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"Our Land, Our Decision": Kosovo Protests World Bank and U.S. Plans for New Coal

Mary Anne Hitt | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Environment, Energy, Kosovo, Sierra Club, Coal, World Bank, Coal Plants, Kosovo Coal Plants, Green News
Mary Anne Hitt

While the U.S. has stopped building new coal plants and has rejected 166 proposed coal plants in the past decade, some of our government institutions are, inexplicably, trying to force new coal plants on other countries.

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Report: Midwest Generation To Close All Of Its Illinois Coal Plants

Posted 03.05.2012

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On the heels of news that its two Chicago coal-fired plants will close in the near future, Midwest Generation is reportedly considering closing each o...

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Coal Plants Shut Down: Hard Work Pays Off, but More Work Ahead

Philip Radford | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Fisk Coal Plant, Edison International, Greenpeace, Global Warming, Crawford Coal Plant, Chicago-Coal-Plants, Quitcoal, Coal Plants, Rahm Emanuel Chicago Mayor, Pollution, Coal, Video, Chicago Coal Plants, Rahm Emanuel, Air Pollution, Green News
Philip Radford

After ten years of gritty and determined grassroots work, communities in Chicago triumphed over the corporate polluter in their back yard.

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City's Coal Plants To Close After Mayor Presents Ultimatum

Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Coal Plants, Fisk Coal Plant, Coal Power, Crawford Generating Station, Video, Fisk Generating Station, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Coal Plants, Midwest Generation, Coal Power Plants, Clean Energy, Green Energy, Chicago Clean Power Ordinance, Crawford Coal Plant, Chicago News

Chicago environmentalists won a hard-fought victory late Tuesday as the city's two coal power plants announced that they will close -- one of them by ...

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Will U.S. Carbon Rules 'Send The Message That Coal Is Dead'?

Reuters | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Coal Plants, Co2 Emissions, Video, Coal Fired Power Plants, Carbon Emissions, US Carbon Emissions, Reuters, Carbon Emission Standards, Co2 Emission Standards, Coal Plant Rules, Green News

* Proposed rules on new plants expected this month * Could push carbon capture, other ways to cut emissions By Timothy Gardner and Valerie...

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Just A Short-Term Trend? Electric Plants Shift From Coal To Natural Gas

AP | By KEVIN BEGOS | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Electric Plants, Coal Plants, Natural Gas Plants Natural Gas Power, Coal Power Plants, Video, Electric Power Plants, Green News

PITTSBURGH -- The huge, belching smokestacks of electric power plants have long symbolized air pollution woes. But a shift is under way: More and more...

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EPA's New Air Pollution Rules Spark Debate Over The Value Of Life And Breath

Tom Zeller Jr. | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Coal Plants, Clean Air Act, Fossil Fuels, Epa, Air Pollution, Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, All-Terrain, Cross-State Air Pollution, Green News
Tom Zeller Jr.

It might surprise many Americans to learn that, until just a couple of weeks ago, there were no federal standards requiring operators of the nation's ...

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Coal Plant Closures To Cost Jobs, Clean Up Environment

AP | By VICKI SMITH and LARRY O'DELL | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Energy, Coal Plants, Video, Coal-Fired Power Plants, Coal Plant Closures, Glen Lyn Virginia, Coal Environment, Giles County, Coal Plants Epa, Coal Epa, Green News

-- For more than 90 years, the coal-fired power plant in Glen Lyn, Va., has been churning out electricity and contributing to local prosperity. Of la...

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EPA Rules To Force Some Of Oldest And Dirtiest Coal Plants To Shut Down, Study Finds

AP | By DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 02.18.2012

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WASHINGTON -- More than 32 mostly coal-fired power plants in a dozen states will be forced to shut down and an additional 36 might have to close becau...

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Matt Sledge

Coal-State Lawmakers Want To Ignore This Danger

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Coal Plants, Environmental Protection Agency, Ben Nelson, Rob Portman, Mike Enzi, Kent Conrad, Environmental Integrity Project, John Boozman, Coal Ash, Kingston Fossil Plant, Coal Ash Spill, Joe Manchin, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Coal Mining, Tennessee Valley Authority, Green News

Just days before the three-year anniversary of the devastating dike failure at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant, the Environment...

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House Republicans Push Through Looser Environmental Regulations In War On EPA

AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Environmental Regulations, Coal Plants, Energy, Epa, Power Plants, Power, Coal, Gop Environment, House Republicans, Epa Regulations, Environmental Protection Agency, Video, Republicans Epa, Regulations, Gop Epa, Epa Coal, Republicans Environmental Deregulation, Environment, Coal Ash, Politics News

WASHINGTON — House Republicans pushed through legislation Friday that gives the states the power to regulate coal ash from power plants as if it...

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No, It's Not All as Hard as It Looks

Carl Pope | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Energy Efficiency, Coal, Coal Plants, Thomas Friedman, Tea Party, Green News
Carl Pope

There's evidence all over the landscape that America's current problems for the most part have really easy solutions that have been blocked solely by the determination of one wing of our politics -- Tea Party Republicanism -- to hold solutions hostage.

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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
Michael Brune

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

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PHOTOS: Disturbing Anti-Coal Plant Ads Take Over D.C. Metro Station

Posted 09.13.2011

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Commuters probably weren't expecting this on their way to work in the morning. But beginning July 12th, the Sierra Club took over all of the ad space ...

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Governor Quinn OKs State's First Coal-To-Gas Plant

Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Coal Energy, Coal Plants, Leucadia, Alternative Energy, Chicago Clean Energy, Coal Gasification, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, Governor Quinn, Natural Gas, Clean Energy, Fisk Plant, Sierra Club, Leucadia National Corp, Chicago News

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn Wednesday signed legislation OKing a proposed plant that would convert coal to natural gas, the state's first of its kind,...

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Ordinance To Regulate Coal Plants Gets Long Hearing, No Vote

Posted 06.22.2011

Read More: Coal Plants, Clean Power, Fisk Generating Station, Chicago Coal Plants, Chicago Clean Power, Chicago, Clean Power Ordinance, Illinois, Crawford Power Plant, Chicago News

An ambitious ordinance that would regulate Chicago's two pollution-belching coal plants underwent six hours of City Council hearings Thursday, as poss...

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Big Coal Feeding Frenzy In Springfield

Jack Darin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Coal Plants, Illinois General Assembly, Illinois EPA, Tenaska, Leucadia, Chicago News
Jack Darin

As the clock winds down on the lame duck Illinois General Assembly, two out-of-state coal companies are asking to put ratepayers and businesses on the hook for a bailout of their risky projects.

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Chicago-Area Coal Plants Need To Cut Smog And Soot, Says New EPA Rule

Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011

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In a move that portends cleaner air in Chicago and other communities east of the Mississippi, the Obama administration cracked down today on smog- and...

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Carbon Capture & Sequestration 'Profoundly Non-Feasible,' New Report Finds

Treehugger | Brian Merchant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Coal Plants, Clean Coal, Coal Technology, Carbon Capture and Sequestration, Coal Industry, Carbon Capture, Green Energy, Coal Mining, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Green News

You all know how we feel about CCS, the technology that will somehow miraculously provide the world with so-called "clean coal." Well, along with the ...

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World Bank Awards $3.75 Billion to Coal Company in South Africa

Erich Pica | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Friends of the Earth, Eskom, Coal, World Bank, Protest, Coal Plants, South Africa, Coal Power, World News
Erich Pica

What would you do with $3.75 billion -- that is, if you had to use it to fund a project that alleviates poverty and mitigates climate change, and not to, say, purchase a personal tropical island?

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Sleepless in San Francisco: My First Day With the Sierra Club

Michael Brune | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wind Power, Coal Plants, Environmentalism, Wilderness, Clean Energy, Coal, Environment, Dirty Coal, Rainforest Action Network, Adventure-Tourism, Energy Efficiency, Volunteering, Activism, Climate Change, Sierra Club, Wilderness Protection, Solar Power, Green News
Michael Brune

As effective as the Sierra Club has been, we need to do our best work in the years ahead. Looking forward, here are a few projects we want to complete.

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Yes We Can -- And We Are

Carl Pope | Posted 05.25.2011

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Carl Pope

In the past two weeks alone, we've taken several really major steps forward to a clean-energy future. It's clear that we not only can but should cut our carbon emissions much faster than anyone in Congress is talking about.

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Celebrating the Blessings of a Coal-Based Economy: Who Needs Teeth When You've Got Cheap Power?

David Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Coal Plants, Appalachia, Illiteracy, Poverty, West Virginia, Joe Manchin, Obesity, Pollution, Coal, Green News
David Roberts

Gov. Joe Manchin has declared coal to be the state rock of West Virginia. But why should her stop there? Having a coal-based economy has given his state so many other reasons to celebrate!

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Energy Lessons for Europe and the U.S. from the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo

Charles D. Ferguson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Coal Plants, Russia, Council on Foreign Relations, Central Europe, Gasoline Prices, Conservation, Cars, Obama Administration, Coal, Eu, Cheap Gas Prices, Oil Embargo, Solar Energy, Electricity, Oil Price, Washington, Arab Oil Embargo, Israel, Yom Kippur War, Natural Gas, Eu Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Cfr, Opec, Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Wind, Russian Gas Dependence, Ukraine, Suvs, Energy Efficiency, Eastern Europe, Increase, Geothermal, United States, Heat Oil, Carbon Dioxide, International Energy Agency, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Renewable Sources of Energy, World News
Charles D. Ferguson

While feeling angry is justified in a crisis, the governments would be best advised not to get mad at Russia but to get more secure in energy supplies and smarter in energy usage.

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Putting America on a Carbon Diet

Gillian Caldwell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Coal Plants, Ipcc Report, Green Jobs, Carbon Emissions, Oil, Renewable Energy, Climate Change, Clean Energy, Al Gore, Coal, Poznan Climate Change Conference, Gillian Caldwell, Global Warming, Barack Obama, 1sky, World News
Gillian Caldwell

We need to start a carbon diet, and not let the US reach for that donut. Delaying serious short-term cuts in carbon emissions is like saying we will start our diet next January. Why not this January?

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