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Chemical Plants Flock to Louisiana for Cheap Natural Gas

Susan Buchanan | Posted 08.13.2012 | Green
Read More: Refineries, Air Monitoring, Europe, Ethylene, Lung Disease, Fracking, Royal Dutch Shell, Environmental Integrity Project, Texas, Pipelines, Haynesville Shale, Pollution, Louisiana Bucket Brigade, Crude Oil, Oil Companies, Clean Air Act, Louisiana Oil and Gas Association, Louisiana Dept. Of Environmental Quality, Chemical Exposure, Asthma, Mississippi River, Green News
Susan Buchanan

Louisiana has attracted some cleaner industries recently, but after natural gas prices dropped to ten-year lows this spring, chemical manufacturers are rushing to build and expand. Residents need those jobs but fear explosions and toxic emissions.

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What Is The True Cost Of These Coal Plants?

Posted 06.09.2012 | Green
Read More: Coal Plants Cost, Coal Costs, Coal Plant, Video, Coal Impact, Environmental Integrity Project, Slideexpand, Coal Premature Deaths, Eip, Coal Plant Premature Deaths, Coal, Environmental Integrity Project Coal, Green News

Do the social costs of some coal-fired power plants exceed their values? A new report from the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) suggests that for...

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'Green News Report' - December 15, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 02.14.2012 | Green
Read More: Fracking, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, United Nations, National Journal, Michael Mann, Global Climate Mitigation, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Wyoming, Green News Report, Pollution, Radiation, Methane, Video, Conservatives, Americans for Prosperity, Big Oil, Corporate Media, Fossil Fuels, Climate Science, Durban, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Tea Party, Solar Power, Global Warming, Energy, Wisconsin, Fukushima, Carbon Emissions, Ipcc, Nuclear Power, Environmentalism, State Department, Toxic Chemicals, BRAD BLOG, Water, Keystone XL Pipeline, Green News, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hydraulic Fracturing, Japan, Unfccc, 350.Org, Environmental Integrity Project, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Safe Drinking Water Act, Gregory Jaczko, Coal, Darrell Issa, Ohio, Jason Chaffetz, John Boehner, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Gasoline Prices, Congressional Oversight, Coal Ash, Gasoline, Ed Markey, Arsenic, Water Pollution, Toxic Waste, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Arsenic a...

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Matt Sledge

Coal-State Lawmakers Want To Ignore This Danger

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 12.14.2011 | Green
Read More: Coal Plants, Environmental Protection Agency, Ben Nelson, Rob Portman, Mike Enzi, Kent Conrad, Environmental Integrity Project, John Boozman, Coal Ash, Kingston Fossil Plant, Coal Ash Spill, Joe Manchin, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Coal Mining, Tennessee Valley Authority, Green News

Just days before the three-year anniversary of the devastating dike failure at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant, the Environment...

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EPA Ignores TN and AL on Coal Ash, Nearest Hearing Is 260 Miles From TVA Disaster Site

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Environmental Justice, Earthjustice, Clean Coal, Arrowhead Landfill, Epa, Environmental Integrity Project, Coal Ash, Coal Ash Public Hearings, Uniontown Alabama, Sierra Club, Tennessee Valley Authority, Green News
Brendan DeMelle

Residents of Tennessee might have a few things to say about the impacts of coal ash, since the state suffered the worst coal ash disaster in U.S. history less than two years ago.

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Mercury Pollution From Many Power Plants Rose, Despite Widely-Available Pollution Controls

McClatchy | Renee Schoof | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: EPA Mercury, Epa, Mercury, Mercury Pollution, Environmental Integrity Project, Power Plants, Power Plants Mercury, EPA Pollution, Mercury Emissions, Pollution Control, Air Pollution, Mercury Poisoning, Clean Air Act, Green News

WASHINGTON -- Many of America's coal-fired power plants lack widely available pollution controls for the highly toxic metal mercury, and mercury emiss...

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