Tag: Coal - Page 10
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Ignorance Of (Environmental) Regulations Is No Excuse, Especially For Elected Officials
The Charleston Daily Mail reports that "U.S. Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va.,
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Colbert Report: Big Coal Destroyed Area the Size of Delaware in 10 Years (Video)
Ah, mountaintop removal mining. It's perhaps the most needlessly destructive practice we've currently got going -- there's nothing quite like blowing entire mountains to bits to make getting at coal seams a little cheaper.
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Mongolian Mining Battle Heats Up With Herder's Death
The already tense battle over mining in Inner Mongolia has erupted further after a Mongolian herder was run over by a coal truck and killed while trying to block the
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Cancer Now #1 Cause of Death in China, Coal Largely to Blame
China is beginning to see the costs of its rapid march towards industrialization -- the heavy industry, coal-fired power plants, and numerous factories have so saturated the air with pollution that cancer is
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'Quit Coal' Message Now Adorns 450 ft Smokestack at Chicago Coal Plant (Photos)
If you've been following my reporting the last couple days, you already know all about Greenpeace's ambitious anti-coal protests in Chicago -- two separate teams of activists scaled a 450 foot coal plant, and then dropped
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Chicago Residents: Coal Makes Us Sick (Video)
Yesterday, I spent the day covering Greenpeace's anti-coal efforts in Chicago, where two of the nation's oldest coal plants still operate within city limits. Combined, those plants kill over 40 people a year and have given hundreds of thousands of
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Greenpeace Activists Scale 450-ft Smokestack on 100 Year-Old Chicago Coal Plant [UPDATES]
Greenpeace activists climbed one of the nation's oldest and dirtiest coal-fired power plants, the Fisk Generating Station, in the heart of Chicago, IL. As a part of the renowned green group's Quit Coal campaign, the action
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Greenpeace Activists Halt Coal Barge with 2nd Demonstration in Chicago
Greenpeace's attack on coal pollution in Chicago turned out to be two-pronged. Hours after eight activists scaled the 450-foot smokestacks of the Fisk coal-fired power plant -- and not long after we spoke with climber Kelly Mitchell in an illuminating
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John Huntsman: Climate Change Believer and Possible Clairvoyant?
As top Republican presidential aspirants either flame out, contract foot-in-mouth disease, or stay home to play on Twitter, the field looks wide open to earn the GOP nomination. Enter former Utah Governor and our most recent
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Coal Ship Runs Aground, Destroys Coral Reef in Philippine Marine Sanctuary
A ship carrying coal has run aground in a marine sanctuary in the southern Philippines, destroying a large section of the protected reef in the process. The ship is still stranded on damaged reefs in Sarangani Bay.
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Pushing Coal in Schools? Scholastic & American Coal Foundation Tag-Team to Teach Kids About Energy
The United States of Energy is an educational curriculum that the American Coal Foundation hired Scholastic to put together and distribute to its well-established, trusting network of teachers. It looks great: it's
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Doctors Rebuke Rep. Barton Over His Claim That Coal Isn't That Bad For Your Health (Video)
In March, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed the first national standard for emissions of mercury, sulfur dioxide and other pollutants from coal-fired power plants, the country's Number 1 contributor to climate change. But Rep. Joe Barton
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World's Largest Coal Company Gives Out Free Asthma Inhalers to Kids (Not.)
Peabody Energy is the largest private sector coal company in the world. As such, it's partly responsible for the hundreds of thousands of cases of respiratory illness caused by pollutants emitted from coal-fired power
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State Line Power Station, A Dirty and Dangerous Relic, Will Soon Shut Down
The US may lack a comprehensive climate and energy strategy to mitigate coal use and ramp up the use of renewable energy, but it does have the EPA and father time combining to put pressure on utilities to close down aging coal fired
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Air Pollution Hurts Worker Productivity as Well as Lungs
Whenever new and better pollution controls are proposed, defenders of the status quo are quick to argue that we can't afford them. Well, sure, they say -- we could make polluting industries clean up their
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See 25 Years of Mountaintop Removal Mining Destruction in 10 Seconds
A couple weeks ago, I shared some NASA satellite photos that captured the destruction wrought by a West Virginia mountaintop removal mining operation over the course of 25 years.
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How Top Websites & Data Centers Suck Down Energy (Infographic)
By now, you've surely gotten wind of Greenpeace's campaign to get Facebook to 'unfriend' coal -- Jaymi's been doing some great coverage of the attempts made to get the social media giant to power its giant,
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Tim DeChristopher Calls for More Civil Disobedience in Climate Fight (Video)
Tim DeChristopher committed one of the most famous acts of climate activism in the nation: by bidding on a parcel of land that oil and gas companies were keen to snap up during a midnight hour auction put on by the Bush administration (and of course,
