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Stopping Coal in Its Tracks: Will Historic Actions This Week Launch Summer Uprising?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Rainforest Action Network, Bank of America, Appalachia, Dirty Coal, James-Hansen, Duke Energy, Mountaintop Removal, Greenpeace, Mickey McCoy, Coal, Anti-Big Coal, Anti Big Coal, Green News

Activists in North Carolina tagged Apple's logo on the coal trains today, calling out the tech company's increasingly coal-fired needs at it expanding Maiden, NC, datacenter.

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Cincinnati Dumps Duke Energy

Philip Radford | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Clean Energy, Duke Energy, Renewable Energy, Fracking, Green, Environmentalism, Green Living, Green News, Environment, Solar Power, Cincinnati Clean Energy, Cincinnati Renewable Energy, Cincinnati Dumps Duke Energy, Cincinnati Duke Energy, Green News

A renewable energy future for the city of Cincinnati is great news; it is a great first step in the direction we need to go as a nation. It is time to see real, deployed, and distributed renewable energy solutions across America.

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Apple's Dirty Cloud

Kumi Naidoo | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Apple Icloud, Apple, Apple Store, Renewable Energy, Climate Change, Icloud, Greenpeace, Coal, Apple Products, Duke Energy, Pollution, Global Warming, Technology News

Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Apple operate much of the Internet on 'the cloud.' In reality, the cloud is a vast network of warehouses. Much of that electricity currently comes from dirty, dangerous coal and nuclear power.

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2012 Is Make or Break (the Planet) for Dirty Duke Energy

Philip Radford | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Dnc Charlotte, Jim Rogers, Duke Energy (NYSE:DUK), Environment Activism, Green News, Greenpeace Duke Energy, Climate Change, Coal Greenpeace, Sustainability, Duke Energy, Global Warming, Green News

Progress Energy and Duke Energy (NYSE:DUK) are pursuing a merger that will make them the nation's largest utility, with the power to either lead us forward with high-tech clean energy investments or throw us back to the industrial age.

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Occupy Y'All Street: Occupy Charlotte Activist Gambles Everything On The Movement

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 02.09.2012

This is the fourth in a series of stories and short films on under-publicized Occupy sites. The first is here, the second is here, and the third is he...

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A Cautionary Tale About Wind Power

J. Michael Welton | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Wind Power, General Electric, Art Meets Science, Meredith, Wind, Duke Energy, Documentary, Ny, Larua Israel, Deepwater Horizon, Wind Energy, Windfall Documentary, Wind Turbines, New York, Arts News

Filmmaker Laura Israel isn't tilting at windmills -- but she does want to cast a critical eye in their direction. And she's done that with Windfall -- her first documentary film.

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This Little Piggy Made Energy (With Methane)

Neil Wagner | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Cartoons, Comic Strips, Methane Emissions, Comic Strip, Duke Energy, Climate Change, Duke University, Anaerobic Digester, Cartoon, Methane Capture, Global Warming, Methane, Green News

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Meet Mitch Daniels, Big Spender

Carol Polsgrove | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Edwardsport Power Plant, I-69, Bloomington, Mitch Daniels, Duke Energy, Rockport Gasification Plant, Presidential Candidates, Metropolitan Planning Organization, Politics News

The idea that possible presidential candidate Mitch Daniels represents fiscal restraint sounds like hogwash to opponents of three pricey projects moving forward on his watch as governor of Indiana.

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For Democrats, A Green Energy Double Standard

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Clean Coal, Duke Energy Democratic Convention, Steven Chu, Obama Coal, Green Energy, Duke Energy, Duke Energy Charlotte, Duke Energy Obama, Duke Energy Democratic Convention 2012, Duke Energy Steven Chu, Green News

By Kristen Lombardi The Center For Public Integrity Democrats have turned to Duke Energy Corporation for a $10 million line of credit for their 2012 ...

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The Group Leading Fundraising Charge For DNC Convention In 2012

The Charlotte Observer | Jim Morrill | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dnc 2012 Convention, Dnc Convention 2012, Duke Energy Dnc Convention, 2012 Dnc Convention, Elections 2012, DNC Convention, Barack Obama Dnc Convention, Barack Obama, 2012 Election, Obama Dnc Convention 2012, Duke Energy Dnc Convention 2012, Obama Dnc Convention, Duke Energy, Barack Obama Dnc Convention 2012, Politics News

Duke Energy Corp., whose CEO is leading the fundraising for the Democratic National Convention, is guaranteeing a $10 million line of credit for the e...

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How Business Interests Hijacked US-China Relations

Tina Gerhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: General Electric, Robert Reich, Hu Jintao, Renewable Energy, Clean Energy, Green Energy, China, Coal, Barack Obama, US China Relations, Nuclear Energy, Duke Energy, Climate Change, Climate Bill, Department of Energy, US, Brookings Institution, Green News

Instead of taking the opportunity to up the ante of a US commitment to renewable energy by setting strong policy signals, Obama has largely left energy discussion to CEOs.

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America's Largest Utility Formed After Huge Deal

The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mergers and Acquisitions, Business Deals, Progress Energy, Energy Mergers, Business News, Duke Energy, America's Largest Utility, Duke Progress Energy, Business News

Duke Energy Corp. is buying Progress Energy Inc. to create what will be America's largest utility company. Duke Energy paid more than $13 billion i...

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Darrell Issa's Ominous Past & Twitter Avatar: Top 10 reasons Issa is the perfect Obama watchdog

Katie Halper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Toyota and Bayer, Issa Viper, Obama Most Corrupt, Arson Issa, Issa Gun, Issa Criminal, Rep. Darrell Issa, 9/11, Richest-Members-of-Congress, Gray Davis, Regulation, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Obama-Issa, California Congressman, Slidepollajax, Obama Adminsitration, Oversight Committee, Arson, Issa Avatar, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), Financial Regulation, Congressional Oversight Committee, California, Avatar, Issa Auto, Darrell Issa, The National Petrochemical & Refiners Association (NPRA), FMC Corp., One of the Most Corrupt Presidents, The Association of American Railroads, 9/11 First Responders, The American Petroleum Institute, Obama Corruption Case, Duke Energy, Twitter Avatar, Issa Twitter, Republicans, Comedy News

Don't let Darrell Issa's verbal ineptitude or crime-ridden past fool you: The last person Obama wants investigating him is this cunning and savvy California congressman.

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Indiana and Duke Energy Officials Bantered While Ratepayers Picked Up the Tab

Carol Polsgrove | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Duke Energy, Coal Gasification, Edwardsport, Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, Indianapolis Star, Revolving Door, Green News

You'd think the second highest paid executive at an energy company would know better than to chatter with the chairman of a regulatory commission in emails that might end up in the hands of a journalist.

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What Are CEOs Doing at COP16? - VIDEO

David Kroodsma | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hub Culture, Felipe Calderon, Coca-Cola, cop16, Cancun, Dow Chemical, Duke Energy, Femsa, Global Warming, Climate Change, Green News

If fighting climate change really is good for business, why has the U.S. failed to pass climate legislation?

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Mitch Daniels's Presidential Prospects Could Be Dimmed by Power Plant Scandal

Carol Polsgrove | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Duke Energy, Coal Gasification, Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, Peabody Energy, Carbon Sequestration, Bear Run Mine, Edwardsport, Mitch Daniels President, Politics News

Anyone who thinks Indiana's Republican Governor Mitch Daniels should run for president hasn't paid much attention to the dark cloud hanging over Duke Energy's new coal gasification plant.

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Coal Industry Continues Its Shady Practices

Bruce Nilles | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Duke Energy, Massey Energy, Kentucky, Coal, Sierra Club, Indiana, Kansas, Parkinson Fires Bremby, Rod Bremby, Governor Mark Parkinson, Green News

If you ever wanted evidence that the coal industry is corrupting our politics, look no further than the state of Kansas and the decision by Governor Mark Parkinson to fire his chief environmental official Rod Bremby.

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EPA Coal Ash Hearings Intensify, Tennessee Hearing Added Following Controversy

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Coal Ash Recycling, Clean Coal, Arrowhead Landfill, Epa, Duke Energy, Lamar Alexander, Coal Ash, TVA Disaster, Uniontown Alabama, Coal Ash Hearings, Green News

Reversing its embarrassing oversight, the EPA has added one final public hearing on coal ash regulatory proposals, to be held fittingly in Tennessee, the state that suffered the worst coal ash disaster in U.S. history in December 2008.

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Lindsey Graham Took Big Money From Energy Donors In First Quarter

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett and Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Exelon, American Electric Power, Duke Energy, Nuclear Energy, Climate Legislation, Clean Energy, Lindsey Graham, Climate Change Bill, Climate Bill, Politics News

When Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) jilted his climate-change partners this week, he abandoned more than a few senators and the White House. He also lef...

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The Inside Scoop on the "Climate War"

Kevin Grandia | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Climate Change Book, Green News, Fred Krupp, Environmental Defence Fund, Climate Change, Sustainability, The Climate War, Duke Energy, Eric Pooley, Global Warming, Jim Rogers, Green News

The first question I had for author Eric Pooley after I finished reading his new book, The Climate War, was whether he had set up hidden cameras all o...

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Business America Lights a Candle for Copenhagen

Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 05.25.2011

There are many in the corporate realm who "get it" -- that's why they're finding new and innovative ways to combat climate change.

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Bomb Appalachia (and Face the Music)

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 05.25.2011

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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Duke Energy, Polluting Region's Air, Agrees To Cut Emissions

nytimes.com | MIREYA NAVARRO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Duke Energy Agrees to Cut Emissions, Carbon Emissions, New Jersey, Connecticut, Duke Energy, Adirondacks, Pollution, Air Pollution, New York, New York News

New York, New Jersey and Connecticut joined the federal government and two environmental groups in a 1999 lawsuit over pollution from the Duke plant, ...

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Turning Up the Pressure on the U.S Chamber of Commerce

Josh Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nrdc, General Electric, Ed Markey, South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce, President Obama, Employee Free Choice Act, PNM Resources, Accce, San Jose Chamber of Commerce, Alcoa, Climate Change, Americans With Disabilities Act, New Yorker, Apple, Nike, Kevin Grandia, Adam Green, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, PG&E, Blue America, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Politics, Service Employees International Union, Exelon, CREDO Mobile, Global Warming, Family and Medical Leave Act, Political News, Steven Chu, Efca, Natural Resources Defense Council, Duke Energy, Health Care, Chamber of Commerce, Senator Graham, Frank Knapp, Levi Strauss, Move On, Seiu, Entergy, Psef, Green News

Companies should only be members of the Chamber of Commerce if they support hyper-conservative anti-regulatory policies across the board, and aren't afraid to show it.

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Dominoes Keep Falling for Clean Coal Coalition

Bruce Nilles | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alstom Power, Duke Energy, Clean Energy, Dirty Coal, Coal, Aces, Accce, Green News

The defections of Duke Energy and Alstom Power are clear signs that the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity has gone too far--even for energy companies like Duke that are heavily invested in coal.

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