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Change is inevitable, and the time for new coal fired power plants has passed.
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.
Rob Perks | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
Rising above a picturesque valley in southern West Virginia, Coal River Mountain represents the last, best hope for a community resisting the legacy of dirty energy in this part of Appalachia.
AP | DUNCAN MANSFIELD | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
KINGSTON, Tenn. — Smokestack scrubbers will eliminate most of the sulfur emissions from the coal-fired Kingston Fossil Plant, but they will also...
miamiherald.com | By FRANCES ROBLES | Posted 11.06.2009 | Green
A civil lawsuit filed Wednesday in Delaware charges that toxic levels of waste dumped at the Arroyo Barril port has made people nearby sick. After yea...
Peter Christian Hall | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living
By some views, it's just as possible that sunscreen -- and sun avoidance -- is causing far more harm than mercury ever did.
Gillian Caldwell | Posted 11.06.2009 | Green
In the past week, a drama unfolded around the Senate EPW Committee hearings for the new Senate bill on climate and clean energy jobs. Declarations! Boycott threats! Power plays!
Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green
The Center For Public Integrity just released a blockbuster investigative report that details the intense corporate pressure to block an effective glo...
The Huffington Post | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green
The push for government action on climate change is like the US civil rights movement, according to former Vice President Al Gore. Both causes depende...
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.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green
The scandalous University of Kentucky Trustees may have voted to approve rebuilding and renaming the beloved Joe B. Hall Wildcat Lodge as the Wildcat Coal Lodge, but the public relations nightmare has just begun.
Posted 10.28.2009 | Green
This afternoon, the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees voted 16-3 to approve the proposal for the new dorm, which will be named the "Wildcat Coa...
Anne Butterfield | Posted 10.28.2009 | Denver
Despite a new wind turbine in Boulder, the elephant in the middle of the New Energy Economy is Comanche 3, the 750 megawatt coal plant in Colorado coming online as soon as next month.
Rob Perks | Posted 10.27.2009 | Green
A new study found coal to be the costliest of all fossil fuels -- to the tune of $62 billion a year. Indeed, the damage caused by the nation's 406 coal-fired plants is far worse than any other energy source.
Jeremy Nichols | Posted 10.27.2009 | Denver
The Colorado Air Pollution Control Division rejected calls to keep CO2 emission in check at the Valmont coal-fired power plant in Boulder. Are there any limits on carbon in Colorado?
Jeff Biggers | Posted 10.27.2009 | Chicago
The Chicago activists called attention to the deadly life cycle of coal mining and coal burning -- including the burning of coal strip-mined from mountaintop removal operations in Appalachia.
Gloria Reuben | Posted 10.27.2009 | Impact
Big coal has busted up the unions, impoverished communities, and lined the pockets of state politicians and judges. It's time for this to stop.
Matt Wasson | Posted 10.24.2009 | Green
The fate of Coal River Mountain is America's energy future. If the coal companies can mine there, they can do anything they want.
Bruce Nilles | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green
This week's post was co-written by Mary Anne Hitt, deputy director of the Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign"My hope is this superb documentary will sho...
Jeff Biggers | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books
In the end, unfolding like a chilling and disturbing thriller, Climate Cover-Up is about one of the greatest campaigns of misinformation in our time.
Huffington Post | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green
Thursday night on the Colbert Report, Stephen weighed in on the allegations that Bonner and Associates, a lobby group for the coal industry had sent f...
Michael Kieschnick | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green
Saudi Arabia has been lobbying to gain financial compensation if a treaty passes that reduces world dependence on oil. is that so different from what the coal industry has done in Washington, D.C.?
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.
John DeCock | Posted 10.15.2009 | Green
Perhaps the biggest challenge in changing human behavior to address the reality of climate change is connecting impacts to every day life. But t...
Jeff Biggers | Posted 10.08.2009 | Green
Given the irreparable damage of his mining record, Pizarchik's entrenched support of the coal industry suggests that the OSM would continue its decades-old tradition of lawlessness and betrayal of coalfield residents.
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John DeCock | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green