Tag: Clean Coal - Page 3
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Ground Zero For CO2's First "Big Sink" Located In Obama's Homeland
CO2 for the first "Big Sink" project in the USA apparently comes from one of ADM's grain-to-ethanol facilities, located on the
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Fly Ash Used To Build Virginia Golf Course Threatens Private Wells
With existing fly ash lagoons filling up, the electric power utility, Dominion Virginia Power, helped a golf course developer "build" a course by selling it fly ash to
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With or Without Carbon Capture, Coal-to-Liquids Are Climate Change Disaster
In addition to all of the oral presentations and the Copenhagen Climate Congress over the past couple of days, there were dozens of
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$500 Million Math Error Shut Down "Near Zero Emissions" Coal Plant
The high-profile FutureGen project in Illinois was pioneering carbon capture and sequestration--the controversial effort to curb greenhouse gas emissions in coal plants--when it was shut down last year after the
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The Top 5 Technologies That Will Save Us from Climate Change
Dear Pablo: What do you believe are the top technologies that will help us overcome climate change?First of all, the number one solution to climate change is not a technology at all; it is political will. As Thomas Friedman, the author of Hot, Flat, and
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Ashley Judd on Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
Mountaintop removal coal mining really strikes a nerve with celebrity Ashley Judd, who grew up in the middle of the Appalachian mountains in Kentucky. In response, Judd teams
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Clean Coal Spokesman 'Doesn't Know' if Coal Plant Emissions Cause Global Warming (Video)
In this short clip watch Joe Lucas, spokesperson for the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, either reveal his entire ignorance of even the most basic parts of how global warming is happening, or entirely dodge the question of whether the
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North Carolina Law Requires Electric Utility Plant Combustion Of Chicken Poop
The poo-burn requirement is according to a story from the The News & Observer, Activists fight small power plants.
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Where Do Mountains Go When Their Tops Are Removed to Get Coal? (Video)
TreeHugger has covered the issue of mountaintop removal coal mining number of times. We've also firmly been behind the idea that there really is no such thing as clean coal; that when its mined, when its burned and when the waste is disposed of, coal
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Clean Tech Forum 2009: Nuclear and Clean Coal Stick Up for Themselves (Video)
"There is no such thing as peak natural gas."
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Senate Passes Stimulus Bill: Here Are Some of the Clean Energy Provisions
Now that the Senate has passed its version of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (all 778 pages of it...) it's worthwhile to take a look at some of the green provisions in it. I've only had a
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"Clean Coal" Industry Needs More Financial Stimulus - The Battle Of Brown VS Green States Begins
According to the Charleston Gazette: "Lawmakers in the House set aside $2.4 billion in their current version of the legislation for research into capturing greenhouse gas emissions from
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Hot Climate Action By Calera: Utility Stack Gas + Sea Water = Calcium Carbonate \/+ Hydrogen Sulfide
Dynegy's Moss Landing Coal Fired Plant, at Moss Landing Harbor, California, Image credit:NOAA Calera has a chemical process in mind to sequester coal-plant C02 emissions in concrete. First, they would bubble hot, CO2-laden stack gas through sea water.
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EPA Gets Coal Ash Hazardous Waste Regulation Do Over in Obama Presidency (Video)
Unless you haven’t seen any coverage of the TVA coal ash spill in Tennessee, you can safely ignore the one minute background on this clip, but pay attention after that. The rest goes into how the US almost had coal ash regulation as a hazardous waste
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Tennessee Residents Demand Answers From Congress on TVA Coal Ash Spill Disaster
Understandably in the anticipation leading up to yesterday's inauguration, your political eye was probably not focused on what's going on in the aftermath of the TVA coal ash spill. But last week Sarah McCoin and Tom Gizzard, residents of Harriman,
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First 100-Days Climate Policy: Who Might Dispatch A Plane To The Coming Dogfight?
With US climate policy deliberations about to become serious, energy intensive businesses and their lobbyists seem to be
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What the Heck? Second Coal Ash Spill, this Time in Alabama
Image: Google Maps. We think this is the Widows Creek power plant where the spill happened, but if anyone from Alabama could confirm, please do so in the comments. Coal Waste Spill at At Alabama Coal Plant It wasn't so long ago that we were writing
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"Clean Coal" Has Prospered With Totalitarian Rule And Oil Shortage
Lincoln Memorial (1922) - Washington, DC; Henry Bacon, FAIA. Image credit:AIA Archiblog History indicates that two conditions are required for "clean coal" to prosper: oil shortages and a rigid form of government. China is now clearly in the lead. By
