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Another coal plant bites the dust 1
Posted 1 day, 8 hours ago Minnesota and South Dakota residents stopped a coal-fired power plant project and prevented about 4.7 million tons of CO2, or the equivalent of the pollution from roughly 670,000 cars, from entering the atmosphere every year.
Watch a movie, fight mountaintop mining

Host a viewing party for the must-see new film “Coal Country” 2
Posted 2 weeks, 2 days ago The powerful new documentary “Coal Country” exposes the devastating effects of mountaintop-removal coal mining. See the movie before the general public does by offering to host a viewing party in your home.
Shout Shout, Let It All Out

Mountaintop Removal Hearings Get Tense 2
Posted 3 weeks, 2 days ago
TOO COAL FOR SCHOOL

Dirty energy fuels college campuses 3
Posted 4 weeks, 1 day ago Many of us look back in disbelief at some of the things we did in college. We’re seeing that same sense of disbelief from current college students when they learn that their campuses are still powered by coal.
National Day of Action Against Coal 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago The first three days of this week are seeing a slew of activities taking on coal.
EPA - Now is the time

Coal’s Ash is On the Line 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago
EPA revamping rules for toxic releases from coal plants 0
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on Tuesday that it plans to revise the existing standards for wastewater discharges from coal-fired power plants. The news came one day after three environmental groups announced they intend to sue the agency for failing to properly regulate such discharges.
Stop In the Name of Law

EPA says pending mountaintop-removal permits would likely violate Clean Water Act 9
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Very big news out of the Environmental Protection Agency this morning: The agency has determined that all 79 mountaintop-removal mining permits submitted to it for review by the Army Corps of Engineers would violate the Clean Water Act.
sweeping ACCCE clean

Dominoes Keep Falling for Clean Coal Coalition 1
Posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Only a week after the nation's third largest utility, Duke Energy, announced it was terminating its membership in the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), citing disagreement over clean energy legislation, another company has followed suit.
Double the trouble

EPA reveals almost twice as many dangerous coal ash dumps as previously known 1
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released information showing there are 584 coal ash dump sites across the country -- almost twice as many as previously identified.
the little engine that couldn't

Persistence stops a train—and global warming slowed 6
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
A massive new rail line planned to move millions of tons of low-grade coal from northeastern Wyoming to the Midwest has been stopped.
Sierra Club calls for functional global climate solution... sort of

Carl Pope says 350 ppm not strong enough, endorses carbon pricing and global tax & dividend! 0
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
coal creeps up

The clock has started ticking on mountaintop removal mining permits 0
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
We are told that the Environmental Protection Agency may start approving more than 80 new mountaintop removal coal mining permits within the next month -- or even sooner.
Forest gumption

New Obama forest plan leaves roadless rule intact 5
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack laid out a broad vision for the U.S. Forest Service on Friday, promising strong conservation measures and an emphasis on restoring damaged forests.
VICTORY

Dynegy out of the new coal business 0
Posted 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Coal is again proving to be a bad investment. Dynegy announced yesterday that the company is essentially going to lose $100 million as it sells its portion of the Texas Sandy Creek coal plant back to LS Power. But they decided a $100 million loss was better than continuing to be involved in the expensive and risky project.
Don't get burned

JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon: Time to walk the talk on coal 0
Posted 3 months ago
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon professes profound concern for our future. He waxes eloquent talking about how JP Morgan Chase is committed to investments in clean energy. But Sierra Club’s diligent researchers have pulled back the curtain and uncovered that his rhetoric doesn’t match his company’s action.
taking a gander at clean energy

Michigan to Granholm: We want clean energy 0
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
Yesterday in Lansing, Michigan, more than 500 activists from all corners of the state lent their voices to a call for a massive investment in clean energy and moving the state beyond coal.
not your grandfather's climate bill

The Climate Bill Shouldn’t Give Coal a Free Pass 0
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Now that historic U.S. climate legislation – the American Clean Energy and Security Act – (ACES), has passed the House of Representatives and the Senate is debating its version of energy/climate legislation, let’s talk about what must be fixed before it gets to the President’s desk.
A Burning Concern

North Carolina governor calls for better regulation of coal ash dumps 0
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue (D) has endorsed legislation that would increase oversight of the state's coal ash dumps, the massive surface impoundments that power companies use to store the toxic waste left over after burning coal.
giving coal the cold shoulder

Stopping Blackstone Coal 1
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Last week when we hit the 100th coal-fired plant abandoned or prevented in the U.S., someone asked me, “What’s next?” My answer came quickly: “It’s time to stop the next 100.”