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

Dave Cooper | Posted 07.07.2009 | Green

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

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 06.29.2009 | 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
Jerry Cope

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 06.24.2009 | Green

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

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 06.23.2009 | 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
Jeff Biggers

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 06.21.2009 | 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
Jeff Biggers

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 06.20.2009 | 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 06.18.2009 | Green

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

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 06.15.2009 | Green

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

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 05.08.2009 | 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
David Roberts

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 04.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Massey Energy, Dirty Coal, Solar, Green Jobs, TVA Coal Ash Pond Disaster, Renewable Energy, Wind, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Offshore Wind, Coal, Barack Obama, Department of the Interior, Epa, Biomass, Climate Change, Nancy Pelosi, James Hansen, Harry Reid, Mountaintop Removal, Ken Salazar, Lisa Jackson, Green Energy, Capitol Power Plant, Global Warming, Green News
Jeff Biggers

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 04.27.2009 | 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 04.27.2009 | Green

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

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 03.16.2009 | 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
Jerry Cope

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 03.05.2009 | 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
Jerry Cope

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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Dr. James Hansen Calls on Americans to Join Him at the Largest Protest on Global Warming in U.S. History

Daniel Kessler | Posted 02.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Renewable Energy, James Hansen, Coal, Greenpeace, Green News
Daniel Kessler

Dr. James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists, is calling on Americans to join him on March 2nd at the Capitol Power Plant in the la...

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Biggest Ever Civil Disobedience on Climate at Congressional Power Plant

Daniel Kessler | Posted 02.03.2009 | 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
Daniel Kessler

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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Carbon Tax is a Poison Pill

David Roberts | Posted 01.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Bob Corker, Arthur Laffer, Rex Tillerson, James Hansen, Climate Change, Carbon Tax, James Inhofe, Cap-and-Trade, Global Warming, Green News
David Roberts

This may piss off some people I respect a great deal. Nonetheless, after hearing it in several off-the-record conversations in D.C. last week, I believe it's something that needs to be said publicly.

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Breathe Deep the Green Winds of Change, Just in Time

Jerry Cope | Posted 01.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Barak Obama, Antarctica, Ipcc, 350.Org, North Carolina Obama, Environment, James Hansen, Climate Change, Bill Mckibben, Global Warming, Green News
Jerry Cope

Will Congress and the American people give our new President and his administration the support necessary to embark on the path to a long term sustainable future not only for ourselves, but the world?

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James Hansen's Open Letter To Obama: From A Top NASA Scientist And A Fellow Parent

Grist | Posted 01.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Obama Energy, Obama Environment, Climate Change, Environment, James Hansen, Barack Obama, Green News

Dear Michelle and Barack, We write to you as fellow parents concerned about the Earth that will be inherited by our children, grandchildren, and th...

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The Top 5 Environmental Newsmakers of 2008

Maura Judkis | Posted 12.30.2008 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Cap and Trade, T. Boone Pickens, Alternative Energy, Electric Cars, Sarah Palin, James Hansen, Green Living, Al Gore, Barack Obama, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Green News
Maura Judkis

Here are five of the most environmentally newsworthy people of the year, both good and bad. Who would be on your list?

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Vote For Your Eco-Hero Of 2008: Obama, Friedman, Sebelius, Jones And More

Grist | Posted 12.22.2008 | Green

Read More: Oprah Winfrey, Environment, James Hansen, Kathleen Sebelius, Van Jones, Barack Obama, Tom Friedman, Green News

Check out our nominees, and then vote in the poll below. And tell us who we missed in comments. (Also see our list of villains.) Barack Obama OK, ...

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Obama Likely To Face Even Higher Global Temperatures

Climate Progress | Jeff Goodell | Posted 12.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, President Obama, Politicians, Green News, Environment, American Geophysical Union, James Hansen, Co2, Obama, Climate Change, Coal, Global Warming, Truth, Green News

The themes of James Hansen's recent talk at American Geophysical Union's fall meeting were not new to anyone who has heard him speak recently (or to r...

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Message from Poznan: Time for Mass Mobilization to Stop Global Warming Emissions

Betsy Taylor | Posted 12.15.2008 | Green

Read More: Al Gore Global Warming, Emission Permits, Cap and Trade, Copenhagen 2009, Carbon Emissions, 350.Org, European Union, Betsy Taylor, Eu, Coal, Island Nations, Germany, Oil, James Hansen, Climate Change, Al Gore, Bill Mckibben, Poznan Climate Change Conference, Global Warming, 1sky, Green News
Betsy Taylor

It's going to take a lot more than the... chaotic process I watched in Poznan over the past two weeks for us to cut global warming emissions as deeply and quickly as scientists say is necessary.

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Day of Action Against Coal

Michael Brune | Posted 11.14.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Wind Power, Mountaintop Removal, James Hansen, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Coal, Solar Power, Obama Coal, Clean Coal, Green News
Michael Brune

The citizens of Coal River Mountain, West Virginia are already working on building their own future with clean power.

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Dreaming the Future Can Create the Future

Kenny Ausubel | Posted 11.10.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Tom Linzey, Bioneers, Renewable Energy, Globalization, Clean Energy, Ecoliteracy, Collapse, Energy Policy, Indigenous People, Ecuador, Ecology, Climate Change, David Orr, Environment, James Hansen, Green-Collar Jobs, Globalocal, Global Warming, Google, Biomimicry, Green News
Kenny Ausubel

We stand at the threshold of a singular opportunity in the human experiment: To re-imagine how to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations.

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