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Illinois Ranks As Worst Rogue Coal State: Strip Mine Permit to Serial Violator Stuns Residents

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.01.2013 | Green
Read More: Dirty Coal, Rod Blagojevich, Climate Change, Coal, Black Lung, Strip Mining, Lisa Madigan, Illinois, Gov. Pat Quinn, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Whether she runs for governor or not, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan would need nine lives to bring the state's notoriously broken regulatory system into compliance with the nation's most reckless coal industry.

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You'll Never Guess What THIS Is

Posted 04.15.2013 | Science
Read More: Nanoparticles, Video, Lung Image, Daily Discovery, Microscope, Biology, Lung Picture, Lung Pattern, Black Lung, Lungs, Biophysics, Science News

By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 04/15/2013 07:44 AM EDT on LiveScience A beautiful black-and-white image that looks lik...

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GOP Worships the 'Hand,' Disrespects Those Who Work With Them

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.04.2013 | Politics
Read More: Silicosis, President Obama, John Boehner, Usw, United Steelworkers, Newt Gingrich, Donora Inversion, Barack Obama, Eric Cantor, Minimum Wage, Wall Street Crash, USA Today, Asbestosis, Pew Research, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Black Lung, Child Labor Laws, Swill Milk, IGM Forum, Video, Politics News
Leo W. Gerard

The invisible hand of the market, which the GOP worships as an infallible god, is curled into a fist and is pounding America's lowest-paid workers.

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Dave Jamieson

'Playing Politics With People's Lives'

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 08.18.2012 | Politics
Read More: Congress, Jay Rockefeller, Miners, West Virginia, Black Lung Disease, Mine Safety, Workplace Safety, Coal, Coal Lobby, Dirty Coal, Msha, Video, Mining, Denny Rehberg, Kentucky, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Coal Mining, Black Lung, National Mining Association, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Someday, a device known as the personal dust monitor could save coal miners a lot of misery. The "PDM," as it's known in mining circ...

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Black Lung: Coal's Dirty Politics

Mary Anne Hitt | Posted 09.26.2012 | Green
Read More: Environment, Energy, Politics, Congress, Pollution, Environmental Health, Black Lung, Sierra Club, Coal, Green News
Mary Anne Hitt

House Republicans and the coal industry are putting profits and politics above public health, specifically above the health of those workers they are so quick to defend in pro-coal commercials and at public hearings.

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'Green News Report' - July 19, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 09.18.2012 | Green
Read More: Floods, Green Jobs, Epa, Regulation, Clean Energy, Green News Report, Pollution, Green Energy, Drought, Video, Solar Energy, 2012 Presidential Election, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Climate Science, Anti-Science, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Energy, Farming, Climate, Corn, Carbon Dioxide, Environmentalism, National Climatic Data Center, BRAD BLOG, Tipping Point, Noaa, Green News, Sustainability, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Republicans, Australia, Fda, Coal, Monsanto, Stephen Colbert, Dow Chemical, Greenland, Genetically Modified Food, Bpa, Gmos, Carbon Tax, Black Lung, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

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

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Black lung surges back in coal country

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 09.08.2012 | Green
Read More: Appalachia Coal, Appalachia, Black Lung, Coal Mining, Green News
The Center for Public Integrity

By Chris HambyiWatch NewsPRESTONSBURG, Ky. -- Ray Marcum bears the marks of a bygone era of coal mining. At 83, his voice is raspy, his eastern Kent...

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Dave Jamieson

GOP Gives Christmas Gift To Big Coal, Endangers Miners

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 12.19.2011 | Politics
Read More: Coal Miners, Massey Energy, Video, Miners Black Lung, Miners, Budget, Government Shutdown, Mining, Gop, Black Lung Disease, Democrats, Coal, Coal Mining, Black Lung, Upper Big Branch Mine, Republicans, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- As House Republicans and Democrats patted one another on the back over their new spending agreement Friday, advocates for coal miners we...

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Black Lung Disease On The Rise Again

Posted 07.23.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Miners Black Lung Disease, Miners Black Lung, Coal Miners Black Lung, Coal Mine Black Lung, Miners Lung Disease, Black Lung Disease, Healthy Living Health News, Black Lung, Healthy Living News

Black lung disease, long a killer of coal miners, is on the rise again after retreating in the 30 years since Congress passed tougher mine safety ...

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Persistent Black Lung, Old Scourge Of Coal, Found In Autopsies Of Most Massey Miners

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 07.19.2011 | Green
Read More: West Virginia Mine Disaster, West Virginia Black Lung, West Virgina Disaster, Coal Mine Black Lung, Massey Black Lunch, Massey Miners, Massey Mine, Black Lung Disease, Black Lung, Coal, Massey Mine Disaster, Green News
The Center for Public Integrity

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Declaration of Clean Energy Independence: We Need a Road Map to a Coal Free Future

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Mining Disaster, Appalachia, Lisa Jackson, Dirty Coal, Mountaintop Removal, Green Jobs, Epa, President Obama, Kentucky, Coal Ash, Clean Energy, Illinois, Black Lung, Coal, Green News
Jeff Biggers

In the wake of the worst coal mining disaster in 40 years, compromise and political machinations this spring have resulted in a regulatory crisis of f...

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Energy Sec. Chu Calls for More Black Lung, Strip-Mining, Coal Ash, Coal Slurry and Coalfield Poverty

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Carbon Capture and Storage, Jay Rockefeller, West Virginia, Carbon Emissions, Clean Coal, YERT.Com, Strip-Mining, Utah, Doe, Dirty Coal, Epa, Steven Chu, Big Coal, Coal Ash, Mountaintop Removal, Illinois, Black Lung, Energy, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Chu triumphantly told his Big Coal listeners that he would "save coal" by investing billions into still infeasible, prohibitively expensive, unproven and fanciful carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology.

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Green News Report -- March 30, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Epa, West Virginia, Clean Energy, Green News Report, Whales, Climategate, Coal, Obama Health Care, Mountaintop Removal, Clean Energy Race, Earth Hour, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Tea Party, Coal Mining, Solar Power, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Rio Tinto, Toxic Water, Ipcc, Carbon Emissions, Green Building, World Meterological Organization, Energy Policy, Rajendra Pachauri, Toxic Chemicals, BRAD BLOG, Pew Research Center, Sarah Palin, Green News, Koch Industries, Black Lung, China, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

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

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Green News Report -- March 16, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Fracking, St. Patrick's Day, Vancouver Olympics, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Epa, 9/11, Green News Report, Coal, Killer Whales, Geoengineering, Energy Efficiency, EPA Soot Standards, BRAD BLOG, Health Care Reform, Green News, Climate Change Denial, Chamber of Commerce, Hydraulic Fracturing, Daylight Savings Time, Global Warming Skepticism, Extreme Weather, Air Pollution, Climate Change Skeptics, Global Warming Deniers, Black Lung, Ground Zero, Green Beer, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport Now available via Stitcher Radio's way cool app! Listen on your iPhone, Android, Palm Pre and BlackBerry! IN TODAY'S RADI...

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What's the Matter With Midwestern Democrats and Coal?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Dirty Coal, President Obama, Mountaintop Removal, Green Jobs, Climate Change, Epa, Renewable Energy, Coal Ash, Clean Energy, Democrats, Coal, Black Lung, Global Warming, Longwall Mining, Green News
Jeff Biggers

What's the matter with the Democrats in the Midwest and the challenge of coal? Have they turned their backs on the great American pastoral and our de...

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Does the President's "Clean Coal" Glibness Turn American Citizens Into Acceptable Collateral Damage?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Dirty Coal, President Obama, Lung Disease, Clean Coal, Death Rates, Economy, Clean Energy, Heart Disease, Green Energy, Strip Mining, Black Lung, Coal, Illinois, Chicago News
Jeff Biggers

Does Obama's glibness, for whatever reasons of practicality or politics, turn American citizens into acceptable collateral damage in a confounding defense of our nation's dirty energy policy?

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Hechler's Wake Up Call to Greens and Liberals: Big Coal Denial Calls for Hellraisers

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Ken Hechler, Dirty Coal, Cilv Disobedience, Clean Coal, President Barack Obama, Big Coal, Renewable Energy, Social Movements, Mountaintop Removal, Ken Salazar, Lisa Jackson, Direct Action, Green Energy, Black Lung, Coal, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Tragic lessons in history remind us that the coal crisis and its deniers call for more hellraisers, not compromise.

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Hey Sen. Durbin: FutureGen Dogs Bark, Green Caravan Moves On

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Dirty Coal, Steven Chu, Coal, Carol Browner, Green News, Dick Durbin, Renewable Energy, Green Energy, Coal Mining, Black Lung, Clean Coal, Futuregen, Energy, Coal Industry, Dick Durbin FutureGen, Chicago News
Jeff Biggers

While Durbin's eyes are on the prize of "38 billion tons of coal" that sit under our feet in the Illinois coal basin, he is missing the renewable energy revolution that is sweeping the rest of the nation.

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Blago's Symbolic Parting Gift to Dirty Coal: Will Obama Follow?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Epa, Dirty Coal, Carol Browner, Rod Blagojevich, Barack Obama, Dick Durbin, Big Coal, Department of Energy, Black Lung, Clean Coal, Green Jobs, Taylorville, Illinois Clean Coal, Taylorville Coal Plant, Green Stimulus, Chicago News
Jeff Biggers

Impeachment notwithstanding, Gov. Rod Blagojevich signed a bill this week that will send another $18 million down the "clean coal" rabbit hole in Illinois. The delusional symbolism couldn't be more obvious.

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