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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.
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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.
GREEN
Coal-State Lawmakers Want To Ignore This Danger
By
Matt Sledge
WORLDPOST
World Bank Awards $3.75 Billion to Coal Company in South Africa
By
Erich Pica
, Contributor
President, Friends of the Earth and FOE Action
What would you do with $3.75 billion -- that is, if you had to use it to fund a project that alleviates poverty and mitigates climate change, and not to, say, purchase a personal tropical island?
WORLDPOST
Energy Lessons for Europe and the U.S. from the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo
By
Charles D. Ferguson
, Contributor
While feeling angry is justified in a crisis, the governments would be best advised not to get mad at Russia but to get more secure in energy supplies and smarter in energy usage.
WORLDPOST
Putting America on a Carbon Diet
By
Gillian Caldwell
, Contributor
Executive Director of Global Witness
We need to start a carbon diet, and not let the US reach for that donut. Delaying serious short-term cuts in carbon emissions is like saying we will start our diet next January. Why not this January?
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