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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,
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Powershift 2011 Kicks Off in Washington DC
Photo courtesy of Powershift.org Powershift 2011 begins this weekend in Washington DC. The biggest of its kind, the annual event will foster leadership amongst the next generation of clean energy activists -- along with keynote talks from the likes of
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How the West Was Sold for Coal
When you hear someone like Mike Scott talk about the beauty of the Powder River Basin, you want to join him there for a fishing or hunting trip right away.
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NASA Satellite Photos Show Coal Mining Destroy a Mountain Range Over 25 Years
Does anyone out there still need convincing that mountaintop removal mining is in the running for mankind's worst idea? The reckless, greed-driven hubris that allows us to justify blowing up age-old mountains to get
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Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Playing a Role in Government Shutdown?
Earlier today, I examined the fact that http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/04/clean-air-act-looming-government-shutdown.php was at the core of the looming shutdown of the federal government. But it even goes deeper than that -- TheGreenMile explains
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Susan Sarandon: "Mountaintop Removal Mining is an American Tragedy" (Video)
Susan Sarandon has lent her voice to environmental causes before -- this time, the actress narrates this brief video on the horrors of mountaintop removal coal mining. The video does a pretty good job of capturing how despicable the very notion of MTR
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Chart of US Energy Use Reveals Herculean Effort Needed to Ditch Oil, Coal
Many of you are roughly aware of what our nation's energy mix looks like, though different charts tell different tales. If you look at
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Scrap Subsidies For Fossil Fuels & Support Renewables, CCS to Cut Emissions: IEA
The latest report from the International Energy Agency on renewable energy is out and in many ways it's a hard splash of cold water across the face. Among many things, the Clean Energy
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Biggest Financers of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Exposed
PNC, Citi, and UBS are the top three financial enablers of mountaintop removal coal mining, according to a new report by Rainforest Action Network and the Sierra Club that ranks ten of the world's largest banks.These
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Newest Coal Plants Only Created Half as Many Jobs as Industry Promised
On top of being dirty, carbon-polluting, respiratory illness-inducing behemoths, it turns out that new coal plants don't create that many jobs, either. Or, at least, not nearly as many as the companies
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There's a Better Energy Assumption Than 'If Not Nuclear, Then Coal'
In case you missed it yesterday Democracy Now! aired a debate between now-pro-nuclear George Monbiot and the always-against-nuclear Dr Helen Caldicott. Debate is a bit of
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Feds Lease Lots of Wyoming Coal & Grossly Inflate Projected Revenue From It
Last week US Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar announced that a large swath of land in Wyoming's Powder River Basin was up for lease for coal production, enough in fact to expand the nation's greatest coal producing
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Moms Speak Out Against Toxic Mercury
Gretchen Dahlkemper-Alfonso is a mother of a toddler and is eight-months pregnant with her second child.
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EPA's New Pollution Rules Take Down Two Dirty Old Coal Plants
This should serve as an indication of how old and toxic some of our nation's coal-fired power plants are: Just a day after the EPA announced its new proposal for limiting the amount of toxic emissions power plants can spew
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Our Air Would Never be this Clean Without the Government
Imagine an alternate American history, one in which the Clean Air & Water Acts were never passed -- despite industry pumping such massive amounts of pollution into our skies, lakes, and rivers that one of
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A Dirty Power Transmission Line Comes to Its End
"I'm absolutely affected by the air quality. My house is downwind of this coal plant, as is the Shenandoah National Park. This should be a pristine area, but the air quality is so poor that there are often health alerts
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Wisconsin Governor Selling State Power Plants to the Kochs?
One overlooked aspect of the ruckus in Wisconsin is that Governor Scott Walker's budget proposal allows him to sell off the state's power plants with no bids. And right as the pro-worker protests picked up steam, reporters noticed Koch Industries
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The Nightmare of Coal-Powered Bureaucracy (Video)
Spending the week with Greenpeace on its Coal Free Future tour was illuminating for a number of reasons. Not only did I get a sneak peak at what I believe will be a crucial part of the next chapter of climate activism, but it was eye-opening to see all
