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Double the trouble
EPA reveals almost twice as many dangerous coal ash dumps as previously known 1
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks agoThe 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.
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Always look on the bright side of life
The faint silver lining of the Waxman-Markey clean-energy-mandates cloud 4
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
The Waxman-Markey bill would require that 20% of the nation's power supply come from clean energy (15%) and efficiency (5%) by 2020. But wouldn't the U.S. have reached those mild targets without any government intervention, through natural market growth? Would the bill's mandates have any effect at all?
A spate of recent analyses have argued that the bill's Combined Efficiency and Renewable Energy Standard, or CERES, would induce no new deployment of renewable energy over and above the business-as-usual scenario. In other words, they might as well not have bothered.
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Southern Utility Blues, part two
Southern Company, coal plants, and the latest gizmo 0
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago
Politically connected utilities in the south and midwest want the route of least resistence on climate change, and that's "clean coal."
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