Tag: Coal
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Lobster Boat Successfully Blockades 40,000 Ton Coal Shipment
Yesterday, two activists moored their tiny lobster boat infront of a giant coal tanker, successfully halting the delivery of 40,000 tons of central Appalachian coal.
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Even Former Coal Miners Want to End Mountaintop Removal Mining
It's time to end this destructive practice, and Appalachian residents descended upon Washington, D.C., this week to demand action.
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Is Obama the "environmental President?" Yes or no, he can still win climate fight
Obama's climate record has been "a runaway success", writes Jonathan Chait. David Roberts doesn't disagree, but puts the claim in context.
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Jargon watch: "Unburnable carbon" is important buzz word in energy debate
Leaving some fossil fuels in the ground is the oft-overlooked option in debates over energy policy. "Unburned carbon" is new buzz word and important choice in energy debate.
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Coal or natural gas? It's a false choice, explains Gasland's Josh Fox
Josh Fox had a good answer to the question of whether natural gas is a necessary evil.
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Tribal Activist's Clean-Energy Quest
A mother's fight to protect her children and her tribe
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After 10 years of hard work, Ontario is getting ready to close its last coal power plants
It wasn't always easy and not everybody agreed with how it was done, but over the past 10 years, the Canadian province of Ontario has shown that it's possible to wean a large economy off coal.
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Coal company kicks 10,000 workers off health care
Missouri coal miners have a new ally in environmentalist and climate activist, Bill McKibben. Writing at Bloomberg, McKibben highlights an infuriating example of corporate socialism.
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Los Angeles to be coal-free by 2025
Los Angeles is going coal-free by 2025. Here's how Mayor Villaraigosa and others responded to the good news.
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Mississippi Utility Wants Public to Pay for Its Coal Boondoggle
MS Power wants the public to pay for massively over-budged Kemper coal plant...and it has national implications.
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Coal use declining in the U.S. (yay!) but going up everywhere else (boo!)
After all, all that matters for Earth's atmosphere is the absolute amount of greenhouse gas that we pump into it, not that the U.S.'s relative share of the total is going down.
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A TreeHugger Tradition: We'll Never Forget the Clean Coal Carolers
Join us in a rousing round of "Deck the Halls with Clean Coal" and other memorable odes to technology
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IEA: World to Burn 1.2 Billion More Tons of Coal Per Year by 2017 (If We Don't Wake Up)
Since 1 ton of coal produces 2.86 tons of CO2 when burned, this would mean an additional 3.4 billion tons of CO2 produced just from this extra coal.
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A Ship Full of Coal Just Crashed in Vancouver
If we ramp up coal exports, is this a harbinger of things to come?
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Calling for Clean Energy at Indiana University
Students organize a massive call-in to demand the school transition away from coal.
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Rich Nations Spend 5x More Money on Subsidizing Fossil Fuels Than Climate Change Assistance
The priorities here seem pretty obvious.
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100 More Colleges Join Fight to Divest From Fossil Fuel Companies
350.org's Fossil Free campaign is getting more backing, had a few early victories, and shows the maturation of the green movement.
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1.4 Million Megawatts of Coal Power Plants Currently Being Developed Globally
Three quarters of these are in India and China, though a surprising amount are still being proposed in the United States.
