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Hechler's Wake Up Call to Greens and Liberals: Big Coal Denial Calls for Hellraisers

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Ken Hechler, Dirty Coal, Cilv Disobedience, Clean Coal, President Barack Obama, Big Coal, Renewable Energy, Social Movements, Mountaintop Removal, Ken Salazar, Lisa Jackson, Direct Action, Green Energy, Black Lung, Coal, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Tragic lessons in history remind us that the coal crisis and its deniers call for more hellraisers, not compromise.

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VICTORY: Dynegy Out of the New Coal Business

Bruce Nilles | Posted 09.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Dirty Coal, Coal, Blackstore Group, Sierra Club, Clean Up Dynergy, Georgia, Dynergy, Green News
Bruce Nilles

Three years ago Dynegy launched plans to partner with LS Power and become the largest new developer of coal-fired power plants. Yesterday Dynegy officially terminated those plans.

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VIDEO UPDATE: Coalfield Uprising Grows: Will Feds Take Down WVA's Embarrassing DEP?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Mountaintop Premoval, Dirty Coal, President Barack Obama, Big Coal, West Virginia, Renewable Energy, Department of Interior, Coal, Osm, Wvdep, Green News
Jeff Biggers

The failed West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection is emerging as an embarrassingly pro-coal anti-mountain public relations nightmare.

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Townhall Mobs -- Brought to You by Big Oil and Dirty Coal

Josh Dorner | Posted 09.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Dick Armey, Dirty Coal, Clean Coal, Freedomworks, Exxon Mobil, Accce, Tea Parties, Coal, Hawthorn Group, Harry Reid, American Solutions for Winning the Future, Sierra Club, Front Groups, Americans for Prosperity, Big Oil, Bonner and Associates, Rachel Maddow, Exxon, Koch Industries, Paul Kurgman, Townhall Mobs, Newt Gingrich, Health Care, Astroturf, Green News
Josh Dorner

There's considerable evidence that these astroturf corporate lobbying operations are also trying to derail clean energy jobs legislation.

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Let Them Eat Coal Ash: OSM Nominee Pizarchik Must Be Stopped Now

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Dirty Coal, Senate Hearing, Mountaintop Removal, President Barack Obama, Clean Energy, Ken Salazar, Lisa Jackson, Coal, Osm, Green News
Jeff Biggers

The Obama's administration's OSM nomination of Pizarchik, the seemingly good-natured and well-meaning Pennsylvania Director of the Bureau of Mining and Reclamation, is a colossal error.

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JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon: Time to Walk the Talk on Coal

Bruce Nilles | Posted 09.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Dirty Coal, Massey Energy, JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, Finance, Coal, Sierra Club, Green News
Bruce Nilles

JPMorgan Chase is pouring billions of dollars into dirty coal plant projects -- projects that would dramatically increase global warming pollution and ensure runaway global warming.

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This Little (Coal-Fired) Light of Mine: Will President Heed 45 Million Prayers?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Catholics, Jews, Christians, President Barack Obama, Dirty Coal, Big Coal, Mountaintop Removal, National Council of Churches, Coal, Protestants, Eco-Justice, Mountaintop Coal Removal, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, O, Green News
Jeff Biggers

August 3rd should be a national day of atonement for our sins against the American mountains and mountaineers.

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Publishing Michigan to Granholm: We Want Clean Energy

Bruce Nilles | Posted 08.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Gov. Granholm, Dirty Coal, Clean Energy, Coal, Michigan, Governor Jennifer Granholm, Environment, Environmentalism, Green News
Bruce Nilles

Michigan residents want Governor Granholm to get this message loud and clear: No more coal. We want clean energy!

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Blackout: Dwindling Coal Reserves and the Siren Song of "Clean Coal"

David Roberts | Posted 08.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Capture and Storage, Peak Coal, Clean Coal, Energy Return on Investment, Peak Oil, Eroi, Hubbert Curve, Energy Crisis, Richard Heinberg, Coal, Green News
David Roberts

If we don't begin massive investment in renewable power sources, civilization could be at risk before the end of the century. Such is the stark conclusion of Blackout, one of the scariest books I've ever read.

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Letter From Europe: Foreign Disbelief of Topless America

Jeff Biggers | Posted 08.28.2009 | Green

Read More: G8, Appalachia, Dirty Coal, Mountaintop Removal, . President Barack Obama, Wind, Ireland, Italy, Green Energy, Film, Coal, Green News
Jeff Biggers

It's hard for any foreigner to believe that President Obama has quietly acquiesced to the marketing and machinations of Big Coal.

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King Coal

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Posted 08.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Appalachia, Greenhouse Gases, Environment, Renewable Energy, Natural Gas, Pollution, Green Energy, Coal, Strip Mining, Green News
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The giant advantage of a quick conversion from coal to gas is the quickest route for jumpstarting our economy and saving our planet.

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The Rabid Right

Josh Dorner | Posted 08.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Tea Baggers, Rush Limbaugh, John Kerry, Barabara Boxer, Sarah Palin, Oil, Twitter, Clean Energy, Glenn Beck, Tea Party, Drill Baby Drill, Coal, Nuclear Power, Big Oil, Dick Cheney, Green News
Josh Dorner

Luckily for Palin, "drill, baby, drill" only takes up 18 characters, leaving a full 122 more to pay homage to Big Oil, dirty coal, and the nukes that she loves so much.

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Abetting Historicide: Does Nancy Sutley's Regulatory Banter Cover Up Crimes Against Coalfield Residents?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 08.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Department of Homeland Security, Dirty Coal, Council on Environmental Quality, Mountaintop Removal, Edward Abbey, President Barack Obama, Nancy Sutley, Coal, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Are Obama's well-meaning but irresolute environmental administrators abetting the crimes of human rights violations and historicide?

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Green Jobs March On: Navajos Lead First Nations with Historic Green Jobs Legislation

Jeff Biggers | Posted 08.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Navajo Nation, Dine, Van Jones, Green News, President Barack Obama, Green Jobs, Black Mesa, Green Energy, Coal, Green News
Jeff Biggers

The bounty of green job dreams is one step toward becoming a reality on the Dinetah-Navajo Nation.

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Grading a Climate Bill, Part 3: The Top 10 Bogus Statements in the Climate Debate

William S. Becker | Posted 08.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Carbon Emissions, President Obama, John Barrasso, Clean Energy, Obama Climate Change, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Coal, General Motors, Jon Stewart, David Hawkins, Mountain Top Removal, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Climate Change, Republican National Convention, Climate Bill, Green News
William S. Becker

Not all the American people are intelligent enough about climate change to know their intelligence has been insulted. It's a complicated topic made more complicated by bogus arguments.

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Rep. Nick Rahall Jumps Out Of A Plane For The Coal Lobby

Posted 08.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Nick Rahall, Coal, Lobbyists, Jumps Out of a Plane for the Coal Lobby, Coal Pays Off Congressman, Coal Lobby, Green News

In an eye-opening story on the influence of special interests on our elected officials, The Washington Independent has the dirt on West Virginia Congr...

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West Virginia Tourists Beware: Violence Escalates in Coalfields

Dave Cooper | Posted 08.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Ken Hechler, Don Blankenship, West Virginia, Mountaintop Removal, Manchin, Coal, Massey, Kayford, Mattea, Hansen, Hannah, Green News
Dave Cooper

Violence against environmental activists seems almost inevitable in the coalfields this summer as West Virginia politicians ignore the tense situation.

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It's Time To Defend Climate Change Bill

Trip Van Noppen | Posted 08.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Aces, Earthjustice, Coal, American-Climate-and-Security-Act, President Obama, Natural Gas, Green News
Trip Van Noppen

We must speak up and convince our senators that effective legislation cannot give coal a free pass and put this bill's effectiveness in jeopardy.

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Palin's Cap-and-Trade Is Alaska's Bait-and-Switch

Shannyn Moore | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gene Therriault, Transcanada, Agia, Tony Palmer, Climate Change, Natural Gas, Bill Wielechowski, Coal, Mark Myers, Sarah Palin, Gasline, Politics News
Shannyn Moore

During the debates when Gwen Ifill asked, "Do you support capping carbon emissions?" Palin responded, "I do. I do." What or whom changed Sarah Palin's mind about cap-and-trade?

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Half-Baked Alaska

Josh Dorner | Posted 08.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Clean Energy Jobs, Energy Efficiency, President Obama, Waxman-Markey, Aces, Washington Post, Clean Energy, Coal, Sarah Palin, Global Warming, Big Oil, Green News
Josh Dorner

In cementing her relationship as Big Oil's bestie, it looks like Palin may have stumbled on the perfect recipe for Baked Alaska.

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Stopping Blackstone Coal

Bruce Nilles | Posted 08.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Blackstone, Coal, Sierra Club, Coal Ash, Toquop Coal, Desert Rock Coal, Coal Plant, Sithe Global, Renewable Energy, Beyond Coal Campaign, Green News
Bruce Nilles

Last week when we hit the 100th coal-fired plant abandoned or prevented in the U.S., someone asked me, "What's next?" My answer came quickly: "It's time to stop the next 100."

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Green News Report - July 14, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Nuclear Power, Swine Flu, Renewable Energy, Pollution, Coal, Los Angeles, Coal-Fired Plants, Recycling, Bush Administration, Smog, Recycled Materials, China Energy, Sustainability, Nuclear-Meltdown, Sustainable Seafood, China, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Bush smacked down on smog; Texans told to conserve; Naked & recycled .... PLUS: The 50th Anniversary of the nation's first...

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The Failure of Democracy in West Virginia: Redefining "Alternative" Energy

Jerry Cope | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Coal-to-Liquids, Carbon Emissions, Alternative Energy, Greenhouse Gases, West Virginia, Carbon Credits, Political Corruption, Climate Change, Democracy, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Joe Manchin, Coal, Renewable Energy, Clean Energy, SB 297, Energy Portfolio Standard Bill, Epa, Obama Administration, Appalachia, Green News
Jerry Cope

Alternative energy is a standard reference to energy sources that are not carbon based. But in West Virginia, many of the designated "alternative" energy sources contribute not only significantly more GHG emissions than the dirtiest conventional coal fired plants, they emit toxic pollutants as well.

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L.A.'s Coal Ban Leads To Another Abandoned Power Plant

greenbiz.com | Tilde Herrera, July 13, 2009 | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, L.A., California, Coal Industry, Los Angeles, Power, Green Energy, Coal, Power Plant, Coal Based Electricity, Coal Ban, Electricity, Evolving Energy Tech, Coal Mining, Green News

The Intermountain Power Agency (IPA) announced Thursday it has given up plans to build an additional coal-fired unit. Its biggest customer -- the city...

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Climate Follies: Bankrolling Dirty Power in Developing Countries

Mindy S. Lubber | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Dirty Coal, Climate Change, Coal, Climate Bill, Asian Development Bank, World Bank, Green News
Mindy S. Lubber

While the industrialized world is struggling to cut its emissions, it is simultaneously bankrolling the construction of thousands of megawatts of new coal-fired power in developing countries.

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