pond. In theory, the massive concrete barrier holding back the toxic sludge would be
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Obama Defends Clean Coal, Tells Renewables Activist "Don't Be Stubborn"
In early February to little fanfare, President Obama created a task force on Carbon Capture and Storage. The purpose? A strategy to speed up clean coal development. The President hopes to have five to 10 commercial clean coal demonstration projects up
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Jason Aramburu on the Promise of Biochar
Gather up agricultural leftovers, blast them with pyrolysis (high heat, low oxygen), and what you get is a crumbly, black matter that could save the world. Making biochar generates clean energy, and at the same time sequesters carbon dioxide in a
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Gloria Reuben on the Dirty Lie of Clean Coal
When people describe their first time seeing mountaintop removal coal mining, the response is invariably the same: dropped jaws and sunken hearts. Along with her prolific work in film and television (ER, Raising the Bar), Gloria Reuben is a tireless
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US and China: Goodbye Clean Coal, Ni Hao, "21st Century Coal"
The US-China duck pancake of climate cooperation, made this week by Presidents Obama and Hu, has left us with much to chew over. But the component that everyone was waiting for -- and that few could
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The Climate Battle Is Ours To Lose, As Corporate Execs Fragment Over Cap & Trade Legislation
Coal industry figure head, and Massey Energy CEO, Don Blankenship
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Ask Pablo: Is Nuclear Power Really "Carbon Neutral?"
The short answer
