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Carbon Capture a Pipe Dream

Blaise Zerega | Posted 08.10.2009 | Green

Read More: fora.tv, Michael Pollan, Clean Coal, Fossil Fuels, Alternative Energy, Steven Chu, Agriculture, Blaise Zerega, Futuregen, Clean Energy, Coal, Australia, Climate Change, Australia Climate Change, Green News

There's much to love about carbon capture, in theory. But carbon capture continues our dependence on coal-fired power plants, and does little to change the status quo.

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Urgent July 4th Declaration: Bo Webb to Al Gore: Stand with Me at Ground Zero for Climate Change

Jeff Biggers | Posted 08.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Dirty Coal, Carol Browner, Carbon Emissions, Clean Coal, Climate Change, President Barack Obama, Al Gore, Aces, Lisa Jackson, Nancy Sutley, Coal, Green News

If we are to be serious about addressing the "inconvenient truth," then banning mountaintop removal is a logical and required first step in capturing carbon and saving our forests.

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Why I Was Arrested in Coal River, West Virginia

Daryl Hannah | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Energy, Daryl Hannah Arrested, Celebrities Talk Politics, Clean Coal, West Virginia, Mountain Top Removal, Daryl Hannah, Coal, Green News

Why would I fly across the country on my own dime knowing I would most likely end up in jail in one of the poorest parts of America? Well, have you ever heard of MTR?

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The Simple Arithmetic of Global Warming Supports the Economics of a Climate Change Bill

David Fiderer | Posted 07.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Emissions, Clean Coal, Greenhouse Gases, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Natural Gas, Climate Crisis, Coal, Global Warming, China, Climate Bill, Green News

One of the great ironies of our age is that skepticism of global warming is treated with greater respect than, say, Holocaust denial.

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FutureGen 'Clean' Coal Plant Loses 2 Financial Backers

AP | DAVID MERCER | Posted 07.26.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Energy. @Espn, Alternative Energy, Clean Coal, Futuregen Coal Plant, Futuregen, American Electric Power Company, Southern Company, Futuregen Alliance, Futuregen Funding, Chicago News

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Just two weeks after the federal government revived plans to build the FutureGen power plant in eastern Illinois, two of the e...

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Coal Ash Sites Kept Secret, While Industry Works to Prevent Regulations

Bruce Nilles | Posted 07.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Coal, Tva, Sierra Club, Coal Ash, Clean Coal, Tennessee, Green News

If you lived near a dump site where the hazardous waste was so toxic it could increase your cancer risk to as high as a staggering 1 in 50, wouldn't you want to know about it?

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Bobby Kennedy, Jr.: "Family Friends" Are "Endorsing Criminal Behavior" (Video)

Alex Pasternack | Posted 07.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Jay Rockefeller, Robert Byrd, Climate Change, Clean Coal, Coal, Bobby Kennedy, West Virginia, Green News

Coal companies would not exist if not for the "corruption" of politicians, Bobby Kennedy, Jr. told me, singling out "family friends of ours forever," like West Virginia Democrats Jay Rockefeller and Robert Byrd.

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Colbert Interviews Duke Energy CEO, Says Clean Coal Is "Oxymoron" (VIDEO)

Colbert Report | Posted 07.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Video, Clean Coal, Duke Energy, Environment, Stephen Colbert, Pollution, Coal, Jim Rogers, Green News

Some would say that the term "clean coal" belongs no place more than on a comedy show. To that end, here is a delightfully awkward bit of television ...

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Big Coal Using Climate Change Bill To Roll Back Clean Air Act

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Clean Air Act, Repealing Clean Air Act, Climate Change, Global Warming, Coal Industry Clean Air Act, Clean Coal, Transparency, Politics News

A climate change compromise that erodes provisions of the Clean Air Act has supporters worried Democrats are being too generous to coal companies and ...

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Clean Coal: Fuel of the Future or a Fallacy?

John Gartner | Posted 07.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Capture and Storage, Clean Coal, Clean Energy, Coal, Green News

The government will spend more than $1 billion on research on a prototype coal power plant that will capture and sequester the CO2 produced.

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Clean Coal Knee-Capping: Secretary Chu Makes $1 Billion Down Payment For More Dirty Coal

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Department of Energy, Dirty Coal, Clean Coal, Carol Browner, Steven Chu, Futuregen, Coal, Green News

A lot of hot air has been emitted on the dangerous oxymoron of "clean coal. The truth is that carbon capture and storage technology is still in its experimental phase

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We Are Here For Your Protection

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Clean Coal, Coal, Tennessee Valley Authority, Tennessee Coal Spill, Department of Homeland Security, Kingston Fossil, Senator Barbara Boxer, Coal Ash Spill, Coal Ash Dumps, Politics News

Saying something is for the "protection" of the American people is usually code for "covering our own asses." The recent coal ash spill in Tennessee was 100 times worse than the Exxon-Valdez spill.

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FutureGen Coal Plant Gets Green Light From Energy Secretary

AP | HENRY C. JACKSON | Posted 07.13.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Energy, Clean Coal, Alternative Energy, Futuregen, Futuregen Coal Plant, Steven Chu, Chicago News

WASHINGTON — The Energy Department is moving forward on a futuristic coal-burning power plant in Illinois that the Bush administration had decla...

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Clean the Dirty Energy Bills

Marcy Winograd | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Dirty Coal, Clean Energy, Clean Coal, Atomic-Radiation, Nuclear Power, Energy, Green News

The dirty little secret is that these not-so-clean energy bills would also provide financing for a new generation of commercial nuclear power plants.

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The Growing Grassroots Movement Against Coal

Bruce Nilles | Posted 07.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Sierra Club, Clean Coal, Coal, Grassroots, Green News

Everyday we see signs of the growing grassroots movement for clean energy in the U.S. Americans are not just demanding that we switch from coal to clean energy, they're getting together to take action on a local and national scale.

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Climate Bill Earmarks $500M for Clean Coal 'Admin Expenses'

David Sassoon | Posted 07.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Earmarks, Clean Coal, National Carbon Capture Center, Rick Boucher, Waxman-Markey, Joe Barton, Carbon Storage Research Corporation, Light Switch Tax, Ccs, John Shimkus, Epri, Green Energy, Green News

Republican opponents of climate legislation told the public that a cap-and-trade bill would impose a "light switch tax." It was a witty and effective slogan used to scare voters.

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Ad Firm Behind "Clean Coal" Marketing Plan Releases Brag Sheet

Kevin Grandia | Posted 07.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Accce, R&r Advertising - Public Relations - Government Affairs, Clean Coal, Green News

A tight knit group of major coal players are all working together with their ad firms and spindoctors to convince us that clean coal (like fat-free doughnuts) actually exists.

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Coal Industry Loophole One Step Closer to Being Closed

Bruce Nilles | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Epa, Coal, Ohio State University, Clean Energy Sierra Club, Ohio, Clean Coal, Energy, Massy, Osu, Politics News

The coal industry uses a loophole in which they get to store billions of gallons of highly hazardous waste in a less responsible manner than household waste has to be treated.

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Clean Energy Climate Bill Gives Coal a Competitive Future

David Sassoon | Posted 06.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Capture and Storage, Ccs, Rick Boucher, Waxman-Markey, Energy, Clean Coal, Coal Industry, Green Energy, Barack Obama, Green News

The state legislature, under the influence of the utility lobby, is turning a blind eye to the survival strategy of a dinosaur responsible for close to half of the CO2 emissions in the state.

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US Makes $2.4 Billion Bet On Clean Coal In Stimulus Package

AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 06.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Obama Clean Coal, Clean Coal, Climate Change, Obama Administration, Green Energy, Green News

WASHINGTON — Energy Secretary Steven Chu says he will provide $2.4 billion from the economic recovery package to speed up development of technol...

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Debate: Roberts v. 'Clean Coal' Flack Joe Lucas

David Roberts | Posted 06.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Accce, Clean Coal, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Big Coal, Coal Industry, Tennessee Coal Ash, Renewable Energy, Coal, America's Power, Dirty Coal, Joe Lucas, Mountaintop Removal, Tennessee Coal Spill, Coal Ash, Spin, Climate Change, Coal Mining, Green News

There was an online debate between me and Joe Lucas, spokesflack for the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity. When he received my questions, he ran off like a pansy.

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They Are Trying to Steal Your Future

Carl Pope | Posted 06.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Clean Coal, Coal, Big Coal, Waxman-Markey, Peabody Coal, Green News

Oil and coal are not about to let clean energy get to market without a fight. And Congress is so used to thinking of energy policy in terms of which regions produce which fuels that they are getting a hearing.

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Dirty Energy and Dirty Money are Poisoning American Politics

Josh Nelson | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Coal, Stop Fake Reform, Clean Coal, Lobbying, Terry McAuliffe, Green, Green Energy, Dscc, Global Warming, Terry Mcauliffe Virginia Governor, Climate Change, Virginia, Politics, Dccc, Miles Grant, Change Congress, Energy, Dominon, Va-47, Politics News

The American people can see through the shell game the DSCC is playing. One day of doing the right thing does little to make up for 364 days of being beholden to specials interests.

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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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