Coal Industry

Coal Use Drops to Record Lows While Clean Energy Soars

Mary Anne Hitt | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Wind Energy, Clean Energy, American Wind Energy Association, Sierra Club, Coal, Coal Energy, Dirty Coal, Clean Coal, Coal Industry, Green News

What energy companies should be doing is focusing on how to transition away from dangerous fossil fuels and invest in clean energy and a just transition for workers. One key measure that will help that transition is, unfortunately, in jeopardy.

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Coal Ash Amendment To House Transportation Bill Would 'Line Industry's Pocketbooks,' Critics Say

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: House Transportation Bill, Coal Ash Disposal, Video, Coal Ash Waste, David Mckinley Coal Ash, Tennessee Coal Ash, Coal Industry, Keystone XL Pipeline, Coal Ash Amendment, West Virginia, Coal Ash, Little Blue Run Coal Ash, David-Mckinley, Politics News

As the House of Representatives votes on an extension to its transportation bill Wednesday, environmental advocates are crying foul on an amendment th...

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VIDEO: Coal Will Say Anything

Mary Anne Hitt | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Sierra Club, Coal, Coal Pollution, Coal Industry, Mr. Coal, Sierra Club Coal Videos, Renewable Energy, Environmentalism, Clean Energy, Coal Mining, Sierra Club Mr. Coal, Video, Green News

The Sierra Club has just launched a new series of videos underscoring how truly ridiculous it is for the coal industry to claim coal is safe and harmless.

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New Limit on Carbon Pollution Will Help Protect the Health of Our Families

Frances Beinecke | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: American Lung Association, Carbon Emissions, Coal Industry, Epa, Carbon Pollution, Coal, Clean Air Act, Dirty Coal, Asthma, Detroit, Climate Change, Air Pollution, Children's Health, Limit Carbon Pollution, Video, Green News

Americans are already paying the price for record heat waves, dirty air, and an unstable climate. We need to fight these threats with every weapon we have, and the electricity industry has to do its fair share. The new carbon standard will help make that happen.

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New Limits on Carbon Pollution Will Help Usher in a Clean, Healthier Future

Frances Beinecke | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Smog, Coal Industry, Epa, Carbon Pollution, Asthma, Power Plants, Climate Change, Extreme Weather, Global Warming, Clean Air Act, Coal-Fired Plants, Green News

Americans know government safeguards drive dirty polluters to clean up their act. With these new carbon limits in place, we can count on a new generation of power plants that will create jobs, help stabilize the climate, and allow us all to breathe a little easier.

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800 Turn Up For Meeting On Washington Coal Terminal

AP | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Bellingham Wa Coal, Video, Cherry Point Aquatic Reserve, Asia Coal, Washington Coal Terminal, Coal Industry, Bellingham Wa Coal Terminal, Bellingham WA, Coal Mining, Coal, Washington Coal, Green News

BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — About 800 people showed up Tuesday night in Bellingham, Wash., to learn how they can make their voices heard during an envi...

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Environmental Groups Plan To Sue Pennsylvania Coal Plant Again

AP | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Sierraclub, Homer City Generating Station Lawsuit, Video, Earthjustice, Epa Coal, Coal Industry, Coal-Fired Power Plants, Coal Power Plant Rules, Environment, Coal Power Plants, Coal, Green News

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A coalition of environmental and community groups say they plan to file a new lawsuit against an Edison Mission Energy power plant...

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Judge Removes Hurdle To 'Drastically Expand' Montana Coal Production

AP | MATTHEW BROWN | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Montana, Energy, Video, Montana Coal Mining, Coal Industry, Montana Coal Lease, Otter Creek Montana, Otter Creek Coal, Coal, Coal Mining, Green News

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A judge has rejected a lawsuit challenging the state Land Board's lease of 587 million tons of publicly owned coal in southea...

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Mercury Ruling: Waiting For the EPA

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 02.19.2012

As a writer for Moms Clean Air Force, I was eagerly waiting to hear the December 16 announcement from the Environmental Protection Agency on their new...

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Why the EPA's Forthcoming Power Plant Rule Is a Big Deal

Corbin Hiar | Posted 02.15.2012

It's an important moment for Americans who eat fish or use electricity. After more than two decades of delays, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is poised to issue a new regulation restricting some power plant emissions that have polluted the nation's air and water.

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Finding Coal's Future Might Require A Look Back At The Past

Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Energy, Video, Carbon Emissions, World Resources Institute, Coal Industry, Climate Change, International Energy Agency, Clean Energy, Coal, Global Warming, Green News

WASHINGTON (Reuters / December 11) - As futuristic projects designed to capture carbon from coal-burning industries and store it underground have ...

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Is Your Bank One Of The Biggest 'Climate Killers'?

Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: Video, Coal Industry Investment, Coal Industry, Banks, Banking Industry Coal Investment, Banks Coal Industry Investment, Banking Industry, Big Banks, Big Banks Coal Industry, Green News

Are big banks financing climate change? A new study detailing big banks' lending to the coal industry over the past six years says yes. "Bankrollin...

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WATCH: College Students Nationwide Speak Out Against Coal

Posted 11.18.2011

Read More: Video, Student Activism, Power Shift, Coal-Fired Power Plants, Coal Industry, Beyond Coal Campaign, Student Protests Coal, Beyond Coal Protests, Coal, Coal Mining, Green News

Last month, students from colleges and universities across the country became a part of the Sierra Club's ongoing Beyond Coal campaign. Student act...

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Can We Avoid Locking Ourselves Into Runaway Climate Change?

Kelly Rigg | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Dirty Coal, Energy Information Administration, Oil Industry, Oil Drilling, Coal Industry, Climate Change, Clean Energy, Global Warming, Green News

It's as if this year the International Energy Agency wanted to grab us by the shoulders and give us a good shake. And coming from an institution that was long considered a cheerleader for the fossil and nuclear industries, we would do well to pay attention.

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Rev Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir at Occupy Wall Street

Reverend Billy | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Bank of America, Rainforest Action Network, Al Jazeera, Coal Industry, Occupy Wall Street, New York News

Al Jazeera came along for our "Exorcism of the Bank of America" last week. We wanted to preach some big bank specifics.

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Will Boehner's Pork Project Be the Next Solyndra?

Elliott Negin | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Wind Power, John Boehner, Coal Industry, Oil Subsidies, Nuclear Power, Renewable Energy, Pork Barrel Spending, Clean Energy, Green Energy, Energy Policy, Solar Power, Politics News

John Boehner thinks new energy sources should "stand on their own" But he apparently doesn't feel the same way about "old" energy sources -- namely oil and gas, coal, and nuclear -- which have been sucking on the federal teat for more than 50 years.

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Appalachia Faces Steep Coal Decline

AP | By DYLAN LOVAN | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Energy, Virginia, Appalachia, Appalachia Coal Decline, Tennessee, Coal Industry, West Virginia, Coal Production, Appalachian Mountains, Obama Administration, Kentucky, Arch Coal, Department of Energy, Coal Mining, Coal, Green News

GARRETT, Ky. -- When business screeched to a halt at Jerry Howard's eastern Kentucky mine engineering company two years ago, he decided to call it qui...

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RFK, Jr. Says Massey Coal 'Offensive To The Public Interest'

The Huffington Post | James Gerken | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Energy, Massey Energy, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Massey, Coal Industry, West Virginia, Free Speech for People, Coal, Appalachia, Video, Mountaintop Removal, Appalachian Voices, Coal Mining, Coal Mines, Green News

Should a corporation with a track record of frequent legal violations be allowed to operate? Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Free Speech For People say no....

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The Coal Stops Here

Michael Brune | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Beyond Coal Campaign, Mountaintop Removal, Sierra Club, Coal, Michael Bloomberg, Coal Plants, Coal Industry, Sierra Student Coalition, Green News

I'm usually skeptical of absolutes. But not when it comes to coal.

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Australia Prime Minister: Carbon Tax Won't Kill Coal Industry

AP | By KRISTEN GELINEAU | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Australia Coal, Australia Greenhouse Gas, Australia Global Warming, Carbon Tax, Australia, Coal Industry, Australia Carbon Tax, Climate Change, Australia Climate Change, Australia Coal Industry, Green News

SYDNEY -- Australia's prime minister on Tuesday touted a $5 billion bid for one of the nation's coal miners as proof an unpopular new tax on the count...

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The Whole Coal Story

Carl Safina | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Renewable Energy, Mercury Pollution, Climate Change, Mercury Emissions, Mountaintop Removal, Coal Industry, Clean Coal, Scholastic, Green News

When you realize coal's effects on health and our environment, coal is exceptionally costly. If these costs were included in the price of coal, cleaner energy technologies would become very competitive.

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Three Strikes and You're Hot: Time for Obama to Say No to the Fossil Fuel Wish List

Bill McKibben | Posted 08.02.2011

Read More: Co2, Fossil Fuels, Coal Industry, Climate Change, Obama Energy Policy, Green Energy, Obama Climate Change, u.s. Energy Policy, Coal, Coal Mining, Powder River Coal, Keystone XL, Green News

The Obama administration is making its biggest decisions yet on our energy future, and those decisions are intimately tied to this continent's geography.

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Scholastic’s Big Coal Mistake

nytimes.com | Posted 07.13.2011

Read More: Scholastic Mistake, Scholastic, Children's Books, American Coal Foundation, Coal Industry, Greenhouse Gases, The United States of Energy, Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, Books News

Children’s books and other educational materials produced by the publisher Scholastic reach about 90 percent of the nation’s classrooms. With this...

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Yes Men Affiliates Prank Big Coal

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.10.2011

Read More: Eat the Press, Agitprop, Peabody Energy Prank, Coal Industry, Green News, Environmentalism, Yes Men, Peabody Energy, Coal, Pranks, The Yes Men, Video, Green News

It appears that a merry gang of agitprop pranksters associated with the Yes Men have pulled a fast one on Peabody Energy, the self-described "world's ...

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I Demand Cheaper Electricity

Michael Kieschnick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brain Damage, Mercury, Arsenic, Electricity, Republicans, Coal, Epa, Power Plants, Coal Industry, Clean Energy, Coal Lobby, Green News

Few would demand that mercury remain an essential ingredient of our electricity. Yet that is precisely what the powerful dirty coal industry would want you to believe.

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