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Mountain Madness
New coal plant approved in Virginia, may fuel mountaintop-removal mining |
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26 Jun 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 11:53 AM on 26 Jun 2008 An embattled $1.8 billion coal plant slated for Wise County, Va., was granted pollution permits Wednesday by a state regulatory board, allowing construction to proceed. The company that will be building the 585-megawatt plant, Dominion Resources, promised local officials it would only source coal from within Virginia; that move is expected to fuel increased mountaintop-remo ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, coal, energy, news, Virginia (all these topics) |
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Virginia is for coal lovers
State illegally approves new coal-fired power plant |
Glenn Hurowitz |
26 Jun 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Update: The permit that was approved this week by the state Air Pollution Control Board does not contain the 'out clause' for mercury emissions. Information from an SELC statement was incorrect, and they have apologized. Under heavy pressure from lobbyists for Dominion Virginia Power, Virginia announced yesterday that it will permit the construction of a new coal-fired power plant, even though doing so clearly violates the law. Just days after NASA's James Hans ... |
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| Topics: coal, energy, fossil fuels, grassroots activism, state politics, Virginia (all these topics) |
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Making a mountain into a coal hill
Virginia's disappearing mountain Eden |
Glenn Hurowitz |
24 Jun 2008 |
Gristmill |
| As I reported last week, I'm in Appalachia, Va. to attend a hearing by the Virginia Air Resources Board about whether or not Virginia will permit Dominion Power to build a dirty, coal-fired power plant. It's Eden in the Mountains here -- miles and miles of green, forested mountains in every direction. Inside the forests, it's even better. My wife and I went on a hike through old growth hemlock groves (and did a trail-cleaning service project in the nearby Jefferson Na ... |
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| Topics: coal, energy, fossil fuels, grassroots activism, Virginia (all these topics) |
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Calamity Kaine
Virginia Gov, possible veep, afraid of Big Coal |
Glenn Hurowitz |
17 Jun 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine set a new standard for politician mealy-mouthedness with a letter to his Virginia Air Board (tip of the hat to Raising Kaine for digging this one up). Although he asserts that his letter isn't about any particular decision, everyone outside the governor's office knows that the letter is about one thing: The proposed massive coal-fired power plant being planned for Wise County, Virginia. His bureaucratic opacity (PDF) is sure to be taught in gov ... |
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| Topics: climate, coal, energy, politics, presidential race 08, Virginia (all these topics) |
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Weasel of the week
Tim Kaine burns national ambitions in coal furnace |
Glenn Hurowitz |
19 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Virginia's Democratic governor Tim Kaine, often mentioned as a possible vice presidential nominee, seems to be flushing his ambitions for national office down the toilet by actively working to build yet another coal-fired power plant for one of his biggest campaign donors. Tim Kaine. Photo: virginia.gov Kaine has tried to present himself as a green, forward-thinking governor by proposing a 'Virginia Energy Plan' he claimed would reduce greenhouse-gas emis ... |
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| Topics: climate, coal, elections, energy, politics, presidential race 08, Virginia (all these topics) |
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Dominion Power's dirty plans for Virginia
Mike Tidwell speaks out in the WaPo against coal |
Joseph Romm |
28 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Mike Tidwell, director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, regularly has me on his Earthbeat radio show, so I'm returning the favor with this great letter to the editor he had in the Washington Post yesterday: Fact: Virginia gets less than 1 percent of its electricity from 'green' sources such as the wind or the sun. Fact: Virginia ranks 38th among U.S. states in energy efficiency. Fact: Climate change is real, and fossil fuel substitutes are needed, accor ... |
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| Topics: coal, energy, mining, Virginia (all these topics) |
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I do not think that word means what you think it means
Forest Service objects to Va. 'clean coal' plant that would be one of state's biggest polluters |
David Roberts |
13 Dec 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I should have added this to my account of state-level coal backlash:The U.S. Forest Service is warning Virginia environmental officials that pollution from a $1.6 billion coal-fired power plant proposed for Wise County would violate federal clean-air laws.In a letter to the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, the supervisor of the Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina said the plant proposed by Dominion Virginia Power would pump enough sulfur dioxide into ... |
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| Topics: Virginia, coal, energy (all these topics) |
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Moving Mountains
Mountaintop-removal mining is devastating Appalachia, but residents are fighting back |
Erik Reece |
16 Feb 2006 |
Main Dish |
| This article was originally published in Orion Magazine. Not since the glaciers pushed toward these ridgelines a million years ago have the Appalachian Mountains been as threatened as they are today. But the coal-extraction process decimating this landscape, known as mountaintop removal, has generated little press beyond the region. A mountaintop no more. Photo: Viv ... |
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| Topics: Appalachia, coal, energy, environmental justice, health, Kentucky, mining, Poverty and the Environment, Virginia, West Virginia (all these topics) |
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