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Why TVA Coal Investigation Matters: Interview with Former MSHA Investigator

Jeff Biggers | Posted 12.30.2008 | Green

Read More: Epa, Dirty Coal, Appalachia, Clean Coal, Mining, Big Coal, Clean Water, Tennessee, Kentucky, Clean Energy, Department of Energy, Coal Mining, Barack Obama, TVA Coal, Environmental Protection, Tony Oppegard, Green News
Jeff Biggers

When wildfires consume beautiful homes in California, it headlines the evening news. But when thousands of people go without water for weeks in Appalachia, it's not "newsworthy."

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Ash Christmas: Yesterday's TVA Coal Disaster is Toxic Wake Up Call to Nation

Jeff Biggers | Posted 12.23.2008 | Green

Read More: Epa, Carol Browner, Dirty Coal, Clean Coal, Big Coal, Environment, Stephen Chu, Coal Ash, Cancer, TVA Disaster, Barack Obama, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Coal ash contains mercury, lead, and arsenic. Nearly 800 Olympic-size swimming pools of that toxic mix are flowing into the waterways of Tennessee right now.

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Dear Carol Browner: Dirty Coal Will Turn Green Recovery Gray

Jeff Biggers | Posted 12.19.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Dirty Coal, Carol Browner, Coal, Mountaintop Removal, Stephen Chu, Big Coal, Climate Change, Barack Obama, Climate Destabilization, Clean Coal, Green Recovery, Futuregen, Green News
Jeff Biggers

The incoming Secretary of Energy will have the choice of committing billions of dollars to relaunch the shipwrecked FutureGen coal-fired plant, or allocating that amount of funding to launch a sustainable wind or solar clean jobs project in the same Illinois area.

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Why Raul Grijalva Matters at Interior: Black Mesa Nightmare Redux

Jeff Biggers | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Dirty Coal, Dine, Obama Cabinet, Coal, Raul Grijalva, Department of the Interior, Hopi, Environment, Environmental Protection, Big Coal, Native Americans, Navajo, Green, Strip Mining, Arizona, Barack Obama Transition, Politics News
Jeff Biggers

For the sake of a balanced approached to mining, indigenous rights, and environmental concerns, let's hope U.S. Representative Raul Grijalva takes the reins at the Department of the Interior.

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"This Is Reality" Takes On the Clean Coal Lie

Jake Brewer | Posted 12.05.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Nrdc, Obama Clean Coal, Karl Pope, Al Gore, Clean Coal, Big Coal, This Is Reality, Mccain Clean Coal, Sierra Club, Alliance for Climate Protection, Nwf, Green News
Jake Brewer

Big Coal has spent more than Tobacco did making us think cigarettes were ok, to make us believe the "Saudi Arabia of coal" - the United States - will lead a clean, prosperous future.

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Dear Al Gore: Speak Against the Rape of Coal River Mountain

Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.25.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Epa, Al Gore, Appalachia, Dirty Coal, Wind Energy, Big Coal, West Virginia, Clean Energy, Mountaintop Removal, Coal Mining, Coal, Barack Obama, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Dismissing an overwhelming majority of West Virginian support for clean energy, Governor Manchin granted a mining permit revision for proposed mountaintop removal of Coal River Mt.

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Obama Appointments: Time for a Coal-Onoscopy

Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Dirty Coal, President-Elect Barack Obama, Environmental Protection Agency, Coal, Mountaintop Removal, Msha, Labor Department, Office of Surface Mining, Department of Interior, Big Coal, Obama Transition, Department of Energy, Cabinet Appointments, Barack Obama, Green News
Jeff Biggers

If President-elect Obama is truly serious about affecting climate change... then we must end the appointment of coal and other extraction industry executives.

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Speak Now Against Bush's Great Coal Giveaway

Jeff Biggers | Posted 10.20.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, John McCain, Mountaintop Removal, Clean Coal, Big Coal, George W. Bush, Environment, Coal, Barack Obama, Green, Al Gore, Renewable Energy, Fossil Fuels, Climate Change, Global Warming, Green News
Jeff Biggers

After a year of record profits, coal operatives will receive nearly $2.8 billion in tax credits in the recent Wall Street bailout.

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The Banality of Clean Coal: Extraction Crimes

Jeff Biggers | Posted 10.08.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, John McCain, Mountaintop Removal, Carbon Emissions, Clean Coal, Alternative Energy, Big Coal, Energy Independence, King Coal, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Barack Obama, Coal, Green News
Jeff Biggers

In the 1970s, as the nation panicked, the coal industry announced a massive "clean coal" plan for coal-to-liquid gas conversion that would free us from foreign oil dependence. Sound familiar?

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Grilling Clean Coal at the Republican National Convention

Kevin Grandia | Posted 09.03.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Americas Power, Accce, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Clean Coal, Coal, Big Coal, Green News
Kevin Grandia

When it come to "clean coal," well-known writer Jeff Goodell put it best: "Clean coal is not an actual invention, a physical thing - it is an advert...

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Wake Up, Democrats: Send Dirty Coal Packing

Jeff Biggers | Posted 08.27.2008 | Green

Read More: Dirty Coal, Clean Energy, Democratic Convention, Big Coal, Coal, Denver, Barack Obama, Green News
Jeff Biggers

In one of the creepiest displays of propaganda this week in Denver, Dirty Coal certainly thinks the Democratic convention is for sale.

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McCain Would Raise Energy Bills for Ohio and all America

Joseph Romm | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Energy, Energy Efficiency, John McCain, Nuclear Power, Barack Obama, Mccain Energy Policy, Big Coal, 2008 Election, Coal, Politics News
Joseph Romm

What happens when your country is 50% dependent on coal, and you foolishly adopt McCain's energy and climate plans. Your electricity rates and bills will soar, for several reasons.

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Why Did Tom Friedman Misrepresent Al Gore's Challenge?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green

Read More: Al Gore, Tom Friedman, Solar, Dirty, Big Coal, Renewable Energy, Green, Energy, Coal, Thomas Friedman, New York Times, Al Gore Speech, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Tom Friedman distorted Al Gore's new energy challenge, which called for an energy policy based on 100 percent renewable sources, by including the role of coal. Isn't coal a nonrenewable fossil fuel?

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Coal to Liquid Plan Means a Kentucky Fried Earth

Kevin Grandia | Posted 07.15.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Kentucky Coal, Clean Coal, Big Coal, Environment, Climate Change, Coal, Global Warming, Green News
Kevin Grandia

At a time when we need to cut our emissions by at least 80 percent to curtail destructive climate change, the idea of nearly doubling global warming pollution from liquid coal ought to be tossed aside.

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What's Not The Matter With Kansas: Kate Sheppard Talks To Governor Kathleen Sebelius

Kate Sheppard | Posted 07.11.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Vice President, Barack Obama Vice President, Kathleen Sebelius, Big Coal, Obama Veepstakes, Coal, Kansas, Green News
Kate Sheppard

Governor Kathleen Sebelius has advocated for a major increase in the amount of wind power generated in Kansas, and pushed for massive reforms to the state's energy plan.

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Obama: A Mighty Wind Awaits You on Coal River Mountain

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.09.2008 | Green

Read More: Obama Appalachia, Appalachia, Renewable Energy, Coal, Big Coal, Climate Change, Energy, Barack Obama, Environment, Green News
Jeff Biggers

The Coal River Wind Project is the first community-based full scale assessment to directly counter the nightmare of mountaintop removal with a renewable energy alternative prior to the actual mining.

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Virginia is For Coal Lovers

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 06.30.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Clean Energy, Carbon Emissions, Coal, Alternative Energy, Energy Policy, Big Coal, Green News
Glenn Hurowitz

Virginia decided that what the world really needs is another coal-fired power plant with no controls on release of carbon dioxide, and so gave the Dominion Company the go-ahead to build one.

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"No, I'm Not From Here, But I Got Here Just as Soon as I Could"

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 06.24.2008 | Green

Read More: Appalachia Coal, Appalachia, Big Coal, Salamanders, Coal, Coal Mining, Strip Mining, Forests, Green News
Glenn Hurowitz

It's Eden in the Mountains here in Appalachian Virginia -- miles and miles of green, forested mountains in every direction. But these natural wonders are being devoured by the coal industry.

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Obama's Audacity in Appalachia

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Big Coal, Coal, Appalachia, Mountaintop Removal, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Race, Politics News
Jeff Biggers

The mountaintop removal issue transcends any narrow debate of jobs vs. trees by clearly showing that the environmental devastation has gone hand-in-hand with economic decline.

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Thomas Friedman's Green Pie in the Sky

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.12.2008 | Media

Read More: Thomas Friedman, Coal, Ethanol, Big Coal, Students, Green, Sustainability, Energy, Clean Coal, Media News
Jeff Biggers

There are some hard questions from the green movement -- especially on his disingenuous touting of "clean coal" -- that Thomas Friedman has been ducking for too long.

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One Hand Clapping ...

A. Siegel | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Climate Change, Coal, Global Warming, Big Coal, Politics News
A. Siegel

The Coal-Subsidy Act (fundamentally inadequate in face of the threat before us, before the US) seems unlikely to muster enough support to pass Congress.

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Global Warming Legislation: What Matters?

A. Siegel | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Principles, Lieberman-Warner, Climate Change, Global Warming, Ethics, Joe Lockhart, Global Warming Legislation, Coal Industry, Big Coal, Coal Subsidy Act, Coal Mining, Joe Lockhart Climate Change, Joe Lockhart Global Warming, Climate Change Legislation, Politics News
A. Siegel

Despite Joe Lockhart's and Barbara Boxer's enthusiasm, Lieberman-Warner is not the bill the nation (or the globe) requires.

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Agape and The New Climate Movement

Jonathan Isham, Jr. | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Al Gore Global Warming, Rush Limbaugh, Big Coal, Agape Love, Environmentalism, An Inconvenient Truth, Rush Limbaugh Global Warming, Gandhi, Coal, Coal Lobby, Agape, Nonviolence, Martin Luther King, Environmental Movement, Environment, Climate Change, Al Gore, Rush Limbaugh Environment, Global Warming, Satyagraha, Politics News
Jonathan Isham, Jr.

Unless climate activists affirm that they can love Rush Limbaugh, the coal lobby and other opponents of action to fight global warming, I fear that this movement will fail, with dire consequences for our planet.

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Another Coal-Sponsored Debate Without Questions on Global Warming

Laurie David | Posted 02.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Texas Primary, Texas Debate, Coal Industry, Big Coal, Climate Change, Texas Democratic Debate, Coal, Global Warming, Austin Texas Debate, Cnn Texas Democratic Debate, Politics News
Laurie David

What a surprise then that no questions were asked about global warming in the state that is the number one emitter of CO2 emissions when the debate was sponsored (once again) by polluting coal interests.

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Can Anyone Spell Cartel?

Carl Pope | Posted 02.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Coal, Big Coal, Natural Gas, Environment, Environmentalism, Fossil Fuel, Politics News
Carl Pope

Coal is sending not-so-subtle messages to gas producers that if they keep reminding the public of their product's advantages, they can expect some vicious responses.

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