Coal Mining

The True Face of Mean Coal

David Sassoon | Posted 01.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Mean Coal, Global Warming, Tennessee Coal Ash, Clean Coal, TVA Spill, Big Coal, The New York Times, New York Times, TVA Disaster, Coal, Coal Mining, TVA Coal, Tva, Green News
David Sassoon

There are 1300 hundred dumps across the country similar to the one in Tennessee. It's become painfully clear yet again that there's no such thing as clean coal, just Mean Coal.

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Rights for Nature: In PA's Coal Region, A Radical Approach to Conservation Takes Root

Kate Beale | Posted 01.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Faith and Politics, Environmental Policy, Evangelical Climate Initiative, Tamaqua, Community Legal Defense Fund, Corporate Personhood, Evangelicals Environment, Pollution, Dick Cheney, Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, Legal Rights, Green Fatigue, Environment, Environmental Law, Coal Mining, Vatican New Sins, Green News
Kate Beale

Seeking legal rights for nature appears pragmatic: just witness how corporations have flourished enjoying the same legal status. At first glance it seems counterintuitive, but perhaps it shouldn't.

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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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Appointing Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers as Energy Secretary Would Truly Be "Change We Can Grieve In"

Matt Wasson | Posted 12.10.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Energy, Obama Transition, Coal Mining, Coal, Green, Green News
Matt Wasson

UPDATE: Obama appoints Steven Chu to Energy - it's enough to make a person feel sheepish about the snarky title of this post. Steven Chu is an exce...

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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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The Oxymoron of Clean Coal (Joe Biden Had it Right Before He Had it Wrong.)

Simran Sethi | Posted 10.06.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Sweden, Flue Gas Treatment, John McCain, Air Particulates, Iceland, Goethermal Energy, Wind Energy, Carbon Emissions, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Vp Debate, Pushker Kharecha, Acid Rain, Joe Biden, Gasification, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Offshore Drilling, Geothermal Extraction, Renewable Resources, Solar Energy, Carbon Storage and Capture, Carbon Sequestration, Mercury, James Hansen, Clean Coal, Ethanol, Department of Energy, Coal Mining, Simran Sethi, Brazi, Green News
Simran Sethi

Clean coal is a lie. The catch-all term is used by politicians and coal advocates alike to lull the American public into complacency.

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Both Ways on Coal? Obama, McCain Embrace "Clean Coal," Not Mountaintop Removal

The Daily Green | Posted 09.22.2008 | Green

Read More: Obama Energy Policy, Energy, John McCain, Clean Coal, Mining, Mccain Energy Policy, Mountaintop Removal, Coal, Coal Mining, Barack Obama, Green News

In a story, fittingly, featured in the Charleston Gazette, in West Virginia's coal country, about people are puzzling over how John McCain and Barack ...

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King Coal: Willing To Kill For Kilowatts

Kerry Trueman | Posted 07.26.2008 | Green

Read More: Crandall Canyon Mining Disaster, Genwal Resources, Richard Stickler, Retreat Mining, Bob Murray, Coal Mining, Msha, Green News
Kerry Trueman

What we've got here is a government agency and a corporation who shared the mindset that a miner's life has less value than the coal that lies so deep that you're courting disaster to extract it.

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With Gas Pump Crunch, Is Oil Shale to the 'Rescue'?

Bill Chameides | Posted 07.02.2008 | Green

Read More: Oil Prices, Oil Shale, Gas Prices, Mountain States, Environment, Climate Change, Coal, Coal Mining, Global Warming, Green News
Bill Chameides

U.S. shale deposits are enormous. But we should take a long, hard look at environmental costs before going down the road of harnessing those deposits.

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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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As Oil Rises, Nations Revive Coal Mining

NY Times | Posted 05.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil Prices, Coal, Crude Oil, Crude Oil Prices, Coal Mining, Oil, Business News

These rugged green mountains, once home to one of Asia's most productive coal regions, are littered with abandoned mines and decaying towns -- backwat...

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What Should Obama Do In West Virginia and Kentucky?

David Roberts | Posted 05.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Energy, West Virginia, Kentucky, Sustainability, Hillary Clinton, Coal, Coal Mining, Barack Obama, Politics News
David Roberts

He could defy conventional wisdom by treating rural white voters like adults, helping them plan a real path to economic health and sustainability rather than telling them fairy tales about coal.

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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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Beyond Race: Obama's Green Opportunity

Jeff Biggers | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Appalachia, Pennsylvania, New Green Deal, Coal Industry, West Virginia, Race, 2008 Election, Coal Mining, Barack Obama, Politics News
Jeff Biggers

Obama should shatter artificial racial boundaries by proposing a New "Green" Deal to revamp Appalachian region and bridge a growing chasm between bitterly divided Democrats.

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Hillary Clinton Equivocates on Mountaintop-Removal Mining

David Roberts | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Clinton, Coal Mining, Coal, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Politics News
David Roberts

Clinton was asked about mountaintop-removal mining in an interview on West Virginia public radio this morning. Her answer was, in my eyes, terribly disappointing.

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4,000 Mine Safety Violations Ignored On Bush Administration Watch

Charleston (W.V.) Gazette | Ken Ward Jr | Posted 01.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Department of Labor, Richard Stickler, Mine Safety Violations, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Coal Mining, Mine Safety, Msha, Politics News

Federal regulators have allowed mine operators to avoid fines for thousands of health and safety citations, despite a federal law that requires moneta...

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The Coal Truth on Candidates

Jeff Biggers | Posted 01.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: King Coal, Appalachia, 2008 Election, Coal Mining, Coal, Big Coal, Politics News
Jeff Biggers

The Democratic candidates for president have bought into the same sham of coal's reemergence as a "clean" source of energy for the future as their Republican counterparts.

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King Coal's Mountain Redoubt

Carl Pope | Posted 11.15.2007 | Politics

Read More: Nevada, Coal Rush, Stopping Coal Power Plants, Coal Plants, Nevada Clean Energy Coalition, Governor Gibbons, Sierra Pacific Power, Coal Mining in Nevada, Coal, Coal Mining, Environment America, Politics News
Carl Pope

Coal plants are being sold to the American people like sub-prime mortgages. Their economics will shift dramatically in a few years, and ordinary customers will get stuck with unaffordable energy costs.

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Max Follmer

Sticking With The Story: How One Newspaper Didn't Stop Digging

HuffingtonPost.com | Max Follmer | Posted 11.06.2007 | Home

Read More: Crandall Canyon, Mine Safety, Charleston Gazette, Sago Mine, Coal Mining, Mining, Home News

As Congress takes another look at the safety issues plaguing the nation's coal mines, a documentary team from PBS' Expose series is shining a spotligh...

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