Technology that is ready to go today can strip the carbon dioxide out of coal for safe underground storage. That's what's being demonstrated in West Virginia today.
Sen. Robert Byrd | Posted 12.04.2009 | Green
The future of coal and indeed of our total energy picture lies in change and innovation. In fact, the future of American industrial power and our economic ability to compete globally depends on our ability to advance energy technology.
Jerry Cope | Posted 12.02.2009 | Green
I think that we have passed the level at which you're going to get effects that we do not want or that we want our children to have to bear.
Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.
Bruce Nilles | Posted 10.30.2009 | Green
Blasting has begun on Coal River Mountain in West Virginia, site of a long battle between Massey Energy and local residents who want it to be a site for wind turbines instead of coal mining.
Carl Pope | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green
Don't even get me started on the issue of the pollution that results from mining coal, or the problems that stem from its mercury and carbon dioxide pollution.
Jennifer Schneider | Posted 10.12.2009 | Denver
Energy-related issues are rarely as simple as political debates make them out to be. The debates over "clean coal" are illustrative.
The New York Times | CLIFFORD KRAUSS | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
For all its pronouncements that gas could be used to replace aging, inefficient coal-fired power plants -- and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the ...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green
IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: California burning; Killing wolves; Recycling the Great Pacific Garbage Patch... PLUS: A Fracture in the Clean Coal Coalit...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green
IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Fires rage across California as Hurricane Jimena bears down on Baja; Lights out for incandescent lightbulbs; The Summer of...
Kevin Grandia | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green
Maddow should be congratulated for keeping on the astroturf story while most of her peers at other major TV outlets have ignored it.
Josh Nelson | Posted 09.27.2009 | Green
Who could have predicted that hiring basically anyone off the street and training them for two hours in a "white-collar sweatshop" would lead to something like this?
James Hoggan | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green
Once again, it's time Washington created a legal requirement for these groups to come clean on their funding.
John DeCock | Posted 09.20.2009 | Green
A prolonged, determined effort is going to be necessary to end the life of King Coal.
Kevin Grandia | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green
Five new forged letters fraudulently sent to Congressmembers have turned up in an ongoing Congressional investigation into the Astroturf campaign laun...
Dave Cooper | Posted 09.17.2009 | Green
The TVA disaster -- over 100 times larger than the 12-million gallon Exxon Valdez spill -- is considered by environmentalists to be the world's worst environmental disaster since Chernobyl.
Kevin George | Posted 09.14.2009 | Green
Bottom line, if your enthusiastic about EVs, this may be your time to plug-in and get involved. Find out for yourself why there's electricity in the air around EVs.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.13.2009 | Green
Tragic lessons in history remind us that the coal crisis and its deniers call for more hellraisers, not compromise.
Josh Dorner | Posted 09.07.2009 | Green
There's considerable evidence that these astroturf corporate lobbying operations are also trying to derail clean energy jobs legislation.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 09.06.2009 | Green
Now available on Apple iTunes! Subscribe for FREE here!... IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: 'Cash for Clunkers' -- now with more cash!; 'Astroturfing' -- no...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 09.04.2009 | Green
Now available on Apple iTunes! Subscribe for FREE here!... IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: The Democracy of Lobbyists; The forgeries of 'Clean Coal'... PLU...
Josh Nelson | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green
A burst of developments Monday considerably raised the profile of the latest attempt by polluting industries to thwart environmental legislation through fraudulent mailings to Congress.
David Roberts | Posted 08.28.2009 | Green
If we don't begin massive investment in renewable power sources, civilization could be at risk before the end of the century. Such is the stark conclusion of Blackout, one of the scariest books I've ever read.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 08.23.2009 | Green
IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Honey, I shrunk the fish!; Off-shore drilling vs. California's budget; "Clean coal" vs. reality; Tourism vs. Safety in Misso...
William S. Becker | Posted 08.20.2009 | Green
It is perverse public policy to tell the nation's principal environmental watchdog it can't do anything about pollutants that have been officially declared a threat to public health and welfare.
Armond Cohen | Posted 12.07.2009 | Green