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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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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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Coal Companies Destroying, Not Restoring Mountains

Rob Perks | Posted 08.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Coalmining, Mountaintopremoval, Appalachia, Dirtycoal, Osm, Mtr, Mountaintopmining, Mountaintop Coal Removal, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Mountain Top Removal, Green News
Rob Perks

Lax enforcement by state and federal environmental officials means that the mountaintop removal reclamation rarely results in reshaping the mountain to its approximate original state.

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'Appalachian Apocalypse': Obama Permits Mountaintop Removal Mining

thedailygreen.com | Posted 06.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Mountaintop Removal, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Green News

Just stop and consider this: Across Appalachia, companies are blowing entire mountaintops to smithereens to get at the thin coal seams below. The comm...

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Debate: Roberts v. 'Clean Coal' Flack Joe Lucas

David Roberts | Posted 06.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Accce, Clean Coal, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Big Coal, Coal Industry, Tennessee Coal Ash, Renewable Energy, Coal, America's Power, Dirty Coal, Joe Lucas, Mountaintop Removal, Tennessee Coal Spill, Coal Ash, Spin, Climate Change, Coal Mining, Green News
David Roberts

There was an online debate between me and Joe Lucas, spokesflack for the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity. When he received my questions, he ran off like a pansy.

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EPA Freezes Hundreds Of Mountaintop Mining Permits

AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 04.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Politics, Epa, Lisa Jackson, Mountaintop Removal Mining, Coal, Coal Mining, Huntington-West Virginia, Richmond-Virginia, Charleston-West Virginia, Green News

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency put hundreds of mountaintop coal-mining permits on hold Tuesday to evaluate the projects' impac...

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Letter From a Mountaineer to President Obama

Dave Cooper | Posted 03.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Appalachia, Coal Sludge, Environmental Policy, Mountaintop Coal Removal, Clean Coal, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Health, President Obama, Environment, Mountaintop Removal, Pollution, Coal, Green News
Dave Cooper

During your presidential campaign, you declared: "We have to find more environmentally sound ways of mining coal than simply blowing the tops off mountains." That time is now. Or never.

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Ashley Judd Rallies Against Mountaintop Mining

AP | Posted 03.20.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Ashley Judd, Mountaintop Mining, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Mining, Entertainment News

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Ashley Judd is calling for an end to the mining practice known as mountaintop removal. The Kentucky native was among some 500 ...

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A View to a Spill: Coal Ash Slideshow

Rob Perks | Posted 03.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Video, Mountaintop Removal, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Tennessee Coal Ash, Tennessee, Environment, Coal Ash, Coal Ash Spill, Coal, Tva, Tennessee Valley Authority, Green News
Rob Perks

It's one thing for a group of scientists to suggest turning lemons into lemonade in the case of the TVA spill, but the folks living this nightmare don't seem to like the sour taste. Who can blame them?

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Describing the Devastation of Mountaintop Mining

Peter Lehner | Posted 03.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Tennessee Coal Ash, Renewable Energy, Fertility, Animals, Coal, Tennessee Valley Authority, Mountains, Trees, Mountaintop Removal, Grass, Tennessee, Topsoil, Kentucky, Coal Mining, TVA Spill, Toxic, Clean Coal, Carbon Emissions, Nrdc, Environmentalism, Winter, Tva, Natural Resources Defense Council, Bush Administration, Mining, Tennessee Coal Spill, Land, Environment, TVA Disaster, Valleys, Green News
Peter Lehner

We also need to cap carbon and make coal pay its true price so that clean energy can compete with it. NRDC will be working on all of that.

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Circuit Breaker: Oval Office Lights Connected to Mountaintop Removal

Jeff Biggers | Posted 02.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Dirty Coal, Al Gore, Renewable Energy, Coal, Mountaintop Removal, Energy Agenda, Clean Water, Green Energy, Green Recovery, Barack Obama, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Alternative Energy, Barack Obama Environmental Policy, Green News
Jeff Biggers

All Americans are connected to the tragedy of mountaintop removal. It's time to start the process of illuminating the White House, and our own homes, with clean energy.

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Mountaintop Removal Explained By Cartoon

Huffington Post | Posted 01.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Mountaintop Removal, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Climate Change, Mining, Environment, Coal, Green News

Mountaintop-removal mining is a method of surface mining that involves lopping of the tops of mountains. The process is most closely associated with c...

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Bank Of America To Stop Financing Mountaintop Removal

Grist | Joseph Romm | Posted 01.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Bank of America, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Green News, Climate Change, Mining, Environment, Banks, Mountaintop Removal, Coal, Global Warming, Investing, Green News

One of the world's largest financial institutions said this week it will phase out lending money to coal operators that use mountaintop removal mining...

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Does Obama Have What It Takes To Confront Our Climate Crisis?

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 12.20.2008 | Green

Read More: Mountaintop Removal, Clean Coal, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Governors Climate Conference, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Barack Obama Global Warming, Jim Hansen, Coal, Barack Obama, President Obama, Obama Administration, Obama Climate Change, Obama Climate Change Video, Barack Obama Environmental Policy, Barack Obama Environment, President Elect Obama, Green News
Sarah van Gelder

It is a relief that we are now discussing how, rather than whether, to address this global crisis. But will Obama's actions be up to the crisis at hand?

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How Much More Damage Can They Do? (And Can We Undo It?)

Carl Pope | Posted 11.20.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Sarah Palin, Beluga Whales, Epa, Green News
Carl Pope

Last week's EPA decision to set science-based air quality standards for lead was clearly a fluke -- not a declaration of independence by environmental agency leaders against Cheney and the White House.

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A War on the Future

Carl Pope | Posted 10.13.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Massey Coal, Massey Energy Company, Joe Manchin, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Coal, Green News
Carl Pope

What kind of society makes it easier to get a permit to blow up a mountain than to get one to erect a wind mill on top of it? Big Carbon is making war on our future, and we are letting them.

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Bees, Trees, Wind and Dynamite

Kevin Grandia | Posted 10.11.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Energy, Massey Energy Company, Clean Coal, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Coal, West Virginia, Green News
Kevin Grandia

As renewable energy technology becomes cheaper and more efficient, coal companies are finding it a lot more difficult to justify such crude and environmentally disastrous techniques for powering America.

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Tim Kaine: The Veep Hopeful Who Would Raise Energy Costs

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 09.17.2008 | Home

Read More: Vice President, John McCain, Barack Obama, Tim Kaine, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Climate Change, Negative Attacks, Environment, Climate Crisis, Coal, Global Warming, Home News
Glenn Hurowitz

Tim Kaine did his best to look vice-presidential this weekend in Manassas, but while Kathleen Sebelius, for example, is taking on Big Coal, Kaine proposes to take the country into a coal-fired future.

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"D-Carbon" Brings Solar to the Coalfields

Josh Dorner | Posted 09.12.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Wind Power, Minnesota, Schuylkill County, Anthracite, Renewable Electricity Standard, Ed Rendell, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Carbon County, United Mine Workers of America, Coal, Pennsylvania, Gamesa, Natural Gas, Al Gore, Global Warming, Solar Power, Green News
Josh Dorner

Carbon County, in a poetic turn, is now set to host the second largest solar facility in the nation.

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