Coal Lobby

Ordinary Citizens Fight Big Coal in The Last Mountain

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Maria Gunnoe, Particulates, Bo Webb. Mountain Justice Summer, Mountaintop Blasting, George W. Bush, Documentary Film, Penn Future, Obama, Coal River Mountain, Bruce Mansfield Power Plant, Coal, Ed Wiley, Electricity, Activism, Coal River Valley, John Kennedy, Susan Bird, Asthma, New Source Rule, Robert F. Kenedy Jr., The Last Mountain, Ovec, Massey Energy, Joe Manchin Greenhouse Gases, Silicosis, Alpha Natural Resources, Green, Uncommon Productions, EPA Fine, Bill Haney, Appalachian Mountains, Coal Lobby, Mine Disaster, Heavy Metals, Jennifer Hall-Massey, Green News, Toxic Fly Ash, Ozone, Video, Green News
Marcia G. Yerman

Featuring citizen activists fighting for clean air and water against entrenched interests and corporate dollars, the documentary combines backstory, statistics, and human interest to explain more fully the narrative of where our electricity comes from.

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Dave Jamieson

How One Miner Took On Big Coal

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Energy, Massey Energy, Miners, Big Coal, Regulation, Arch Coal, Sago Mine, Coal Lobby, Msha, Coal Miners, Appalachia, Video, Charles Scott Howard, Kentucky, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Mining-Safety, George Miller, Upper Big Branch Mine, Tony Oppegard, National Mining Association, Politics News

WHITESBURG, Ky. -- On a July morning four years ago, Charles Scott Howard left his home in the mountains of Southeastern Kentucky and drove his pickup...

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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
Michael Kieschnick

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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Coal Lobbyist Grinches Stole 2010, Obama Transparency Initiative Falters

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lisa Jackson, Office of Management and Budget, Epa, Coal Ash, Mercury Emissions, Pollution, TVA Disaster, K Street, Barack Obama, Cass Sunstein, Coal Lobby, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Green News
Brendan DeMelle

Climate and energy legislation is dead, coal ash regulations are delayed indefinitely, mountaintop removal mining continues, and the myth of "clean coal" is alive and well thanks to continuing praise by Obama and Biden.

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Exposed: The Worldwide Efforts Of The Global Energy Lobby To Kill Progress On Climate Change

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy Lobby, Copenhagen 2009, cop15, Greenhouse Gases, Brazil, Killing Climate Bill, Climate Change, Climate Legislation, Lobbyblog, Coal, Global Warming, Coal Lobby, Green News

The Center For Public Integrity just released a blockbuster investigative report that details the intense corporate pressure to block an effective glo...

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Stephen Colbert Takes On Coal Lobby And Bonner And Associates (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Climate Bill, Bonner and Associates, Coal, Climate Change, Colbert Report, Coal Lobby, Green News

Thursday night on the Colbert Report, Stephen weighed in on the allegations that Bonner and Associates, a lobby group for the coal industry had sent f...

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Bomb Appalachia (and Face the Music)

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clearcutting, Coal, Center for Public Integrity, West Virginia, Campaign, Coal Industry, Climate, Grassroots, Coal River Mountain, Climate Change, Virginia, Coal Lobby, Mountaintop Removal, Unions, Environmentalism, JP Morgan Chase, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Wto, Mother Jones, Labor, Clean Energy, Congress, Green, Global Warming, Government, Mountains, Epa, Harlan County, Mines, Bush Administration, Blair Mountain, Tennessee, Climate Action Partnership, President Obama, Washington, Obama, Coal Czar, Bush, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Naacp, Appalachia, Workers, Climate Justice, Office of Surface Mining, Civil Disobedience, Kentucky, Henry Waxman, Forests, Department of the Interior, Dirty Coal, Green Jobs, Wall Street, Astroturfing, Coal Mining, Duke Energy, Green News, Mining, Water, Clean Coal, Osr, Appalachian Mountains, Activism, Protest, Massey Energy, Green News
Michael Gould-Wartofsky

Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.

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Natural Gas Hits A Roadblock In Energy Bill: Coal Lobby

The New York Times | CLIFFORD KRAUSS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Climate Change Bill, Coal Lobby, Coal, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Politics, Natural Gas, Congress, Energy Bill, Energy, Clean Coal, Politics News

For all its pronouncements that gas could be used to replace aging, inefficient coal-fired power plants -- and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the ...

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Bonner & Associates Never Contacted Rep. Perriello and Several Charities Defrauded In Forged Letter Scandal

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: FACES of Coal, Adfero Group, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Astroturf, Bonner and Associates, Lobbying Disclosure Act, Coal Scandals, Big Coal, Coal Lobby, Green News
Brendan DeMelle

This latest evidence of insincerity and misinformation adds to a growing heap of scandals plaguing the coal industry's attempts to weaken action on climate and energy security.

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Maddow on Bonner and Adfero's Astroturfing for Coal

Kevin Grandia | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Faces, The Federation for American Coal, Adfero Group, Energy and Security, Clean Coal, Rahcel Maddow, Environment, Coal Astroturf, Global Warming, James Hoggan, Coal Lobby, Green News
Kevin Grandia

Maddow should be congratulated for keeping on the astroturf story while most of her peers at other major TV outlets have ignored it.

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New "Grassroots" Pro-Coal Group Backed by K-Street PR Firm

James Hoggan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Coal Astroturf, Faces, Clean Coal, Global Warming, Aces, Coal Lobby, Green News
James Hoggan

Once again, it's time Washington created a legal requirement for these groups to come clean on their funding.

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This Week In Green: Jon Stewart's Pie Face, Congressman Skydiving, Organic Food Rocking, And The Human-Powered Monorail (PHOTOS)

Katherine Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Organic Food, Jon Stewart, This Week in Green, Costa Rica, Slidepoll, Greenest Country on Earth, Global Warming, Coal Lobby, Jon Stewart Pie Face, Green News
Katherine Goldstein

Welcome to the inaugural edition of This Week In Green, which is a roundup of my favorite HuffPost Green Stories from this week. Check out the ones yo...

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Rep. Nick Rahall Jumps Out Of A Plane For The Coal Lobby

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nick Rahall, Coal, Lobbyists, Jumps Out of a Plane for the Coal Lobby, Coal Pays Off Congressman, Coal Lobby, Green News

In an eye-opening story on the influence of special interests on our elected officials, The Washington Independent has the dirt on West Virginia Congr...

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