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Call in the HERO @ #COP15

Alexia Parks | Posted 12.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Net Zero, Carbon Tax, Carbon Emissions, Copenhagen 2009, New Zealand, Norway, Coal, Barack Obama, Costa Rica, Green News

All hope is not lost in Copenhagen. The rudderless ship needs some direction though. Who better to provide that than leader of the free world?

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The Importance of Copenhagen and EPA's Endangerment Finding

Bruce Nilles | Posted 12.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Copenhagen, Environment, Copenhagen 2009, Coal, cop15, Sierra Club, Kyoto Protocol, Green News

adding a great push to our efforts in Copenhagen is the announcement from the EPA earlier this week: that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases constitute a danger to public health.

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300 Clean Water Act Violations! Illinois Citizens File Notice to Sue Reckless Coal Strip Mine

Jeff Biggers | Posted 12.11.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Springfield, Pat Quinn, Sierra Club, Dirty Coal, Prairie River Network, Chicago, Clean Water Act, Epa, Strip Mine, Big Coal, Endangered Species, Illinois, Coal, Chicago News

How did discharges of illegal levels of pollutants, including manganese, total suspended solids, sulfates, iron, and acidic water wind up in some of the last old growth forest in Illinois?

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Governor Ritter REDI-ing to Retire Coal Plants

Jeremy Nichols | Posted 12.10.2009 | Denver

Read More: Oil and Gas Drilling, Governor Ritter, Oil and Gas Leasing, Copenhagen 2009, Greenhouse Gases, Comanche 3, Renewable Energy, Climate Change, Aerial-Gunning, Wildearth Guardians, Coal, Global Warming, Wildlife, Colorado, Denver News

All the renewable energy in the world can't and won't make up for the fact that unless Colorado starts cutting back on coal burning, greenhouse gases are going to keep climbing.

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Coal and Copenhagen

Armond Cohen | Posted 12.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Copenhagen, Climate Change, Copenhagen 2009, Global Warming, Clean Coal, Coal, Green News

Technology that is ready to go today can strip the carbon dioxide out of coal for safe underground storage. That's what's being demonstrated in West Virginia today.

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Coal Must Embrace the Future

Sen. Robert Byrd | Posted 12.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Dirty Coal, Carbon Emissions, Clean Coal, Big Coal, Climate Change, Coal, Global Warming, Green News

The future of coal and indeed of our total energy picture lies in change and innovation. In fact, the future of American industrial power and our economic ability to compete globally depends on our ability to advance energy technology.

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The Big Mugging: Xcel's Top Guns Will Defend the Indefensible Thursday

Anne Butterfield | Posted 12.02.2009 | Denver

Read More: Coal Power, Xcel Energy, Wind Source, Pueblo-Colorado, Coal, ECA, Comanche 3, Denver News

Xcel Energy will bring out their top guns to argue in support of their proposed rate increase that will increase our base rates in Colorado to pay for the new 750MW coal plant in Pueblo.

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In the Name of Rosa Parks: Arrest of 81-Year-Old on Fast, Mourning Mountaintop Removal

Jeff Biggers | Posted 12.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Appalachia, Dirty Coal, Human Rights, White House, Green Jobs, Civil Rights, President Obama, Mountaintop Removal, cop15, Rosa Park, Coal, Christmas Tree, Al Gore, Green News

On the anniversary of Rosa Parks' historic act of civil disobedience, an 81-year-old veteran and anti-mountaintop removal activist was arrested by law enforcement authorities.

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Salazar's Dirty Energy Disgrace

Jeremy Nichols | Posted 12.01.2009 | Denver

Read More: Powder River Basin, Copenhagen 2009, Greenhouse Gases, Department of Interior, Climate Change, Wyoming, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Ken Salazar, Coal Mining, Coal, Barack Obama, Global Warming, Denver News

Here's an international embarrassment waiting to happen. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is not only planning to tag along with Obama in Copenhagen, he's going to be a keynote speaker.

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Whose Ridiculous Publicity Stunt Is It, Anyway?

Jeremy Nichols | Posted 11.24.2009 | Denver

Read More: Xcel Energy, Governor Ritter, Greenhouse Gases, Climate Change, Comanche 3, Renewable Energy, Colorado, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Denver, Coal, Wildearth Guardians, Global Warming, Denver News

A demonstration called on Governor Ritter to stop clowning around when it comes to confronting global warming. Greenhouse gas emissions are actually on the rise in Colorado thanks to Xcel Energy.

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Over-exposed To Coal: Colorado Could Maim Its Economy

Anne Butterfield | Posted 11.23.2009 | Denver

Read More: Xcel Energy, Tom Sanzillo, Coal Mining, Alternative Energy, Coal, Solar Power, Comanche 3, Denver News

Of Colorado's power generation, 70 percent comes from one fuel type: coal, which the United States Geological Survey has estimated will stop being cheap in as little as two decades.

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Energy Bill: Colorado Legislators Ask Congress To Limit Funding For Nuclear, Coal

AP | Posted 11.18.2009 | Denver

Read More: Energy Bill, Coal, Nuclear Energy Colorado, Colorado Coal, COlorado Legsilators Energy Bill, Denver News

DENVER — Colorado state lawmakers are asking the U.S. Senate to limit funding for coal and nuclear energy as Congress moves to pass an energy bi...

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Mark Udall, Michael Bennet Sign Letter Supporting Exemptions In Cap And Trade For Coal

The Colorado Independent | John Tomasic | Posted 11.17.2009 | Denver

Read More: Michael Bennet, Mark Udall, Cap and Trade, Herb Kohl, Amy Klobuchar, Coal, Waxman-Markey, Al Franken, Denver News

Colorado U.S. Sens Mark Udall and Michael Bennet with 12 other Senate Democrats signed onto a letter urging Senate leaders weighing climate legislatio...

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Carbon Management: A Call to Action for the U.S. and China

Scott Daniels | Posted 11.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Capture and Storage, Ccs, Obama China, Copenhagen 2009, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Coal, China, Global Warming, Green News

As President Obama prepares to set foot on Chinese soil for the first time today, the United States and China, the globe's leading greenhouse gas producers, are engaged in a classic standoff.

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Big Stone II - Stopping the Unstoppable Coal Fired Power Plant

John DeCock | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Sierra Club, Minnesota, Water, Mercury, Clean-Water-Action, Climate Change, Coal, South Dakota, Coal-Fired Plants, Green News

Change is inevitable, and the time for new coal fired power plants has passed.

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Bomb Appalachia (and Face the Music)

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Clearcutting, Coal, Center for Public Integrity, West Virginia, Campaign, Coal Industry, Climate, Grassroots, Coal River Mountain, Climate Change, Virginia, Coal Lobby, Mountaintop Removal, Unions, Environmentalism, JP Morgan Chase, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Wto, Mother Jones, Labor, Clean Energy, Congress, Green, Global Warming, Government, Mountains, Epa, Harlan County, Mines, Bush Administration, Blair Mountain, Tennessee, Climate Action Partnership, President Obama, Washington, Obama, Coal Czar, Bush, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Naacp, Appalachia, Workers, Climate Justice, Office of Surface Mining, Civil Disobedience, Kentucky, Henry Waxman, Forests, Department of the Interior, Dirty Coal, Green Jobs, Wall Street, Astroturfing, Coal Mining, Duke Energy, Green News, Mining, Water, Clean Coal, Osr, Appalachian Mountains, Activism, Protest, Massey Energy, Green News

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.

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Urge the Obama Administration to Save Coal River Mountain

Rob Perks | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Appalachia, Wind, Coal, Dirty Coal, West Virginia, Mountain Top Mining, Coal River, Mountain Top Removal, Wind Farm, Coal River Mountain, Green News

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.

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Coal Plants Creating Landfills In Order To Clean The Air

AP | DUNCAN MANSFIELD | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Landfills, Coal, Tva, Tennessee, Green News

KINGSTON, Tenn. — Smokestack scrubbers will eliminate most of the sulfur emissions from the coal-fired Kingston Fossil Plant, but they will also...

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Dominican Republic Town's Birth Defects Caused By US Coal Company

miamiherald.com | By FRANCES ROBLES | Posted 11.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Dominican Republic, Dirty Coal, Birth Defects, Coal, Toxic Waste Dumping, Pollution, Green News

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...

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Thimerosol in Flu Vaccines? America's Mercury Habit is Nothing New

Peter Christian Hall | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Autism Thimerosal, Swine Flu Vaccine, Vitamin D Deficiency, Autism Vaccine Mercury, Vitamin D, Merthiolate, Mercurochrome, Mercury, Autism, Mercury Poisoning, Coal, Thimerosol, Living News

By some views, it's just as possible that sunscreen -- and sun avoidance -- is causing far more harm than mercury ever did.

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The Good, Bad, and Ugly: A Look Back at the Drama Over the EPW Bill

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!

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Exposed: The Worldwide Efforts Of The Global Energy Lobby To Kill Progress On Climate Change

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy Lobby, Copenhagen 2009, cop15, Greenhouse Gases, Brazil, Killing Climate Bill, Climate Change, Climate Legislation, Lobbyblog, Coal, Global Warming, Coal Lobby, Green News

The Center For Public Integrity just released a blockbuster investigative report that details the intense corporate pressure to block an effective glo...

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Al Gore Explains How Call For Climate Change Action Is Similar To Civil Rights Movement (Video)

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...

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The True Impact of Coal Mining

Bruce Nilles | Posted 10.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Coal, Powder River Basin, Mining, Dirty Coal, Coal River Mountain, Sierra Club, Clean Coal, Green News

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.

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Kentucky Straight: Students Call Out Trustees Big Coal Pander in Growing UKY Wildcat Scandal

Jeff Biggers | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Dirty Coal, Rachel Maddow, Kentucky, Mountaintop Removal, University of Kentucky, Coal, Students, Wildcat Basketball, Green News

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.

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