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Tom Friedman: Climate Bill Is The First Step Towards Change

nytimes.com | THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, Farmers, President Obama, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Obama Climate Change, Democrats, Coal, Carbom Emissions, Global Warming, Climate Bill, Republicans, Green News

Rejecting this bill would have been read in the world as America voting against the reality and urgency of climate change and would have undermined cl...

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Pooping Where You Sleep: Bad for the Economy

David Roberts | Posted 07.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Science, Economy, Environmental Practices, Green Economy, Coal, Green News
David Roberts

Time and time again, an environment-degrading practice often defended as necessary to economic health is revealed, upon closer inspection, to be uneconomic.

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The Human Toll of Fossil Fuel Use

Dennis Markatos | Posted 07.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Renewable Energy, Oil, Wind Power, Climate Change, Natural Gas, Coal, Solar Power, Green News
Dennis Markatos

Reduced emissions are not the only benefit to renewable energy. Another stark difference between fossil energy and renewable energy is the risk to workers close to the fuel from the mine to the point of use.

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Top 10 List: Why President Obama Must Visit Appalachia and Launch War for Green Jobs

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Appalachia, Lisa Jackson, Poverty, Van Jones, Barack Obama, Green Jobs, Epa, Nancy Sutley, Mountaintop Removal, Coal, Dailykos, Green News
Jeff Biggers

It is almost beyond belief that President Obama, CEQ chief Nancy Sutley and EPA head Lisa Jackson have made no attempt to visit actual mining sites under their jurisdiction.

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The Simple Arithmetic of Global Warming Supports the Economics of a Climate Change Bill

David Fiderer | Posted 07.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Emissions, Clean Coal, Greenhouse Gases, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Natural Gas, Climate Crisis, Coal, Global Warming, China, Climate Bill, Green News
David Fiderer

One of the great ironies of our age is that skepticism of global warming is treated with greater respect than, say, Holocaust denial.

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Green News Report - June 25, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 07.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Supreme Court, House of Representatives, Fema, Big Three Automakers, Mountaintop Removal, United Nations, Waxman-Markey, Green News, Hurricane Katrina, Climate Change, Green News Report, Pollution, Coal, Darryl Hannah, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

Darryl Hannah arrested (no, not for public intoxication); Floor fight pending over climate change; Big Three automakers ignored their own consumer research ... The Supreme Court kills a lake.

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Secrets and the White House

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Secrecy, Obama White House, Mountaintop Removal, Coal, CREW Lawsuit, Epa, Politics News
Christopher Brauchli

Those with long memories will recall the endless fights over the White House Logs during the eight years of the Bush presidency.

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From the Senate to the WV Coalfields, a Pivotal Week for Mountaintop Removal

Bruce Nilles | Posted 07.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Mtr, Sierra Club, Coal, Mountaintop Removal, Big Coal, Green News
Bruce Nilles

This has been a game-changing week in the fight to end mountaintop removal. We will undoubtedly look back on the events of the past few days as a turning point in the struggle to end this incredibly destructive form of coal mining.

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Historic Senate Hearings on Clean Water Protection Act Today: We All Live Downstream

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Ken Hechler, Maria Gunnoe, Us Sen. Benjamin Carden, Dirty Coal, Clean Water Protection Act, West Virginia, Kentucky, Mountaintop Removal, Senator Robert Byrd, Goldman Prize, Coal, Clean Water Act, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Over 1,300 miles of streams have been sullied and jammed by mountaintop removal operations. Over 500 mountains have been blown to bits.

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Arrested in West Virginia -- A First-Person Account

Michael Brune | Posted 07.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Green Jobs, Don Blankenship, Civil Disobedience, Mountaintop Removal, Massey Energy Company, Dr. James Hansen, Coal River Wind Project, Coal River Mountain, Clean Energy Economy, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Coal, Green News
Michael Brune

Appalachia -- one of the few places in the country where both the cause of climate change and its solution can be found in the same location. Mountaintop removal isn't just a local issue, it's an American problem.

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Updated:VIDEO: Nonviolent Goldman Prize Winner Attacked by Massey Supporter: 94-Year-Old Hechler, Hannah, Hansen Arrested at Coal River

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Appalachia, Lisa Jackson, Dirty Coal, Barack Obama, Epa, Ken Hechler, Mountaintop Removal, Daryl Hannah, James Hansen, Coal, Daryl Hannah Arrested, Daryl Hannah Coal River, Daryl Hannah Arrest, Daryl Hannah Arrested in West Viginia, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Daryl Hannah, NASA's celebrated climate scientist James Hansen, and 94-year-old Ken Hechler, the legendary congressman and coal miner hero were arrested in a non-violent protest in West Virginia.

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West Virginia: The New Cleveland?

Dave Cooper | Posted 07.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Kinetic Park, Cleveland, Mountaintop Removal, Rahall, Pittsburgh, Coal, Strip Mining, Cuyahoga, Manchin, Green News
Dave Cooper

Gov. Manchin, along with southern West Virginia congressman Nick Joe Rahall, are ardent and strident supporters of the destruction of their state.

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Reckoning at Coal River: Media and Nation Must Bear Witness to Coalfield Tragedy This Week

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Lisa Jackson, Massey Energy, Smcra, Barack Obama, Carol Browner, Epa, Ken Hechler, Nancy Sutley, Coal River Mountain, Mountaintop Removal, Al Gore, Darryl Hannah, James Hansen, Coal, Benjamin Carden, Green News
Jeff Biggers

The human rights and constitutional violations of American citizens besieged by ruthless outside coal companies will be on full display this week to the national media and the nation.

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Coal Ash Sites Kept Secret, While Industry Works to Prevent Regulations

Bruce Nilles | Posted 07.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Coal, Tva, Sierra Club, Coal Ash, Clean Coal, Tennessee, Green News
Bruce Nilles

If you lived near a dump site where the hazardous waste was so toxic it could increase your cancer risk to as high as a staggering 1 in 50, wouldn't you want to know about it?

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Bobby Kennedy, Jr.: "Family Friends" Are "Endorsing Criminal Behavior" (Video)

Alex Pasternack | Posted 07.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Jay Rockefeller, Robert Byrd, Climate Change, Clean Coal, Coal, Bobby Kennedy, West Virginia, Green News
Alex Pasternack

Coal companies would not exist if not for the "corruption" of politicians, Bobby Kennedy, Jr. told me, singling out "family friends of ours forever," like West Virginia Democrats Jay Rockefeller and Robert Byrd.

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Colbert Interviews Duke Energy CEO, Says Clean Coal Is "Oxymoron" (VIDEO)

Colbert Report | Posted 07.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Video, Clean Coal, Duke Energy, Environment, Stephen Colbert, Pollution, Coal, Jim Rogers, Green News

Some would say that the term "clean coal" belongs no place more than on a comedy show. To that end, here is a delightfully awkward bit of television ...

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Update on Today's Daring Dragline Protest, Launches 7 Days That Will Shake Mountaintop Removal Operations

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Appalachia, Coal River, Dirty Coal, Judy Bonds, Ken Hchler, Ran, James Hansen, Mountaintop Removal, Coal, Darryl Hannah, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Four daring protesters accomplished something today that no high ranking member in the Obama administration has ever bothered to do.

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Clean Coal: Fuel of the Future or a Fallacy?

John Gartner | Posted 07.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Capture and Storage, Clean Coal, Clean Energy, Coal, Green News
John Gartner

The government will spend more than $1 billion on research on a prototype coal power plant that will capture and sequester the CO2 produced.

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Clean Coal Knee-Capping: Secretary Chu Makes $1 Billion Down Payment For More Dirty Coal

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Department of Energy, Dirty Coal, Clean Coal, Carol Browner, Steven Chu, Futuregen, Coal, Green News
Jeff Biggers

A lot of hot air has been emitted on the dangerous oxymoron of "clean coal. The truth is that carbon capture and storage technology is still in its experimental phase

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The Best Judge $3 Million Can Buy

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Coal, Don Blankenship, Matt Lauer, The Appeal, Judges, West Virginia, John Grisham, Today Show, Scalia, Alito, Roberts, Thomas, Politics News
Blake Fleetwood

The US Supreme Court ruling earlier this week gives a scary look at how justice in America is routinely bought and sold.

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We Are Here For Your Protection

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Clean Coal, Coal, Tennessee Valley Authority, Tennessee Coal Spill, Department of Homeland Security, Kingston Fossil, Senator Barbara Boxer, Coal Ash Spill, Coal Ash Dumps, Politics News
Allison Kilkenny

Saying something is for the "protection" of the American people is usually code for "covering our own asses." The recent coal ash spill in Tennessee was 100 times worse than the Exxon-Valdez spill.

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Mixed Bag on MTR Coal Mining Decision From Obama Administration

Bruce Nilles | Posted 07.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Mtr, Coal, Sierra Club, Obama Administration, Appalachia, Clean Water Act, Green News
Bruce Nilles

If the Obama administration allows hundreds of mountaintop-removal coal mining permits to go forward, it will result in the outright destruction of hundreds of miles of streams and forests in Appalachia.

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UPDATE: Coalfield Advocates Respond to Mountaintop Removal Crimes and Misdemeanors

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Dirty Coal, President Jimmy Carter, Mountaintop Removal, Crime, President Barack Obama, Department of Interior, Vice President Al Gore, Lisa Jackson, Ceq, Coal, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Failed mining policy has destroyed our nation's natural heritage, ripped out the roots of the Appalachian culture, and left historic mountain communities in poverty and ruin. And now Obama only wants to "regulate" it.

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West Virginia Supreme Court Chooses Coal Over Children

Josh Nelson | Posted 07.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Massey Energy, Coal, Coal Slurry, West Virginia, Coal Sludge, Massey Energy Company, Clean Energy, Marsh Fork Elementary, Global Warming, Green Energy, Energy, Climate Change, Green News
Josh Nelson

West Virginia loves coal. That became painfully obvious last week when the state's Democratic governor signed a resolution making the dirtiest rock on the planet the official state rock.

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Government Report: US Emissions Projected to Tank ~3.5% in '09

Dennis Markatos | Posted 07.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Climate Change, Carbon Dioxide, Oil, Eia, Us, Coal, Global Warming, Recession, Natural Gas, Green News
Dennis Markatos

The US Energy Information Agency has further lowered its emissions projection for '09, due to lower coal consumption based on a drop in demand for fuel and the substitution of coal for natural gas.

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