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 Stories About: coal AND energy AND mining AND Virginia
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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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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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