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'Green News Report' - April 12, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Energy, Gas Prices, Green Jobs, Epa, Carbon Dioxide, Regulation, Environmentalism, Green News Report, Green Energy, Barack Obama, Climate Scientists, Video, 2012 Presidential Election, BRAD BLOG, Fossil Fuels, Tipping Point, Climate Science, Green News, Sustainability, Gop, Natural Gas, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Oceans, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Air Pollution, Global Warming Deniers, Overfishing, Global Warming, Republicans, Oysters, Offshore Drilling, Ocean Acidification, Beyond Coal Campaign, Coal, Trees, Creationism, Tennessee, Anti-Science, Green News

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: 'Better l...

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The Sierra Club and Natural Gas

Michael Brune | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Beyond Coal Campaign, Natural Gas Drilling, Natural Gas, Sierra Club, Chesapeake Energy, Green News

It's time to stop thinking of natural gas as a "kinder, gentler" energy source. What's more, we do not have an effective regulatory system in this country to address the risks that gas drilling poses on our health and communities.

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WATCH: College Students Nationwide Speak Out Against Coal

Posted 11.18.2011

Read More: Video, Student Activism, Power Shift, Coal-Fired Power Plants, Coal Industry, Beyond Coal Campaign, Student Protests Coal, Beyond Coal Protests, Coal, Coal Mining, Green News

Last month, students from colleges and universities across the country became a part of the Sierra Club's ongoing Beyond Coal campaign. Student act...

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PHOTOS: Disturbing Ad Campaign Suggests Power Plants Could Threaten Pregnancies

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Christian | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Video, American Lung Association, Coal-Fired Power Plants, Pregnancy Mercury, Mercury Pollution, Beyond Coal Campaign, The Sierra Club, Mercury Poisoning, Sierra Club Mercury, Sierra Club Ad Campaign, Green News

Disturbing images of pregnant bellies confronted commuters in Washington, DC this week. The threat of mercury pollution from coal-fired power plan...

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WATCH: DJ Steve Porter Remixes Bloomberg And Beyond Coal

Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Energy, Beyond Coal, Video, Michael Bloomberg, Renewable Energy, Beyond Coal Campaign, DJ Steve Porter, Sierra Club, Coal, Beyond Coal Remix, Green News

DJ Steve Porter, known for his remixes of infomercials and press conferences, has teamed up with the Sierra Club and their Beyond Coal campaign. Th...

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Christmas in Summer

Javier Sierra | Posted 10.05.2011

Read More: Coal Pollution, Heat Wave, Latinos and Pollution, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Michael Bloomberg, Climate Change, Public Health, Big Coal, Beyond Coal Campaign, Dirty Coal-Fired Plants, Sierra Club, Premature-Deaths, Green News

In this Christmas in the summertime, Bloomberg has planted a seed of hope that promises that Big Coal's days are numbered.

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Game Time

Carl Pope | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Beyond Coal Campaign, Sierra Club, Coal, Michael Bloomberg, Green News

As of today, the coal lobby knows that it faces an opposition that is not only organized, not only networked, not only national -- but also empowered.

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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

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

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Moving Beyond Coal: A Game-Changer

Mary Anne Hitt | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Sierra Student Coaliton, Beyond Coal Campaign, Sierra Club, Coal, Michael Bloomberg, Green News

New York mayor and philanthropist Michael Bloomberg just announced a $50 million commitment over four years to clean the air, move beyond coal, and accelerate the transition to cleaner, cost-effective energy sources.

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Sierra Club Took My Hair and All I Got Was a Beyond Coal Button

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 06.15.2011

Read More: Epa, Governor Jerry Brown, Cerebral Palsy, Learning Disabilities, Mercury, Ladwp, Beyond Coal Campaign, Neurotoxin, Lisa Jackson, Mercury Poisoning, Sierra Club, The Cove, Clean Air Act, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Methylmercury, University of Georgia, Green News

I just had a lock of my hair chopped off to benefit science and the planet. I was joined by other moms, children and babies in more than 25 cities ac...

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The Reign of King Coal is Ending

Bruce Nilles | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Epa, Beyond Coal Campaign, Clean Energy, Coal, Sierra Club, Home News

by Bruce Nilles, Director of the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign Contrary to the impression you may have been left with after reading a recent Asso...

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Los Angeles City Council Has the Chance to Prepare for the Coming Storm of Increasingly Expensive Coal

Bill Corcoran | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Renewable Energy, Beyond Coal Campaign, Los Angeles City Council, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Mayor Villaraigosa, Green Energy, Los Angeles, Sierra Club, Los Angeles News

What is unique about this particular cloud hovering above Navajo Generating Station is that this time, it isn't just pollution. This cloud is a storm of financial calamity heading right for LA.

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Leaders Needed to Move LA Beyond Coal and Into the Sunlight

Bill Corcoran | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Renewable Energy, Ladwp, Beyond Coal Campaign, Energy Efficiency, Green Jobs, Mayor Villaraigosa, Sierra Club, Los-Angeles-City-Council, Los Angeles News

When it comes to reforming the way Los Angeles gets its power, sunlight is useful in more ways than one.

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Stopping Blackstone Coal

Bruce Nilles | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Blackstone, Coal, Sierra Club, Coal Ash, Toquop Coal, Desert Rock Coal, Coal Plant, Sithe Global, Renewable Energy, Beyond Coal Campaign, Green News

Last week when we hit the 100th coal-fired plant abandoned or prevented in the U.S., someone asked me, "What's next?" My answer came quickly: "It's time to stop the next 100."

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