COAL PLANTS

GREEN
Everything's Bigger in Texas - Including Air Pollution Problems
By Mary Anne Hitt, Contributor
Director, Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign
Did you know that more sulfur dioxide haze pollution come from the eight Texas' coal plants subject to the EPA's haze clean-up plan than from all of the sources in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana combined? It's a serious air quality and public health problem.
GREEN
There's A Civil War Being Fought On Your Rooftop
By Carl Pope, Contributor
Former executive director and chairman, Sierra Club
Utilities don't mind that solar is renewable, zero carbon, and enjoys free fuel -- as long as they own it. But solar is also modular and decentralized, which they hate. They don't want to compete with their own customers.
GREEN
Blue Skies
By Michael Brune, Contributor
Executive Director, The Sierra Club
Our responsibility to end the suffering caused by coal brings with it a singular opportunity to build something better to take its place.
POLITICS
Once Upon A Time, Mitch McConnell Worried About Coal Plant's Environmental Risks
By Kate Sheppard
GREEN
A Zero Emissions Manifesto for the Climate Justice Movement
By Tom Weis and Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Contributors
Top military experts and government institutions like the U.S. Department of Defense and National Intelligence Council warn that climate destabilization threatens our national security, yet global emissions just keep going up.
BUSINESS
Old King Coal
By Jerry Jasinowski, Contributor
Fmr. President of the National Association of Manufacturers
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has decided to shutter eight coal-burning generating stations at three locations in Alabama and Kentucky, yet another blow to the beleaguered coal industry.
RELIGION
The Things We Should Be Doing Anyway
By Aaron Daniel Taylor, Contributor
Author, Filmmaker
In all of my studies into climate change solutions, I haven't found a single solution that doesn't have an additional positive benefit unrelated to climate change.
POLITICS
Treasury Issues New Guidance On Funding Coal Plants Abroad
By Kate Sheppard
GREEN
'War On Coal' Good For Some, Mainly The Natural Gas Industry
POLITICS
Democrats Join Coal Industry Lobbyists In New Pro-Coal Advocacy Group
By Kate Sheppard
GREEN
Startling Number Of New Coal Power Plants Proposed Around The World
By James Gerken
GREEN
International Agencies Using Flawed Data to Fast-Track Kosovo Coal Plant, Put Health At Risk
By Mary Anne Hitt and Justin Guay, Contributors
While no new coal plants have broken ground here in the U.S. since 2008, the U.S. government is backing a huge, polluting new coal plant oversees.
GREEN
Clean Air Victory for Texas as Coal Plant Permit Struck Down
By Mary Anne Hitt, Contributor
Director, Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign
This week Texas residents cheered when a judge invalidated the state air pollution permit for the proposed Las Brisas coal plant in Corpus Christi.
GREEN
"Our Land, Our Decision": Kosovo Protests World Bank and U.S. Plans for New Coal
By Mary Anne Hitt, Contributor
Director, Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign
While the U.S. has stopped building new coal plants and has rejected 166 proposed coal plants in the past decade, some of our government institutions are, inexplicably, trying to force new coal plants on other countries.
CHICAGO
Report: Midwest Generation To Close All Of Its Illinois Coal Plants
By Joseph Erbentraut
GREEN
Coal Plants Shut Down: Hard Work Pays Off, but More Work Ahead
By Philip Radford, Contributor
Executive Director, Greenpeace
After ten years of gritty and determined grassroots work, communities in Chicago triumphed over the corporate polluter in their back yard.
CHICAGO
City's Coal Plants To Close After Mayor Presents Ultimatum
By Joseph Erbentraut
GREEN
Will U.S. Carbon Rules 'Send The Message That Coal Is Dead'?
GREEN
EPA's New Air Pollution Rules Spark Debate Over The Value Of Life And Breath
By Tom Zeller Jr., Contributor
MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellow
GREEN
Coal-State Lawmakers Want To Ignore This Danger
By Matt Sledge
GREEN
No, It's Not All as Hard as It Looks
By Carl Pope, Contributor
Former executive director and chairman, Sierra Club
There's evidence all over the landscape that America's current problems for the most part have really easy solutions that have been blocked solely by the determination of one wing of our politics -- Tea Party Republicanism -- to hold solutions hostage.
GREEN
The Coal Stops Here
By Michael Brune, Contributor
Executive Director, The Sierra Club
I'm usually skeptical of absolutes. But not when it comes to coal.
GREEN
PHOTOS: Disturbing Anti-Coal Plant Ads Take Over D.C. Metro Station
By Joanna Zelman
CHICAGO
Governor Quinn OKs State's First Coal-To-Gas Plant
By Joseph Erbentraut
CHICAGO
Ordinance To Regulate Coal Plants Gets Long Hearing, No Vote
By Will Guzzardi
CHICAGO
Big Coal Feeding Frenzy In Springfield
By Jack Darin, Contributor
Director, Sierra Club, Illinois
As the clock winds down on the lame duck Illinois General Assembly, two out-of-state coal companies are asking to put ratepayers and businesses on the hook for a bailout of their risky projects.
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