Coal Power

The New World Bank President's First Night

Carl Pope | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Environment, Argentina, Goldman Environmental Prize, Kenya, Sierra Club, World Bank, World Bank Development, Coal Power, Green News

The kinds of "big" development schemes that come most easily to the World Bank often bring with them nominal increases in gross domestic product, but only do so by degrading natural and community systems on which billions of people depend.

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Love the Tech, but the Cloud Needs Some Cleaning

Kevin Grandia | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Data Centers, Apple, Data Cloud, Green News, Microsoft, Green, Sustainability, Angry Birds, Greenpeace Apple Coal, Climate Change, Coal Power, Global Warming, Amazon, Video, Green News

A report released today by Greenpeace International finds that major tech companies Apple, Microsoft and Amazon are burning vast amounts of polluting coal to power their data "clouds."

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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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Rahm Tells Polluting Coal Plants To Clean Up Their Act

Posted 02.22.2012

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

Mayor Rahm Emanuel has put Chicago's two coal power plants on warning: Either present a plan to clean up their pollution or risk being shut down by th...

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Climate Dawn

Carl Pope | Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: Emissions Standards, Environmental Successes, Climate Change, Epa, Keystone Pipeline, Pollution, Coal Power, Barack Obama, 2011 Review, Green News

You might be surprised to learn that I think climate protection may have posted its best quarterly results ever in the last three months of 2011.

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Occupy, Xcel, And the Mother of All Cliffs

Anne Butterfield | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Community Owned Solar, Leslie Glustrom, Coal Power, Xcel Energy, Boulder Energy, Occupy Wall Street, Boulder, Denver News

While the nation salivates -- or trembles -- at the thought of how the Occupy Wall Street movement will affect elections for years to come, an Occupy-style ballot initiative is being voted on in Boulder.

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EPA Unveils New Standards For Coal-Fired Power Plants

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Coal Power, Lisa Jackson, Clean Air, Epa, 112th Congress, Power Plants, Pollution, Coal, Epa Pollution Regulations, Clean Air Act, Green News

WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency announced new rules Thursday for coal-fired power plants to help curb the air pollution that has mar...

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The Global Energy Crisis Deepens: Three Energy Developments That Are Changing Your Life

Michael T. Klare | Posted 08.06.2011

Read More: Foreign Oil, Foreign Energy Supply, u.s. Energy, Oil, Green Energy, Arab Spring, Nuclear Power, Coal Power, Green News

Any expectations that ever-increasing supplies of energy will meet demand are destined to be disappointed. Instead, recurring shortages, rising prices, and mounting discontent are likely to be the thematic drumbeat of the globe's energy future.

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Ted Turner Says Coal, Oil Industries Need 'A Good A** Kicking'

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Wind Power, Coal Power, West Virginia Coal, General Electric, Severe Weather, Jay Rockefeller, Clean Coal, Awea, Renewable Energy, Climate Change, Wind Energy, Global Warming, Ted Turner, Ge, Green News

ANAHEIM, C.A. -- Philanthropist and CNN founder Ted Turner has turned his sights to renewable energy -- and he had some fighting words for the wind in...

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Green Power or White Privilege?

Cali Slaughter | Posted 07.02.2011

Read More: Environmental Justice, Pilsen, Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, Solis, Pilsen Environmental Rights and Reform Organization, League of United Latin American Citizens, Environmental Racism, Southwest Side, Fisk, Chicago, Asthma, Little Village, Coal Power, Ozone, Gentrification, Clean Power Ordinance, Crawford, Chicago News

The struggle against Fisk and Crawford power plants has been ongoing for decades. Today the issue has effectively perked the ears of politicians. How influenced were they by the rapid gentrification of Pilsen?

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The Search For Meaning And A Coal-Free Washington

Mallory McDuff, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Religion, Religious Environmentalism, Washington State, Environmental Advocacy, Faith, Coal, Climate Change, Earth Ministry, Washington, Environment, Coal Power, Religion News

Surprisingly, the state of Washington has found a voice through faith that may set a precedent for climate action amid paralysis in the "other Washington."

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Obama Is Whistling Past Coal's Graveyard

Anne Butterfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Coal Power, Clean Coal, Big Coal, Renewable Energy, Clean Energy, Obama State of the Union, Climategate, Obama SOTU 2011, Denver News

Climate hawks and world leaders should stick to the truth, knowing it will pay dividends in street cred down the road as human-caused climate change is inexorably, irrefutably and tragically vindicated.

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600 New Energy Jobs for Southern Illinois -- Without Rate Hikes or New Pollution

Jack Darin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Renewable Energy, Coal Power, Pike County Illinois, Green Jobs, Chicago News

To hear the coal lobbyists in Springfield tell it, creating energy jobs in Illinois has to mean higher electric and gas bills, more pollution, and sweetheart deals for specific companies.

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Xcel Energy Explores Expedited Closure Of Coal-Fired Unit

AP | CATHERINE TSAI | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Coal Power, Excel Energy, Xcel, Cherokee 4, Coal Plant, Colorado Renewable Energy, Colorado Mining Association, Colorado Public Utilities Commission, Colorado, Renewables, Denver News

DENVER — Xcel Energy Inc. is studying what it would take to speed up its timetable for retiring some coal-fired power plants to help Colorado me...

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Boulder's 2B Means Progress Toward Clean Energy

Anne Butterfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Boulder City Council, Clean Air-Clean Jobs Act, Coal Power, Xcel Energy, Colorado Mining Association, Denver News

Xcel has morphed into being a taxing authority for Boulder, and this status will last to the end of this year when its franchise expires.

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Better to Charge for Emissions Than Ban New Coal Plants

Jeffrey Rubin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wind Power, Coal Power, China, Carbon Emissions, Waxman-Markey, Carbon Tariffs, Business News

Rather than banning the construction of new coal-fired power plants, America should tax domestic carbon emissions. Then we could enact carbon tariff on imports, and thereby level the playing field for our manufacturers.

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Real Growing Pains and the Clean Air-Clean Jobs Act

Anne Butterfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Coal Power, Xcel Energy, Coal-Power-Plant, Clean Coal, Clean Air Clean Jobs Act, Cherokee Plant, Clean Air Act, Denver News

Nearly 80 percent of voters prefer their power to be generated by natural gas and renewable resources instead of coal -- and are willing to pay for it.

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Study: Coal Production To Peak In 2011

Planet Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Coal Power, Peak Coal, Coal Production Peak, Coal Production, Coal Peak, Green News

Will Coal Supplies Peak in 2011? That's the prediction made by a recent study of reserves and historic coal production....

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Solar-Coal Hybrid Project Being Tested In Colorado

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Xcel Energy, Coal Power, Renewable Energy, Solar Power, Green Energy, Solar Coal Hybrid, Grand Junction Colorado, Denver News

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — What if a coal-fired power plant could use energy from the sun to reduce how much coal it needs to generate electricity?...

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America Loves Dirty Coal: Industry Prepares For Biggest Expansion In Two Decades

AP | MATTHEW BROWN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, US Coal Power Expansions, Coal Power Grows, Coal Power Industry, Coal Power Expansion, US Coal Power Industry, US Coal Power Growth, US Coal Power, Coal Power, Energy Debates, Green News

WYODAK, Wyo. — Utilities across the country are building dozens of old-style coal plants that will cement the industry's standing as the largest...

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Coal in for a Bumpy Ride and a Final Decline

Anne Butterfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Thomas DiNapoli, Massey Energy, Coal Power, Joe Manchin, Don Blankenship, Coal, Upper Big Branch Mine, Richard Trumka, Denver News

In the past three weeks, our nation crossed a line in how we think about coal, and it now seems coal's long flight of dominating how we produce electricity has embarked on a final decline.

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Paying the IOU: Boulder and its Expiring Xcel Franchise

Anne Butterfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Boulder-Politics, Coal Power, Xcel Energy, Fossil Fuels, American Public Power Association, PG&E, Proposition 16, Utilities, Climate Change, Municipal Utilities, Dick Kelly, Denver News

With Xcel, Boulder pays Cadillac prices to cruise at the clean edge of the fossil fuel pack, but with a muni, we could be in a thrifty Prius zooming towards lots of wind and solar, shielded from coal's various costs.

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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

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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How the West Is Winning Against Coal

Bruce Nilles | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nevada, Los Angeles, Coal, Sierra Club, Blackstone Group, Sithe Global, California, Coal Power, Xcel Energy, Colorado-Renewable-Energy, New Energy Economy, Bill Ritter, Green News

There is so much good news coming out of the western U.S. these days on coal and clean energy, from Colorado to Los Angeles.

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WildEarth Guardians, Environmental Group, File Suit To Prevent Xcel From Opening New Coal Plant

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Coal Energy, Coal Power, Xcel, Colorado Department of Public Health, Publo Colorado, Coal Plant, Greenhouse Gases, Xcel Law Suit, Wildearth Guardians, Clean Air Act, Denver News

DENVER — An environmental group wants a judge to prevent Xcel Energy from firing up a new coal-fired plant in southern Colorado until a court ca...

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