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University Of Kentucky Adds "Coal" To The New Basketball Dorm's Name For $7 Million Donation

Posted 10.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Joe Craft, Friends of Coal, University of Kentucky, Coal Dorm UK, Coal, Big Coal, Coal Dorm University of Kentucky, Green News

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...

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The Economic Wind for New Energy Is Stiffening

Anne Butterfield | Posted 10.28.2009 | Denver

Read More: Wind Power, New Energy Economy, Xcel, Green Jobs, Coal Industry, Comanche 3, Boulder, Renewable Energy, Wind Energy, Bill Ritter, Coal, Denver News
Anne Butterfield

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.

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Beware the 'Hidden' Costs of Dirty Fuels

Rob Perks | Posted 10.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Power Plants, Power, Mountaintop Removal, Coal, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Green News
Rob Perks

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.

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Colorado Air Division Thumbs Nose at Governor Ritter

Jeremy Nichols | Posted 10.27.2009 | Denver

Read More: Clean Air, Valmont Power Plant, Bill Ritter, Xcel, Climate, Boulder, Air Polution, Carbon Dioxide, Clean Energy, Coal, Global Warming, Colorado, Denver News
Jeremy Nichols

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?

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How Green is Chicago? Eight Arrested at Deadly Fisk Coal-Fired Plant

Jeff Biggers | Posted 10.27.2009 | Chicago

Read More: 350.Org, Climate Change, Chicago, Mountaintop Removal, Coal, Strip Mining, Sierra Club, Coal-Fired Plants, Barack Obama, Dick Durbin, 350ppm, Chicago News
Jeff Biggers

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.

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It's Time For Mountaintop Removal To Stop

Gloria Reuben | Posted 10.27.2009 | Impact

Read More: Appalachia Coal, Appalachia, Dirty Coal, Mountaintop Removal, Coal, Coal Industry, Big Coal, Impact News
Gloria Reuben

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.

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Breaking: Mountaintop Removal Begins on Coal River Mountain -- Help Needed Now

Matt Wasson | Posted 10.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Green Energy, Mountaintop Removal, Coal Mining, Coal, Green News
Matt Wasson

The fate of Coal River Mountain is America's energy future. If the coal companies can mine there, they can do anything they want.

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The Must-See New Film Coal Country

Bruce Nilles | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Dirty Coal, Coal Country, Coal, Sierra Club, Mtr, Sierra, Green News
Bruce Nilles

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...

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Climate Cover-Up: Blockbuster New Book Exposes Anatomy of Denial

Jeff Biggers | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books

Read More: Tar Sands, Al Gore, Climate-Destabilization, John Kerry, President Barack Obama, Big Coal, Kevin Grandia, Climate Change, Climate Deniers, Oil, Canada, DeSmog Blog, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Coal, Jame Loggan, Books News
Jeff Biggers

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.

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Stephen Colbert Takes On Coal Lobby And Bonner And Associates (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Climate Bill, Bonner and Associates, Coal, Climate Change, Colbert Report, Coal Lobby, Green News

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...

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Saudi Arabia Learns Hubris from Big Coal

Michael Kieschnick | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Coal, Saudi Arabia, Global Warming, Waxman-Markey, Green News
Michael Kieschnick

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.?

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Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!

Carl Pope | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Pollution, Clean Coal, Saudi Arabia, Coal, Oil, Green News
Carl Pope

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.

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Killing Our Water: The Hidden Cost of Dirty Energy

John DeCock | Posted 10.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Coal Sludge, Mountaintop Removal, Toxics, Nuclear Power, Climate Change, Dead Zone, Blog Action Day, Mountain Top Removal, bad09, Ethanol, Coal, Global Warming, Green News
John DeCock

Perhaps the biggest challenge in changing human behavior to address the reality of climate change is connecting impacts to every day life.  But t...

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Irreparable Damage: Senate Must Block OSM Nominee Pizarchik Today

Jeff Biggers | Posted 10.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Appalachia, Dirty Coal, Osmre, Mountaintop Removal, 60 Minutes, President Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Coal Ash, Cbs, Ken Salazar, Coal, Department of the Interior, Green News
Jeff Biggers

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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Coal Is Too Dirty Even for Colleges

Bruce Nilles | Posted 10.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Beyond Coal, Clean Energy, Dirty Coal, Campus, Sierra Club, Coal, College, Green News
Bruce Nilles

Did you know that many of our country's colleges and universities -- places that are supposed to be a source of higher-education and leadership -- get their electricity by burning coal?

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Coal Ash On 60 Minutes: Lax Coal Ash Recycling Practices "An Outrage" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 10.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Lisa Jackson, Coal Ash Recycling, 60 Minutes, Epa, Coal Ash, Coal Ash Toxins, Coal Ash Filler, Coal Ash Spill, TVA Disaster, Coal, Green News

Lesley Stahl on Sunday's 60 Minutes did an in-depth look at the problems with the by-products of coal production, commonly known as coal ash. Coal ash...

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Green News Report - October 1, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 12.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Green Building, Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, Clean Energy, Green News Report, Plastic Bottles, Coal, Barbara Boxer, Rising Sea Level, Mountaintop Removal, Green News, Logging, Climate Change, Climate Legislation, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Chamber of Commerce, Global Warming, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Landmark clean energy legislation finally drops in the U.S. Senate; EPA plows forward anyway; Scientists revise their pred...

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Misleading "Energy Sprawl" Study Pollutes Climate Debate

Matt Wasson | Posted 12.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy Sprawl, Wind Power, hr2454, Climate, Mining, Mountaintop Removal, Nuclear, Coal, Solar Power, Green Energy, Impact, Green News
Matt Wasson

The concept of "energy sprawl," now associated with such a distorted picture of the impacts of wind, solar, coal and nuclear technologies, adds nothing but confusion and false impressions to the climate debate.

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Coal Baron Don Blankenship's Crazy Talk on Climate Change

Rob Perks | Posted 11.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate, Massey, Coal, Mtr, Dirty Coal, Dirty Energy, Clean Energy, Dirty Fuels, Don Blankenship, Climate Change, Mountaintop Mining, Climate Legislation, Mountaintop Removal, Climate Bill, Coal Mining, Global Warming, Green News
Rob Perks

Perhaps Blankenship's extreme wealth is why Forbes magazine decided to interview him. But what shines through more than anything is Blankenship's extreme anti-environmental worldview.

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On Climate Change: It's Not Time to Throw In the Towel

Betsy Taylor | Posted 11.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Jobs, Copenhagen 2009, Hu Jintao, United Nations, Oil, Green, Climate Change, Coal, New York, Pittsburgh, Global Warming, Barack Obama, India, Tck-Tck-Tck, 350.Org, Maldives, Avaaz, Powershift, China, 1sky, Green News
Betsy Taylor

We must protect ourselves against the dark vision of rising seas and temperatures, but not by numbly going through the motions with our actions and alerts. The times call for more risk-taking.

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Coal's Ash Is on the Line

Bruce Nilles | Posted 11.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Dirty Coal, Environmental Protection Agency, Coal Ash, Coal, Epa Coal, Tennessee Coal Ash, The EPA, Green News
Bruce Nilles

Nearly a hundred million tons of toxic coal ash and related coal combustion wastes pile up in unlined ponds and pits across the U.S. every year, the second largest solid waste stream in the nation.

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News Flash - All Fuels Have Indirect Effects

Bob Dinneen | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Solar, Biofuel, Renewable Energy, Wind, Oil, Petroelum, Ethanol, Coal, Natural Gas, Green News
Bob Dinneen

No credible research can conclude that ethanol production in the U.S. is the driving force behind deforestation and other land use changes in other sovereign nations.

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Coal Slurry Smiles: NY Times Nails Clean Water Act Crimes and Punishment

Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Mountaintop Removal, Epa, Appalachia, NY Times, Coal Slurry, Water, Disease, West Virginia, Clean Water Act, Coal Ash, Lisa Jackson, Joe Manchin, Coal, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Duhigg's portrait of the Clean Water Act violations in West Virginia--and the indifference of state agencies--blew the cover on one of the worst kept secrets in Appalachia.

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Breaking: Suit Cites Chronic Pizarchik Failure: Millions Call for OSM Nominee Withdraw

Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Lisa Jackson, Dirty Coal, Osmre, Green News, Green Jobs, President Barack Obama, Coal Ash, Joseph Pizarchik, Clean Energy, Mountaintop Removal, Pennsylvania, Tva, Coal, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Pizarchik's hearing on Tuesday will be a litmus test of the Obama administration's--and the US Senate's--commitment to appointing and confirming agency directors who believe in science and law in our nation's coalfields.

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EPA: Pending Mountaintop Removal Permits Would Likely Violate Clean Water Act

Bruce Nilles | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Mountaintop Removal, Coal, Sierra Club, Epa, Clean Water Act, Green News
Bruce Nilles

For the eight years of the Bush Administration, permits were being issued that violated the Clean Water Act, but EPA was prevented from objecting. Clearly there is a new sheriff in town.

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