Powder River Basin

EPA Protects West Coast Ports Besieged by Coal

Carol Pierson Holding | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Epa, West Coast Coal Ports, Port of Portland, Port of Los Angeles, Vancouver Coal Port, Montana, Powder River Basin, Chinese Coal Imports, Wyoming, David Gambrel, Coal Age, Army Corps of Engineers, Columbia River Gorge, Longview, Latx, Green News

It's amazing what a determined group of people can do, even in the face of the combined forces of coal, railway, and shipping industries. I sure hope they succeed.

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New Plans for Coal Exports Are Bad Business

Mary Anne Hitt | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Energy, Coal Exports, Environmental Health, Powder River Basin, Washington, Environment, Oregon, Pollution, Coal, Sierra Club, Green News

We are determined to stop these dirty coal exports across the region and instead build a clean energy future that protects the Pacific Northwest's environment, health and economy.

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Coal Battle In Pacific Northwest Has Global Fallout

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Video, Powder River Basin, Carbon Emissions, Oil Spill, Coal Dust, Exports, Bellingham WA, Gateway Pacific Terminal, Climate Change, Pollution, Coal, Herring, China, Shipping, Green News

BELLINGHAM, Wash. -- The flyer and I landed in Matt Krogh's Bellingham office on the same October afternoon. I had stopped by to hear why he thought b...

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Powder River Basin: The New Energy Frontier?

Caroline Henderson | Posted 06.01.2011

Read More: Bellingham WA, Arch Coal, Longview-Washington, Peabody Energy, Powder River Basin, Secretary Salazar, Green News

How will America embark upon a new energy frontier when we're promoting backwards policies that not only prolong the use of coal in the U.S, but also further enable dirty and destructive energy habits abroad?

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Big Coal Giveaway

Michael Brune | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Birth Defects, Powder River Basin, Coal, President Obama, Coal Mining Birth Defects, Coal Mining, Big Coal, Green News

This week, in the heart of one of the nation's best potential wind energy-producing regions, the Powder River Basin, the Obama administration handed away thousands of acres of federal land, land owned by you and me, to the coal industry.

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Obama Administration Announces Massive Coal-Mining Expansion

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wild Earth Guardians, Politics, Democratic Primary, Powder River Basin, Nuclear Power, Environmental Movement, Fukushima, Oil, American Petroleum Institute, Bernie Sanders, Ken Salazar, Coal, Barack Obama, Green News

Despite his administration's rhetorical embrace of clean energy, when push comes to shove, Obama is effectively using modest wind and solar investments as cover for a broader embrace of dirty fuels.

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Your iPod Is Polluting China and L.A. -- and Wyoming Might Be Next

Daniel K. Gardner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foxconn, Powder River Basin, Ipod, Apple, Wyoming, Greenhouse Gas, Shenzhen, Co2, Peabody Energy, Guangzhou, China, Los Angeles, Coal, Green News

Next time you buy an iPod, don't forget to add the CO2 cost of moving coal from Powder River Basin, Wyo., to Guangzhou, China.

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Uranium One, Eyed For Russian Purchase, Divesting From Colorado

The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Sergey Kislyak, Powder River Basin, Colorado Uranium, Uranium One, Atomredmetzoloto, Uranium, Denver News

Uranium One, a Canadian company mired in controversy over its proposed purchase by a Russian mining conglomerate, is divesting itself of its Colorado ...

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Back in Humpty Dumpty Land

Carl Pope | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Black Thunder, Bureau of Land Management, Blm, Georgia, Powder River Basin, Coal, Green News

Through a useful regulatory loophole, commonsense safeguards have been absent in the United States' Powder River Basin since 1990.

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Salazar's Dirty Energy Disgrace

Jeremy Nichols | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Powder River Basin, Copenhagen 2009, Greenhouse Gases, Department of Interior, Climate Change, Wyoming, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Ken Salazar, Coal Mining, Coal, Barack Obama, Global Warming, Denver News

Here's an international embarrassment waiting to happen. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is not only planning to tag along with Obama in Copenhagen, he's going to be a keynote speaker.

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The True Impact of Coal Mining

Bruce Nilles | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Coal, Powder River Basin, Mining, Dirty Coal, Coal River Mountain, Sierra Club, Clean Coal, Green News

Blasting has begun on Coal River Mountain in West Virginia, site of a long battle between Massey Energy and local residents who want it to be a site for wind turbines instead of coal mining.

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Elk, Gas Drilling Interests Collide In Northeast Wyoming

AP | MEAD GRUVER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Williams and Lance Oil and Gas, Elk Natural Gas Wyoming, Bureau of Land Management, Natural Gas, Elk, Powder River Basin, Blm, Pipeline Drilling for Oil, Denver News

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Environmentalist concerns about elk have prompted the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to suspend coal-bed methane drilling in pa...

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