Bomb Appalachia (and Face the Music)
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.
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.
Anne Butterfield | Posted 11.09.2009 | Denver
How about a plan to reduce atmospheric CO2 at industrial scale in a safe and economically attractive scheme?
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.
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.
Henry Henderson | Posted 10.22.2009 | Chicago
The EPA is back: it just weighed in on the controversial BP refinery expansion on Lake Michigan and issued an objection to the lax pollution permit that Indiana had lavished on the project.
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 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.
Michael Markarian | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics
It seems that grassroots lobbying is getting a bad rap these days, but that shouldn't discourage animal advocates from being in touch with their members of Congress.
greenbiz.com | Tilde Herrera, July 13, 2009 | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green
The Intermountain Power Agency (IPA) announced Thursday it has given up plans to build an additional coal-fired unit. Its biggest customer -- the city...
Trip Van Noppen | Posted 07.19.2009 | Green
Our goal is clear -- to break their dirty energy monopoly -- and we are making progress. But, as these examples illustrate, the struggle is fierce.
David Sassoon | Posted 06.19.2009 | Green
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.
David Roberts | Posted 06.14.2009 | Green
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.
Rob Perks | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green
This is yet another example of the Obama EPA taking responsible action to return the agency to its core mission -- that of protecting America's natural resources and safeguarding public health.
ABC News | Posted 05.22.2009 | Green
"Clean coal is a dirty lie," says environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who calls President Barack Obama and other politicians who commit taxpayer m...
Trip Van Noppen | Posted 04.30.2009 | Green
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.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 04.13.2009 | Chicago
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.
Brian Hardwick | Posted 03.29.2009 | Green
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?
AP | TIM HUBER | Posted 03.16.2009 | Green
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A federal appeals court overturned a ruling Friday requiring more extensive environmental reviews of mountaintop removal, a ...
Frances Beinecke | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green
While your municipal government does a good job of handling your trash, the Environmental Protection Agency is supposed to protect Americans from hazardous waste. Coal ash fits the bill.
AP | BETH RUCKER | Posted 02.02.2009 | Green
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...
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 01.30.2009 | Green
The online environmental community is abuzz with reports of all kinds about the coal ash sludge spill in Tennessee, ranging from first-hand accounts t...
VBS.tv | Posted 01.29.2009 | Green
A toxic coal ash sludge spill in Tennessee ruined land, homes and lives recently, bringing to the fore an inconvenient truth about coal: it's not clea...
Kevin Grandia | Posted 01.23.2009 | Green
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...
Kevin Grandia | Posted 01.09.2009 | Green
Nothing like a Christmassy marketing campaign from the coal lobby to get you in the holiday spirit.
Kevin Grandia | Posted 12.14.2008 | Green
A decision by the Environmental Protection Agency today has ruled that all new and proposed coal-fired power plants must have their carbon dioxide emissions regulated. Wow.
Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green