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Boulder Start-up to Profit on Atmospheric CO2 in Manufacturing

Anne Butterfield | Posted 11.09.2009 | Denver

Read More: Ocean Acidification, Climate Change, Carbon Storage, Coal Industry, Carbon Capture, James Hansen, 350ppm, Global Warming, Coal Power, Denver News

How about a plan to reduce atmospheric CO2 at industrial scale in a safe and economically attractive scheme?

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Climate Wrap-Up: Barcelona Talks Marked by Urgency, Frustration and Pleas for Patience

J. Carl Ganter | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

Read More: James Hansen, Keith Schneider, Barcelona, Copenhagen 2009, UN Climate Change, Water, Bangkok, Green News

Barcelona was supposed to bring hints of what's to come in December at the United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen. A world seeking sanity.

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Heads Up! Massey Energy Now Blasting Coal River Mountain

Jerry Cope | Posted 10.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Appalachia, Ceq, Epa, President Obama, Daryl Hannah, James Hansen, Coal River Mountain, Mountain Top Removal, Obama Administration, Bo-Webb, Wvdep, Coal-Country, Coal-River, Michael-Shnayerson, Green News

The forecast in Coal River, W.V. now calls for heavy boulders and flying debris. Climate scientist James Hansen has declared it "ground zero in the fight against climate change".

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COP15 in Copenhagen Critical as Tipping Points Reached; Global Rise of 6.3 Degrees Now Forecast

Jerry Cope | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Susan Solomon, cop15, Unep, Climate Week Nyc, James Hansen, Climate Change, Bill Mckibben, Global Warming, Ecolypse, Green News

COP15 may very well be the last chance for the world to reach a consensus on measures to reduce GHG emissions and avoid climate chaos for the next millennium.

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Private Security Walks Off The Job in Protest; Coal Company Goes Too Far

Jerry Cope | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Ken Hechler, Massey Energy, Civil Disobedience, West Virginia, Epa, Mountain Top Removal, James Hansen, Daryl Hannah, Climate Change, Coal Mining, Coal, Tree-Hugger, Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Policy, Environment, Green News

Laura Steepleton and Nick Stocks spent the past week tree-sitting 80 feet above the ground in an act of civil disobedience protesting Massey Energy's mountaintop removal site there.

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IPCC Chair Says 350ppm Is the Number

Steve Kirsch | Posted 09.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Co2, Green, James Hansen, Ipcc, 350.Org, Rajendra Pauchauri, Global Warming, Green News

We have the technology to meet the goal. What we lack is the political will and we need that in spades to aggressively pursue all of the clean power technologies we have for efficiency and new power. We should be treating this like a war, but we clearly are not.

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Oil and Coal Companies to Begin Huge Scuba Giveaway

Jerry Cope | Posted 09.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Marsh-Fork-Elementary, Rising Sea Level, Mountaintop Removal, Massey Energy, Climate Change, Exxon, Daryl Hannah, James Hansen, Coal, Humanitarian Aid, Global Warming, Tuvalu, cop15, Exxonmobil, Satire, Green News

After years of climate change denial, a consortium of energy industry giants led by ExxonMobil and Massey Energy are launching a global campaign to provide island nations with equipment to combat rising sea levels.

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Climate Disobedience: Is a New "Seattle" in the Making?

Mark Engler | Posted 09.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Kingsnorth-Sabotage, Climate Change, Kingsnorth 6, Environmentalism, James Hansen, Direct Action Environmentalism, Direct Action, Greenpeace, Green News

In 2007, a group of Greenpeace activists in Britain sent tremors through an emerging global movement determined to use direct action to combat the depredations of climate change.

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Summer Reading: Manmade Disaster II

Seth Bauer | Posted 08.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, James Inhofe, Dust Bowl, Climate Change, James Hansen, Fox News, Climate Change Skeptics, John S. Theon, Global Warming, Timothy Egan, Alan Carlin, Green News

Climate change skeptics were on my mind this week as I read, The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan's book on the Dust Bowl. Now Sen. James Inhofe is helping to write the sequel.

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NASA's James Hansen Recycles Myths in His Pointless Attack on U.S. Climate Action

Joseph Romm | Posted 08.10.2009 | Green

Read More: James Hansen, G8, Clean Energy, Global Warming, Waxman-Markey, Green News

Hansen can keep pushing his carbon tax if he wants to. Heck, he can argue the merits of Betamax if he wants. But trashing Waxman-Markey based on recycled myths remains ill-conceived and unhelpful.

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West Virginia Coal Thugs Disrupt July 4th Picnic (Video)

Dave Cooper | Posted 08.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Coal, Miners, Daryl Hannah, James Hansen, Mountaintop Removal, Dancing Outlaw, Manchin, Strip Mining, Massey, Kayford, Green News

Irate coal miners disrupted the annual 4th of July community picnic atop Larry Gibson's Kayford Mountain, the only mountain left in the area that has not been decapitated for coal.

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Almost Hell West Virginia; Where Is The Obama Administration?

Jerry Cope | Posted 07.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Massey Energy, Obama Appalachia, Marsh-Fork-Elementary, Civil Disobedience, Epa, Daryl Hannah, Obama Administration, Appalachia, Ecocide, Mountaintop Removal, West-Virginia-Department-of-Environmental-Protection, Don Blankenship, Disasters, Coal River Mountain, James Hansen, Coal River Mountain Watch, Toxic Waste, Federal Office of Surface Mining, Coal Mining, Massey Coal, Mtr, Mike Brune, Ran, Rainforest Action Network, Coal River Valley, Green News

Coal mining is the Appalachians is the great American tragedy, and every citizen of this country should be ashamed and horrified that we are collectively allowing this to happen.

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Lord, Give Me Time

Carl Pope | Posted 07.25.2009 | Green

Read More: James Hansen, Daryl Hannah, Judy Bonds, Mountaintop Removal, Coal Mining, Green News

The defense of mountaintop-removal mining -- as formerly with strip-mining -- is that the economy of Appalachia depends on it. This canard now has been solidly rebutted.

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Updated:VIDEO: Nonviolent Goldman Prize Winner Attacked by Massey Supporter: 94-Year-Old Hechler, Hannah, Hansen Arrested at Coal River

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Appalachia, Lisa Jackson, Dirty Coal, Barack Obama, Epa, Ken Hechler, Mountaintop Removal, Daryl Hannah, James Hansen, Coal, Daryl Hannah Arrested, Daryl Hannah Coal River, Daryl Hannah Arrest, Daryl Hannah Arrested in West Viginia, Green News

Daryl Hannah, NASA's celebrated climate scientist James Hansen, and 94-year-old Ken Hechler, the legendary congressman and coal miner hero were arrested in a non-violent protest in West Virginia.

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Reckoning at Coal River: Media and Nation Must Bear Witness to Coalfield Tragedy This Week

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Lisa Jackson, Massey Energy, Smcra, Barack Obama, Carol Browner, Epa, Ken Hechler, Nancy Sutley, Coal River Mountain, Mountaintop Removal, Al Gore, Darryl Hannah, James Hansen, Coal, Benjamin Carden, Green News

The human rights and constitutional violations of American citizens besieged by ruthless outside coal companies will be on full display this week to the national media and the nation.

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Coal Exec Challenges Climate Scientist To Debate (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 07.21.2009 | Green

Read More: James Hansen, Don Blankenship, Green News

Massey Energy President Don Blankenship challenged one of the world's top climate experts to a debate on global warming this week after learning NASA ...

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Update on Today's Daring Dragline Protest, Launches 7 Days That Will Shake Mountaintop Removal Operations

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Appalachia, Coal River, Dirty Coal, Judy Bonds, Ken Hchler, Ran, James Hansen, Mountaintop Removal, Coal, Darryl Hannah, Green News

Four daring protesters accomplished something today that no high ranking member in the Obama administration has ever bothered to do.

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Waxman-Markey: Three Tough, Unanswered Questions

Steve Kirsch | Posted 07.16.2009 | Green

Read More: James Hansen, Fast Reactors, Ccs, Global Warming, Aces, Waxman-Markey, Ifr, Green News

I thought it would be fun to speculate at how Waxman and Markey might have responded if they were required to answer each question directly, without being "politically correct."

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Cap-and-Trade vs. Carbon Tax: A Bird in Hand Is Worth Two on Alpha Centauri

David Roberts | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cap and Trade, Kevin Drum, Carbon Tax, Andrew Sullivan, Cap-and-Trade, Renewable Energy, James Hansen, Climate Change, Carbon Taxes, Politics News

grist.orgI find it really hard to believe, but the perennial "carbon tax vs. cap-and-trade" debate is still going on. It goes on and on and on and it ...

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Obama's First 100 Days of Coal: A Few Honest Words, Please

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.28.2009 | Green

Let's hope the next 100 days bring us a real green jobs package for the coalfields.

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"60 Minutes" Coal Reporting Misses Point (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 05.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, James Hansen, Clean Coal, Pollution, Coal, 60 Minutes Coal, Green News

This week's "60 Minutes" had a feature on coal which compares the CEO of Duke Energy "a reformed tobacco executive." Sounds like it has potential, rig...

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60 Minutes on Coal: Dancing Around the Question

David Roberts | Posted 05.28.2009 | Green

Read More: James Hansen, Clean Energy, Clean Coal, Coal, Jim Rogers, Green News

Can we phase out coal and maintain a modern economy? It seems that it never occurs to the producers of 60 Minutes to seriously ask the question.

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Copenhagen 2009; An Interview With Katherine Richardson, Chair of The International Climate Conference

Jerry Cope | Posted 04.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Copenhagen 2009, Ipcc, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change, Global Warming, Rising Sea Level, The Guardian, Angela Merkel, Bjorn Lomborg, James Hansen, Katherine Richardson.Lord Stern, Bbc News, Green News

How many people in the US realize that the UN panel on climate change said there is 90% chance that the climate change we are seeing at the moment is caused by human activity?

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The DC Shuffle; Saving the World From Death By Coal

Jerry Cope | Posted 04.05.2009 | Green

Read More: 350.Org, Terry Tempest Williams, Big Coal, Gustav Speth, Kathy Mattea, Greenpeace, Coal, Daryl-Hannah, Rainforest Action Network, Wendall Berry, James Hansen, Climate Change, Bill Mckibben, Coal Mining, Global Warming, Vandava Shiva, Robert Kennedy, cop15, Green News

March 2nd was historic -- a shining example of what citizens in a democracy can achieve when united in a common cause: eliminating coal-fired power plants in the US.

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Biggest Ever Civil Disobedience on Climate at Congressional Power Plant

Daniel Kessler | Posted 03.06.2009 | Green

Read More: James Hansen, Greenpeace, Capitol Power Plant, Global Warming, Activism, Big Coal, Political Activism, Environment, Washington DC, Environmentalism, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Coal, Social Activism, Eco-Friendly, Earth, Protesting, Green News

Of all the fossil fuels, coal is the single biggest contributor to global warming; Burning it cuts short at least 24,000 lives in the U.S. annually.

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