By Josh
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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 Las Vegas, off of I-15, is the 48-year-old Reid ... - Enough cheap coal: Using public lands for the public interest
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: Peabody Coal, which can keep bidding at its... - How Peabody gets dirt-cheap land and the rest of us get a gigaton of carbon pollution
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 “auction” for 721 million tons of taxpayer-owned c... - Romney opposes mercury rule, beclowns himself again
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 toxic power plant emissions in their tracks. I... - Energy companies, seeing a greener future, are losing their faith in coal
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 blindness to change that might undermine their do...
