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Tennessee Coal Sludge Disaster: Think This Could Not Happen to You? Think Again.

Gillian Caldwell | Posted 02.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Clean Coal, Tennessee Coal Ash, Tennessee Coal Spill, Tennessee, Environment, 1sky, Clean Coal Myth, Tennessee Valley Authority, Coal Sludge Spill, Green News

The Tennessee coal ash spill was a man-made disaster that is directly tied to our reliance on fossil fuels.

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Who Got Coal in Their Stockings?

Carl Pope | Posted 02.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, TVA Spill, TVA Disaster, Dynegy, Coal, Environmental Protection Agency, Clean Coal, Ls Power, Green News

The massive... spill of coal ash at the Kingston Power plant in Tennessee devastated homes, covered hundreds of acres, and threatens rivers, wildlife, and drinking-water sources.

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Tennessee Sludge Spill Community's Future Clouded (SLIDESHOW)

AP | BETH RUCKER | Posted 02.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Clean Coal, Tennesee Coal Spill, Coal Industry, Water, Tennessee Coal Ash, Environment, Pollution, Coal, Green News

HARRIMAN, Tenn. -- Tom Grizzard wonders what the future holds for a spot that once seemed the perfect place to live. His pastoral enclave boasted vist...

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Why TVA Coal Investigation Matters: Interview with Former MSHA Investigator

Jeff Biggers | Posted 01.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Dirty Coal, Appalachia, Clean Coal, Mining, Big Coal, Clean Water, Tennessee, Kentucky, Clean Energy, Department of Energy, Coal Mining, Barack Obama, TVA Coal, Environmental Protection, Tony Oppegard, Green News

When wildfires consume beautiful homes in California, it headlines the evening news. But when thousands of people go without water for weeks in Appalachia, it's not "newsworthy."

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Obama's NSA Advisor Likes: Clean Coal, Nuclear, Long Walks On Beach (With Drilling Apparatus)

Grist | Posted 01.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Green Security, Clean Coal, National Security, NSA Advisor, Nuclear, James L. Jones, Drill Baby Drill, Green News

For a lot of the folks who voted for Barack Obama, promoting "national security" means weaning ourselves from dirty fuel sources. For the man Obama...

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... And Now For Some Good News From TVA

Dave Cooper | Posted 01.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Clean Coal, Sludge, Environment, Coal Ash, Tennessee, Tva, Slurry, Kingston, Harriman, Green News

According to the Tennessee Valley Authority, the 5-story tall mountain of coal waste didn't collapse into the river like a tsunami of sludge -- no, it was "displaced."

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Tennesseans With Sludge-Destroyed Property: "Clean Coal Is A Myth" (VIDEO)

AP | KRISTIN M. HALL | Posted 01.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Tennessee Coal Sludge, Clean Coal, Tennessee Coal Ash, Environment, Pollution, Coal, Video, Sludge Pollution Tennessee, Sludge Video, Green News

KINGSTON, Tenn. -- The CEO and president of the nation's largest public utility vowed to clean up a community encased in sludge after a major coal ash...

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10 Predictions for 2009 That are Really Wishes

Francine Hardaway | Posted 01.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Carbon Tax, Clean Coal, Corporate Sustainability, Alternative Energy, Climate Change, Hybrid Cars, Sustainability, Green News

I'm not so much predicting what will happen in the recycling world as defining what I think might happen, and indeed, HOPE might happen.

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Tennessee Coal Ash Brought Tidings Of Lead, Selenium, Arsenic

New York Times | SHAILA DEWAN | Posted 01.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Coal Ash, Coal Ash Contents, Clean Coal, Coal, Tennessee Coal Ash, Green News

Federal studies have long shown coal ash to contain significant quantities of heavy metals like arsenic, lead and selenium, which can cause cancer and...

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A Lump of Coal in America's Stocking

Lisa Derrick | Posted 01.24.2009 | Home

Read More: TVA Disaster, Tennesse Coal Spill, Environment, Clean Coal, Coal, Home News

The Environmental Protection agency has dispatched one investigator to investigate the nation's largest spill of coal ash. The disaster, spread over 2...

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How Obama Can Improve the World

Jason Pielemeier | Posted 01.24.2009 | World

Read More: South Africa, Human Rights, Barack Obama, Yale, Economic Crisis, Clean Coal, Afghanistan, Renewable Energy, Democracy, Green Energy, Energy Policy, Financial Crisis, Democracy Promotion, Global Warming, Sustainability, World News

Yale World Fellows advise Barack Obama on his first term, with tips on how he can transform the energy economy, advice on Afghanistan, and suggestions for how he can help create a global democracy.

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Ash Christmas: Yesterday's TVA Coal Disaster is Toxic Wake Up Call to Nation

Jeff Biggers | Posted 01.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Carol Browner, Dirty Coal, Clean Coal, Big Coal, Environment, Stephen Chu, Coal Ash, Cancer, TVA Disaster, Barack Obama, Green News

Coal ash contains mercury, lead, and arsenic. Nearly 800 Olympic-size swimming pools of that toxic mix are flowing into the waterways of Tennessee right now.

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Massive Coal Ash Spill in Tennessee puts the lie to Clean Coal

Kevin Grandia | Posted 01.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Tennessee Coal Disaster, Clean Coal, Tennessee Coal Flood, Coal Industry, Toxic Coal Ash, Green News

When it comes to PR spindoctoring there is always one surefire cure - reality. If you were fooled by the multimillion dollar "clean coal" PR marketing...

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Clean Coal the Big Joke

Kevin Grandia | Posted 01.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Funny, Sustainability, Coal News, Clean Coal, Coal, Green News

A little Christmas humor from online personality Rob Cottingham at Social Signal who knows all too well that clean coal is a joke.

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Dear Carol Browner: Dirty Coal Will Turn Green Recovery Gray

Jeff Biggers | Posted 01.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Dirty Coal, Carol Browner, Coal, Mountaintop Removal, Stephen Chu, Big Coal, Climate Change, Barack Obama, Climate Destabilization, Clean Coal, Green Recovery, Futuregen, Green News

The incoming Secretary of Energy will have the choice of committing billions of dollars to relaunch the shipwrecked FutureGen coal-fired plant, or allocating that amount of funding to launch a sustainable wind or solar clean jobs project in the same Illinois area.

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5 Dangerous Green Myths

Treehugger | Matthew McDermott | Posted 01.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Population, Vegetarian, Cfl, Birds, China, Pollution, Vegetarianism, Coal, Soy, Eating Matters, Extinction, Climate Change, Genetically Modified Food, Deforestation, Global Warming, Energy, Population Growth, Clean Coal, Corn, Green Living, Genetically Modified Crops, Food Matters, Local Food, Population Control, Overpopulation, Mining, Genetically Modified, Environment, Food, Wind Turbines, Green News

Can you tell the difference between eco fact and eco fiction? With the green movement growing in momentum, we frequently come across any number of st...

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Joe the Deacon and the Church of Clean Coal Carolers: How to Faith-wash Green-washing

Justin Callaway | Posted 01.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Joe Lucas, Green-Wash, Accce, Lame Duck Express, Clean Coal, Advertising, Greenwashing, Joe the Deacon, Greenwashies, Church of Clean Coal, Coal Carolers, Green-Washing, Pr, America's Power, Faith-Wash, Green News

Forget the ghost-written pontifications of Joe-the-Plumber, meet Joe the Deacon. That's Joe Lucas, the VP of Communications at the ACCCE, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Energy.

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"Clean Coal Carolers" Killed By Rachel Maddow, Good Taste (VIDEO)

Think Progress/HuffPost | Posted 01.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Video, Clean Coal, Christmas, Rachel Maddow, Environment, Are You Serious, Green News

Via ThinkProgress Wednesday, ThinkProgress reported on a holiday campaign by the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), a coal indus...

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Obama's Global Challenge

Marco Trbovich | Posted 01.11.2009 | Green

America's energy future is a goods news, bad news joke. The good news is that America has enough domestic resources to meet its energy needs. The bad news is, the resource is coal.

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Coal's Sacriligeous Caroling

A. Siegel | Posted 01.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Accce, Truthiness, Clean Coal, Satire, Climate Change, Emissions, Pollution, Coal, Global Warming, Astroturfing, Green News

I was shocked at the latest parody of a set of Christmas Carols courtesy of the coal industry's mouthpiece, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity: the "Clean Coal Carolers" with a set of lyrics that take their truthiness and deception to a whole new level of depravity.

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Clean Coal Reality Ads (VIDEO)

Adweek | Posted 01.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Reality Coalition, Crispin Porter Bogusky, Clean Coal, Mining, Climate Change, Environment, Coal, Global Warming, Green News

The American public heard a lot about "clean coal" during the election this year, but a new campaign from the Reality Coalition argues it simply doesn...

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Give the Gift of Asthma and a Warmer Planet this Christmas

Kevin Grandia | Posted 01.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Accce, Clean Coal, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Global Warming, Coal Industry, Green News

Nothing like a Christmassy marketing campaign from the coal lobby to get you in the holiday spirit.

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"This Is Reality" Takes On the Clean Coal Lie

Jake Brewer | Posted 01.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Nrdc, Obama Clean Coal, Karl Pope, Al Gore, Clean Coal, Big Coal, This Is Reality, Mccain Clean Coal, Sierra Club, Alliance for Climate Protection, Nwf, Green News

Big Coal has spent more than Tobacco did making us think cigarettes were ok, to make us believe the "Saudi Arabia of coal" - the United States - will lead a clean, prosperous future.

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'Clean Coal' Salesman Joe Lucas Shucks and Jives for NPR

David Roberts | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Energy, Npr, Accce, Al Gore, Clean Coal, Coal, Politics News

grist.orgThis NPR story on "clean coal" is astounding. Pardon the long post, but I had to transcribe several parts of it so you wouldn't think I'm ma...

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Gore's "Reality Coalition" Fighting "Clean Coal"

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 01.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Clean Coal, Al Gore Clean Coal, Al Gore, Gore Clean Coal, Alliance for Climate Protection, Clean Coal Myth, Politics News

Today, Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection, League of Conservation Voters, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council and S...

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