Tag: Coal - Page 9
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Business Lobbies Unite to Fight for More Smog
Interest groups, the Business Roundtable chief among them, are attempting to capitalize on an anti-regulatory sentiment popular amongst American conservatives by lobbying hard against incoming Clean Air rules that would limit smog output from industry.
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Mitt Romney: Clean Air Act Not Meant For Regulating Carbon Pollution
Another day, another news story from the campaign trail as Republican candidates continue to run away from taking responsibility for the US's carbon problem. The latest to do so is Mitt Romney, who made news earlier this
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Nation's Top 'Clean Coal' Project Abandoned
American Electric Power, one of the largest utility companies in the U.S., has announced that it's abandoning plans to build a carbon sequestration plant that would capture the emissions of a nearby 30
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Big Coal Claims Inbreeding is Behind W. Virginia Birth Defects, Not Mining
You may recall seeing the report a few months back in which scientists linked a spate of birth defects in West Virginia to the toxins released from nearby mountaintop removal mining operations. It may have seemed
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House Energy and Commerce Committee Gets Paid, Big Coal Gets to Pollute
The House Energy and Commerce Committee will hear two bills this week, the TRAIN Act, which just promotes the false notion that environmental regulation is costly and bad for jobs, and a second bill that would limit federal
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Dept of Interior Appropriations Bill Is 'Declaration of War' On America's Basic Environmental Protections
The new appropriations bill for funding the Department of Interior from the House of Representatives is out in draft form. Among the more egregious parts of it include: Prohibiting any new plants or animals being
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China's Coal Production Will Peak In 2027
We've covered the topic of peak coal a couple of times, so apropos of China's prodigious coal use actually masking global warming a bit over the past decade is some interesting analysis from The Oil Drum. Dr Minqi Li takes a look at peak coal in China
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Without China's Coal Burning The Hottest Decade On Record Would've Been Even Hotter
According to NASA data, the past decade was the hottest ten years on record, but it would have likely been even hotter if it weren't for air pollution from China's rapid
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The Good News About Coal is That it's Fading
During the years when governments and the media were focused on preparations for the 2009 Copenhagen climate negotiations, a powerful climate movement was emerging in the United States: The movement opposing the
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NASA's James Hansen on Climate Change and Intergenerational Justice (Podcast)
One of the most venerated scientists of our time, James Hansen is the head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, a position he's held for three decades. Long before climate change was a household term, Hansen was one of the first to talk about
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Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Significantly Increases Birth Defects
In case you needed another reason to oppose mountaintop removal coal mining (in addition to utter ruination of ecosystems, pollution of streams for a millennia): New research in Environmental Research shows the MTR "significantly" increases birth
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Super-Polluting Liquid Coal May Be Cost-Effective by 2015
... And if that happens, we're in big, big trouble. The U.S. military just turned down a pitch to run more of its fleet on the stuff, and thankfully so -- liquefied coal generates way more greenhouse
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Utility Company's Coal-fired Lies Laid Bare
American Electric Power is one of the largest utilities in the U.S. Last week, it made some waves when it announced that due to impending E.P.A. clean air rules, it would have to prematurely shut down some
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Musician Ben Sollee on the Ravages of Coal and the Wonders of the Bicycle (Podcast)
Among music festivals, Bonnaroo is the juggernaut, and this year is was bigger than ever with 80,000 people descending on Manchester, Tennessee. One of the innumerable artists to preside over the festival's many stages (which included sitting in with My
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Week-Long Protest Keeps Legacy of the Battle of Blair Mountain Alive (Video)
Last week, protesters mounted a week-long march on one of the nation's most important (and least known) historical sites: Blair Mountain. Since we're taught to loathe labor unions these days, relatively
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Do You Live Near a Dirty, Dirty Coal Plant? Probably.
The Environmental Defense Fund says that 20 of the nation's 25 dirties coal plants are located between 50-100 miles of some of the nation's largest cities. Head over to Climate Progress to find out if you live close enough to one to be breathing in its
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"Rednecks" March Against Mountaintop Removal (Video)
Coal mining communities and TreeHuggers don't always see eye-to-eye. But as Sarah posted last week, there is a long history of protest and progressive thought among coal mining communities, with much of that tradition
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Will You Join the March on Blair Mountain?
Here's a great way to spend a week in June: Marching to save West Virginia's historic Blair Mountain from coal mining.
