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RFK Jr.: Some Leaders Fall For Coal's Lies

ABC News | Posted 05.22.2009 | Green

Read More: President Obama, Clean Coal, Coal Industry, Robert Kennedy Jr, Obama Clean Coal Myth, Rfk Jr, Clean Coal Myth, Obama Clean Coal, Barack Obama, Obama Coal Industry, Energy, Green News

"Clean coal is a dirty lie," says environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who calls President Barack Obama and other politicians who commit taxpayer m...

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Clean Coal Lesson or Peril?

Thom Hartmann | Posted 05.11.2009 | Home

Read More: Clean Coal, Carrie Lukas, Thom Hartmann, Home News

Clean Coal - Lesson or Perils? Thom mixes it up with Carrie Lukas on shutting down the coal industry www.iwf.org Thom can be heard daily on his ra...

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Energy Secretary Chu Backs FutureGen 'Clean Coal' Project

AP | Posted 04.30.2009 | Chicago

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

WASHINGTON - U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu says a futuristic coal-burning power plant slated for Illinois that languished under the previous admini...

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Time to Applaud the "New" EPA

Trip Van Noppen | Posted 04.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Epa, Arsenic, Clean Coal, Toxic, Benjamin Cardin, Coal Industry, Lamar Alexander, Environment, Mercury, Coal Ash, President Obama Environment, Lisa Jackson, Pollution, Coal, Stephen Johnson, Toxins, Green News

We've got to make sure that the coal industry's considerable money and influence and the false hope of "clean coal" don't sidetrack government action.

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Busting the Clean Coal Bulls**t

Kevin Grandia | Posted 04.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Clean Coal, Energy, Washington/United States, Green News

"Clean coal" is not an actual invention, a physical thing - it is an advertising slogan. Like "fat-free donuts" or "interest-free loans."

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ATTN Matthew Wald at the NY Times: Does This Look Like "Environment-Friendly" Coal to You?!

Jesse Jenkins | Posted 04.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Economic Stimulus Package, Mountaintop Removal, Clean Coal, Tennessee Coal Ash, Environment, New York Times, Climate Change, Matthew Wald, Coal, Clean Coal Myth, Global Warming, Green News

If we want to truly clean up coal, it's time to start with these three policies, each taking a major step to clean up one stage of the dirty-as-can-be coal life-cycle.

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

Jeff Biggers | Posted 04.13.2009 | 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

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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Congress Digs Up Dirt on Plot to Kill FutureGen Cleaner Coal Project

Dygest.net | Posted 03.12.2009 | Home

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The Bush administration killed plans to build the plant in December 2007, just hours after Mattoon was chosen over two sites in Texas, triggering alle...

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Obama May Revive FutureGen Coal Project, Cost Could Be $2.3B

AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT and HENRY C. JACKSON | Posted 04.11.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Energy, Clean Coal, Alternative Energy, Dick Durbin FutureGen, Futuregen, Futuregen Stimulus Bill, Futuregen Cost, Chicago News

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The price tag for a futuristic coal-burning power plant that President Barack Obama is thinking of reviving seems to still be going...

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Virginia's Choice

Mike Stark | Posted 04.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Terry McAuliffe, Primary, Virginia, Robert Byrd, Carl Lindner, Ted Kennedy, Virginia Governor, Clean Coal, Pollution, Coal, Green News

You simply cannot cozy up to the utterly corrupt coal industry and expect to walk away unsoiled. Terry's conscience should be every bit as darkened as a coal-worker's hands.

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Tennessee Rep: Earthquake Caused TVA Disaster

Dave Cooper | Posted 04.07.2009 | Green

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Knoxville, Tennessee State Representative Frank Nicely is the kind of guy who says what he thinks -- no matter what the facts say.

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Coal Industry Front Group CEO Refuses to Say Whether Burning Coal Causes Global Warming (VIDEO)

Josh Dorner | Posted 04.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Cnn, Clean Coal, Accce, Reality, Abec, Coen Brothers, Al Gore, Sierra Club, Bruce Nilles, Green News

How can an industry that refuses to even acknowledge that it's part of the problem be part of the solution?

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"Clean Coal" Merely a Marketing Ploy to Stop Climate Solutions

Brian Hardwick | Posted 03.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Accce, Clean Coal, Coal, Big Coal, Coal Industry, Green News

Why is the coal industry spending tens of millions of dollars on a marketing campaign trying to convince people they're "clean" rather than actually cleaning up their act?

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Coen Brothers Direct New "Clean Coal" Ad (VIDEO)

Reality Campaign | Posted 03.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Reality Campaign, Video, Clean Coal, Coen Brothers Clean Coal Ad, Coen Brothers, Pollution, Coal, Green Politics, Coen Brothers Clean Coal, Coen Brothers Coal, Clean Coal Coen Brothers, Coen Clean Coal, Clean Coal Commercial, Coen Brothers Coal Ad, Coen Brothers Coal Commercial, Clean Coal Ad, Green News

The Reality Campaign has released a new ad. They're the folks behind the widely-played ad that featured a foreman in a hard hat taking viewers on a to...

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Clean Coal is a Dirty Lie

Steve Fleischli | Posted 03.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Environmental Policy, Clean Coal, Water Pollution, Water, Environment, Coal, Energy Policy, Barack Obama, Global Warming, Green News

Even if carbon capture and sequestration technology existed to remove these emissions, it still wouldn't make coal clean. From cradle to grave, coal is inherently filthy.

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Al Gore Asks Scientists to Take Up Politics

Susan Cosier | Posted 03.26.2009 | Green

Read More: An Inconvenient Truth, Climate Change, Al Gore, Clean Coal, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science, Environmental Policy, Global Warming, Green News

"The solution to this crisis depends on the spread of science into the world of politics," said Al Gore. Now that we have new leadership, we have to make a decision as a species.

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Letter From a Mountaineer to President Obama

Dave Cooper | Posted 03.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Appalachia, Coal Sludge, Environmental Policy, Mountaintop Coal Removal, Clean Coal, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Health, President Obama, Environment, Mountaintop Removal, Pollution, Coal, Green News

During your presidential campaign, you declared: "We have to find more environmentally sound ways of mining coal than simply blowing the tops off mountains." That time is now. Or never.

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Top 5 Myths About Coal

Tara Lohan | Posted 03.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Appalachia, Coal Myths, Mountaintop Removal, Clean Coal, Coal, Mining, Obama Environment, Obama Coal, Green News

The backbone of the "clean coal" rhetoric is based on several layers of lies and misinformation. The first is the idea that there is a technology that we have now to make coal clean.

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Come Home, Dick Durbin: Come Clean on FutureGen

Jeff Biggers | Posted 03.18.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Dirty Coal, Green Jobs, Coal, President Barack Obama, Dick Durbin, Stephen Chu, Peabody Energy, Green Energy, Clean Coal, Futuregen, Energy, Dick Durbin FutureGen, Futuregen Stimulus Bill, Chicago News

As the nation comes to grips with the need to shift our focus to non-fossil fuel sources of energy, it is disappointing to see Sen. Durbin turn into a cheerleader for the "Dirtiest Wing" of the coal industry.

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Court Rules In Favor Of Mountaintop Removal

AP | TIM HUBER | Posted 03.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Pollution, Mountaintop Removal, Coal, Mining, Coal Industry, Clean Coal, Green News

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A federal appeals court overturned a ruling Friday requiring more extensive environmental reviews of mountaintop removal, a ...

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"Clean Coal," Nuclear Spending Removed From Stimulus

Grist | Posted 03.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Economic Stimulus Package, Clean Coal, Green Stimulus, Green Politics, Nuclear Power, Green News

Somebody in the capital must have seen those "Reality" ads where the kindly man in the construction helmet offers a tour of a clean coal facility, onl...

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Evidence Based Policy: What the Energy Component of the Stimulus Package Needs - Not New Nukes!

Gavin D. J. Harper | Posted 03.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Economic Stimulus Package, Clean Coal, Alternative Energy, Nuclear Power, Green Technology, Economic Crisis, Renewable Energy, Jobs, Clean Energy, Nuclear, Obama Economy, Green Energy, Stimulus, Green News

There are stacks of research that clearly demonstrate that for a given unit of energy sourced from renewables more jobs are created -- often by several orders of magnitude.

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"Clean Coal" Myth Suffers Another Defeat

Grist | Posted 03.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Clean Coal, Coal, Green Politics, Clean Coal Myth, Green News

NV Energy, Inc. announced that it is postponing plans to build a "clean coal" plant in eastern Nevada, citing "environmental and economic uncertaintie...

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Obama Vs. Gore? Coal Debate Heats Up (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 03.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Al Gore, Video, Obama vs. Gore, Clean Coal, Green Politics, Energy Policy, Coal, Barack Obama, Green News

Though President Obama's EPA seems to be cautious about coal, the President's own stance remains unclear. During the presidential campaign, he (like h...

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Activists Tout Wind Potential Of Mountain Over "17 Years Of Coal"

The Charleston Gazette | Ken Ward, Jr. | Posted 03.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Clean Coal, Wind Energy, Coal Protest, Activism, West Virginia, Coal River Wind Project, Coal River Mountain, Green Politics, Coal, Green News

"The governor and county legislators have failed to act, so we're acting for them," said one of the activists, Rory McIlmoil, who has led the Coal Riv...

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