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News from the Coal Bust A cascade of news shows that coal is on the ropes	David Roberts	05 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Remember, oh, about a year ago when every day brought a new article about the coming Coal Boom? How times change. A few pieces worth noting, just from the last few days: Mark Clayton covers the Coal Bust; Keith Johnson covers the latest blow to Big Coal, Missouri's Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. canning a planned 660MW coal plant due to skyrocketing costs; Matthew Brown at AP covers the suspension of a federal loan program for coal-fired plants i ...
Topics: coal, energy, Sierra Club (all these topics)

AEC chooses renewables and efficiency over coal	David Roberts	03 Mar 2008	Gristmill
New across the transom, from Sierra Club (no link yet): Today, Associated Electric Cooperative, one of the nation's largest and most respected rural electric cooperatives announced they are 'postponing indefinitely' their plans to build a massive new coal-fired power plant near Norborne in Northwest Missouri. Associated Electric will pursue wind, energy efficiency and natural gas instead. Sweet.
Topics: energy, coal, renewable energy (all these topics)

They Doth Protest Again U.K. activists will hold big protest at coal plant this summer		03 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 9:45 AM on 03 Mar 2008 Activists in the U.K. have announced that an annual weeklong climate camp, held last year to protest expansion of London's Heathrow Airport, will this summer be held at the site of a proposed coal-fired power plant in Kent. Which is not to say, of course, that they're not still pissed about Heathrow. source: The Guardian From the Archives Unfortunate ...
Topics: air travel, climate, coal, energy, England, grassroots activism, news (all these topics)

Coal gets emBiggered	David Roberts	03 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Righteous anger from author Jeff Biggers about the notion of "clean coal" -- or as I call it, "clean enemy of the human race." He's watching some of America's oldest mountains get blown up, landscapes scarred, communities immiserated ... and it doesn't look clean to him. We've noted here many times that new coal is not cheap. Capital costs have skyrocketed and the entire industry lives in mortal fear of impending carbon legislation. Imagine if ...
Topics: energy, coal (all these topics)

Oh hell yes	David Roberts	02 Mar 2008	Gristmill
More here.
Topics: coal, energy (all these topics)

ABEC ads in Ohio	David Roberts	29 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Speaking of fossil shenanigans, check out the blitz of advertising coal front group ABEC is running in Ohio in advance of the presidential primary there. I've been trying to pick the creepiest one, but's pretty tough. I think the two winners are the audio ad to your right and the print ad below the fold: For non-bullshit-laden analysis of the benefits of green ene ...
Topics: advertising, coal, elections, energy, messaging, Ohio, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

How will it end? Two chapters from the book of coal	Sean Casten	28 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Chapter 1, courtesy of our friends at Greenwire ($ub req'd): The coal industry is spending tens of millions of dollars to cement support among members of Congress and the top presidential candidates in an effort to fight critics of coal-fired power and is also appealing directly to the voters those politicians need. Why, you ask? Turn to Chapter 2, this time from The New York Times: 'Stymied in their plans to build coal-burning power plants, American utilit ...
Topics: coal, energy, lobbying, natural gas, politics (all these topics)

Don't get burned The dangers of funding new coal-fired plants	Adam Browning	28 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Indeed. This paper (PDF) on the risks of investing in new coal-fired power plants is worth reading.
Topics: coal, energy, investing (all these topics)

Laundered coal by any other name kills the climate just the same Is 'ethanol' short for 'laundered coal'?	JMG	27 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Wow! Now that the caucuses are safely behind us, an Iowa paper notices that "ethanol" is how corporations and troglodyte utilities pronounce "laundered coal," AKA, The Enemy of the Human Race.Specifically, 300 tons a day, per plant. Here's an Orwell-Award winning statement for you:Officials with Alliant Energy, which has proposed a new coal-fired plant in Marshalltown, told the Iowa Utilities Board recently that if Iowans want renewable energy, they will ne ...
Topics: coal, energy, renewable energy (all these topics)

Wildcatting the wind in Texas Conventional energy vs. renewable energy	Joseph Romm	27 Feb 2008	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. ----- As all eyes turn toward Texas this week in advance of the Democratic primary, we will see a state that is beginning its transition to a new energy economy. Texas is grappling with a shift the entire nation faces -- and as usual, it's doing it on a big scale. When it comes to energy and to carbon emissions, Texas is a place of super ...
Topics: coal, energy, nuclear power, oil, renewable energy, Texas, wind power (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	26 Feb 2008	Gristmill
'Anybody can talk and beat up coal: They don't like it; it's dirty; it does this and this. But I can assure you, they're not going to turn their lights or their demand for energy off.' -- Gov. Joe Manchin of West Virginia
Topics: coal, energy, West Virginia (all these topics)

Mr. Reid, meet Mr. Godwin Reid makes good point about coal with bad analogy about Hitler	David Roberts	25 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Oy, this is frustrating. Last week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid gave an extraordinary speech to open the Renewable Energy World Conference in Las Vegas. He talked up the opportunities of a green economy, laid out concrete policies for getting there, and blasted the coal industry for standing in the way. Unfortunately, just before the speech he gave an interview to the Las Vegas Sun in which he accused the coal industry of using "the old Hitler lie: when yo ...
Topics: coal, economy, energy, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

The Clean's List Governors are of varying minds when it comes to clean energy		25 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 3:50 PM on 25 Feb 2008 At the annual winter meeting of the National Governors Association, which concluded Monday, state leaders revisited a previously launched initiative called "Securing a Clean Energy Future" -- and struggled with the reality that "clean energy" has very different meanings to different states. "Clean coal," in particular, was boosted by coal states and eyed w ...
Topics: coal, energy, news, politics, state politics (all these topics)

NBC on ABEC	David Roberts	25 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Via ThinkProgress comes this segment on NBC Nightly News: Obviously I am totally unable to judge these things with any sort of objectivity. All I see is a huge, wealthy, politically connected industry using propaganda techniques to push a dirty facility on a community that is so poor and desperate that it's willing to sell its children's health for a short-term economic boost. Naturally NBC's not going to say that. Still, they do a fairly decent job putting the re ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Massey incest redux	David Roberts	22 Feb 2008	Gristmill
So, remember how two justices on the W. Va. Supreme Court have recused themselves from the Massey case? One was photographed frolicking on vacation with Massey CEO Don Blankenship on the French Riviera. The other has publicly criticized Blankenship. The latter fellow said that a third judge -- Justice Brent Benjamin, who received $3.5 million in support from Don Blankenship in his 2004 election -- should also recuse himself. Well, Benjamin has offered an answer: scre ...
Topics: business, coal, energy, litigation, politics, shenanigans, West Virginia (all these topics)

It's the economics, stupid How to make the case against coal	Sean Casten	22 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Synapse Energy Economics has recently put together a report for NRDC that ought to be required reading for anyone who objects to dirty or expensive power (e.g., coal-fired, central station power). The report, entitled 'The Risks of Participating in the AMPGS Coal Plant' (PDF), is ostensibly only about a specific 960MW plant that AMP wants to build in Ohio. But their report speaks volumes about the larger economic and environmental challenges to coal-fired central station ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy, energy efficiency, renewable energy (all these topics)

Alternate futures Two huge power plants offer different paths forward	David Roberts	22 Feb 2008	Gristmill
In Sweetwater, Texas, a company called Tenaska has applied to build what will be the nation's first bona fide "clean coal" plant -- an IGCC plant that will capture and sequester CO2 emissions. (Said emissions will be used to pump more oil out of the Permian Basin oil fields, which will then be burned and create more CO2, but who's counting?) The 600MW plant is projected to be completed in 2014. Meanwhile, Spanish engineering firm Abengoa has signed a deal w ...
Topics: Arizona, carbon sequestration, coal, energy, renewable energy, solar voltaic power, Texas (all these topics)

Quick, change more lightbulbs! China kicks off the coal-to-liquids rush	David Roberts	21 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Looks like China is about to uncork the CTL genie, opening a plant to produce liquid fuel from coal. This won't be the last: A study last year by the Chinese Academy of Sciences said: 'Production of liquid fuels from coal is practically the most feasible route to cope with the dilemma in oil supply.' It concluded: 'Establishing large-scale CTL [coal-to-liquids] plants on the pitheads of several main coalfields is feasible and competitive when oil price is well o ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, China, coal, coal-to-liquid fuel, energy (all these topics)

Couldn't happen to a nicer enemy of the human race Another bad week for coal	David Roberts	21 Feb 2008	Gristmill
The following post was first published on Passing Through, The Nation's guest blog, where I will be posting all month. Regular readers of Grist know that coal is the enemy of the human race. They may also know that coal is on the ropes and, despite its recent PR blitz, in something of panic. Let's take a look at some news from just the past week or so. A new report from gas, coal, and power consulting firm Wood MacKensie says that "the rate of coal plant cance ...
Topics: energy, coal (all these topics)

South Florida <del Twenty-seven yoots arrested protesting construction of <del	David Roberts	20 Feb 2008	Gristmill
A while back, Al Gore wondered publicly why young people aren't out protesting in front of coal plants. Well, here you go: On Monday, a group of young people chained themselves together to prevent construction of a South Florida power plant -- 27 of them were arrested. [UPDATE: According to Matt in comments, it was a gas plant, not a coal plant. Should have read closer.] Those Palm Beach cops don't look very friendly (pictures from Rising Tide): That takes ...
Topics: coal, energy, Florida, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

Massey incest Mining CEO so insinuated in W. Va. politics that they can't find judges to hear his case	David Roberts	20 Feb 2008	Gristmill
So, you may recall that loathsome mountaintop-removal mining outfit Massey was hit with a $50 million judgment a while back. They appealed it up to the W. Va. Supreme Court, which overturned it. Later, it turned out that Massey CEO Don Blankenship (an evil bastard) had been photographed frolicking with one of the judges in Monte Carlo, accompanied by, um, female consorts. So that judge dropped out of the case. Now the WSJ brings word that another judge is recusing ...
Topics: business, coal, energy, litigation, mining, politics, West Virginia (all these topics)

Let buildings heat and cool themselves How to kill coal in 10 years	Jon Rynn	20 Feb 2008	Gristmill
We know that coal is the enemy of the human race, what with carbon emissions, deadly air pollution, and unsafe and destructive mining practices. The supply of coal is becoming more problematic as well: recently, a Wall Street Journal article described a 'coal-price surge,' and Richard Heinberg has warned that coal may peak much sooner than most people expect. So what's to like? Not much. But since coal-fired plants provide almost half of our electricity, we can't ge ...
Topics: coal, energy, energy at home, energy efficiency, green building, placemaking, renewable energy, urban planning (all these topics)

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 ...
Topics: climate, coal, elections, energy, politics, presidential race 08, Virginia (all these topics)

This is how dumb they think you are Walker/Cat's coal-happy ads in rural West Virginia	David Roberts	19 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Prompted by Pompey Road in comments, I went looking for some commercials that have been running in rural West Virginia, put out by a company called Walker/Cat that makes heavy machinery for coal operations. (George W. Bush spoke at their Belle plant in 2002.) Turns out they're right here. They have to be seen to be believed. Here, Miss Bug explains that heck no, blowing up mountains, dumping the rubble in streams, and covering the result with a thin layer of soil and ...
Topics: coal, energy, messaging, mining, West Virginia (all these topics)

In case you're wondering	David Roberts	19 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Yes, Thursday night's Democratic debate will once again be sponsored by the coal industry.
Topics: coal, elections, energy, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

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