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A tragicomic tale of coal industry incompetence and disregard

A tragicomic tale of coal industry ... Posted by admin in Article, Coal, Indoor Environment on 07 20th, 2012 | No Comments

Let me share an remarkable story with you. It’s about coal: the people it harms, the arrogance the industry has developed over years of being coddled, and the way it’s all starting to fall apart. Up to the northeast of...

Enough cheap coal: Using public lands for the public interest

Enough cheap coal: Using public lan... Posted by admin in Article, Climate & Energy, Coal, Infrastructure on 06 25th, 2012 | No Comments

I hope everyone read Joe Smyth’s post about the upcoming “auction” of 721 million tons of publicly owned Powder River Basin (PRB) coal. “Auction” goes in scare quotes because there’s only one bidder:...

How Peabody gets dirt-cheap land and the rest of us get a gigaton of carbon pollution

How Peabody gets dirt-cheap land an... Posted by admin in Article, Coal, Infrastructure, Living Green on 06 24th, 2012 | No Comments

A version of this article originally appeared on Climate Progress . The BLM lets Peabody lease public land for next to nothing and strip-mine it for coal. On Thursday, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is scheduled to hold an...

Romney opposes mercury rule, beclowns himself again

Romney opposes mercury rule, beclow... Posted by admin in Article, Climate & Energy, Coal, Environmental Issues, Indoor Environment, Pollution on 06 20th, 2012 | No Comments

Photo by Austen Hufford . Today marks a symbolic vote in the Senate: Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) is putting forward a Congressional Review Act resolution [PDF] that would stop the EPA’s impending standards on mercury and other...

Energy companies, seeing a greener future, are losing their faith in coal

Energy companies, seeing a greener ... Posted by admin in Climate & Energy, Coal, Indoor Environment, Living Green, News on 06 4th, 2012 | No Comments

The stuff fortunes were made of. Tallying the predictions of energy industry executives is an interesting exercise. Like any dominant business sector, the energy industry’s predictive powers are limited by one key damper: a...

The carbon consequences of Northwest coal exports

The carbon consequences of Northwes... Posted by admin in Article, Coal, Living Green on 05 23rd, 2012 | No Comments

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Peabody Coal pays U.S. taxpayers $1.11 per ton of coal, sells it to China for $123

Peabody Coal pays U.S. taxpayers $1... Posted by admin in Article, Coal, Environmental Issues, Infrastructure on 05 18th, 2012 | No Comments

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Why are U.S. taxpayers subsidizing coal mining?

Why are U.S. taxpayers subsidizing ... Posted by admin in Article, Climate & Energy, Climate Change, Coal, Environmental Issues, Indoor Environment, Infrastructure, Pollution on 05 17th, 2012 | No Comments

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Big Coal’s new anti-Obama ad reeks of desperation

Big Coal’s new anti-Obama ad reek... Posted by admin in Article, Coal, Environmental Issues, Pollution on 05 17th, 2012 | No Comments

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My Mother’s Day wish: Clean air for kids

My Mother’s Day wish: Clean air f... Posted by admin in Article, Climate & Energy, Coal, Environmental Issues, Infrastructure on 05 13th, 2012 | No Comments

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U.S. coal lobbies frantically to save its doomed-ass self

U.S. coal lobbies frantically to sa... Posted by admin in Article, Coal, Environmental Issues on 05 8th, 2012 | No Comments

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Coal dependent: Pacific Northwest activists fight new export terminals

Coal dependent: Pacific Northwest a... Posted by admin in Article, Coal, Environmental Issues, Indoor Environment, Living Green on 05 5th, 2012 | No Comments

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Fighting coal export terminals: It matters

Fighting coal export terminals: It ... Posted by admin in Article, Coal, Indoor Environment, Infrastructure, Living Green on 05 1st, 2012 | No Comments

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U.S. coal is on the decline, and utility execs know it

U.S. coal is on the decline, and ut... Posted by admin in Article, Climate & Energy, Coal on 04 30th, 2012 | No Comments

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New climate strategy: Buy the damn coal and keep it in the ground

New climate strategy: Buy the damn ... Posted by admin in Article, Coal, Infrastructure, Living Green on 04 13th, 2012 | No Comments

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The only good coal is coal left in the ground

The only good coal is coal left in ... Posted by admin in Article, Climate Change, Coal, Infrastructure on 04 12th, 2012 | No Comments

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Clean coal nonsense: New industry ad claims ‘real environmental progress’

Clean coal nonsense: New industry a... Posted by admin in Article, Coal, Environmental Issues, Infrastructure on 04 5th, 2012 | No Comments

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Black people get asthma so everybody else can get cheap power

Black people get asthma so everybod... Posted by admin in Article, Climate & Energy, Coal, Environmental Issues on 03 30th, 2012 | No Comments

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Meet Mr. Coal Guy: He’ll say anything to make you think coal is safe

Meet Mr. Coal Guy: He’ll say anyt... Posted by admin in Coal, Environmental Issues, Infrastructure on 03 27th, 2012 | No Comments

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Critical List: Gulf of Mexico dolphins have serious health problems; tweeting from the ocean bottom

Critical List: Gulf of Mexico dolph... Posted by admin in Climate & Energy, Coal, Energy, Environmental Issues, Infrastructure, News on 03 26th, 2012 | No Comments

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