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Author |
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Coal is the enemy of the human race: Human race figures it out edition Bad news abounds for Big Coal |
David Roberts |
18 Oct 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: coal, energy (all these topics) |
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Just in time for Halloween A scary pro-coal op-ed |
JMG |
16 Oct 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: coal, energy (all these topics) |
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Quote of the day
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David Roberts |
14 Oct 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: coal, energy (all these topics) |
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Planet of the AEP Utility company AEP to pay billions in acid-rain settlement |
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09 Oct 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 6:45 AM on 09 Oct 2007 The utility company American Electric Power has agreed to pay some $4.6 billion to reduce acid-rain-causing emissions from some of its power plants in the U.S. Northeast, as well as $60 million to clean up specific waterways and parks, and $15 million in civil penalties, all to settle a long-running lawsuit brought by the U.S. EPA, nine states, and over a dozen environmental groups in ... |
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| Topics: coal, litigation, news, United States (all these topics) |
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Somebody up there loves me Rocky rocks against coal |
David Roberts |
08 Oct 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: coal, energy, music, Utah (all these topics) |
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Nice electrical power you got there. Shame if something happened to it. The coal industry's extortion is on increasingly obvious display |
David Roberts |
05 Oct 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: coal, energy (all these topics) |
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Coal-solar hybrid It doesn't make sense -- and that's the point |
Adam Browning |
30 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: coal, electric vehicles, energy, hybrids, solar voltaic power (all these topics) |
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Coal is the enemy of the human race: New Republic edition Editorial questions the sequestration promise |
David Roberts |
25 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, energy (all these topics) |
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A little karate On electricity deregulation |
Sean Casten |
20 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: business, coal, electricity grid, energy (all these topics) |
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Why coal is the enemy of the human race: Reason no. 836,372 Mercury moves from coal plant to fish dinner as fast as its name implies |
JMG |
19 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: coal, energy, fishing, food, mercury, toxics (all these topics) |
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The Coal Nine Yards Coal industry asks for still more handouts, and Washington lends an ear |
Brian Beutler |
19 Sep 2007 |
Muckraker |
| We're gradually learning how the U.S. government will approach our country's energy needs in the carbon-constrained future -- and if you were envisioning a future free of mining the earth for dirty energy, you should probably check the optimism. Same coal, same coal. Photo: iStockphoto Two important hearings on Capitol Hill earlier this month strongly indicated that we're stuc ... |
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| Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, coal-to-liquid fuel, Muckraker, politics (all these topics) |
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EPA to Supreme Court: Take a hike! EPA gives permit to new Utah coal plant; Waxman cries foul |
Brian Beutler |
19 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: coal, energy, litigation, politics, US EPA, Utah (all these topics) |
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Put the Cure in Mercury Mercury contamination in fish declines when emissions go down |
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18 Sep 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 2:41 PM on 18 Sep 2007 Mercury contamination of waterways and marine life doesn't have to be an ongoing problem -- all we have to do is limit industrial mercury emissions. Easy! After a seven-year experiment in a Canada lake, researchers publishing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences concluded that mercury concentrations in fish would decline relatively quickly if their ecosystem w ... |
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| Topics: coal, fishing, food, health, news, toxics (all these topics) |
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Tackling climate: Beltway tone-deafness edition On subsidizing 'green' energy R&D |
Brian Beutler |
17 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, coal, energy, innovation, politics (all these topics) |
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Ecomagination and coal As long as GE funds coal, its net impact is far from green |
David Roberts |
17 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: business, climate, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, greening biz operations (all these topics) |
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Cuomo arigato! New York attorney general subpoenas energy companies over disclosure of coal-plant risks |
David Roberts |
17 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: business, coal, energy, politics (all these topics) |
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The Investor Class Owns the Means of Reduction New York state investigates power companies' emissions on behalf of shareholders |
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17 Sep 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 6:23 AM on 17 Sep 2007 New York state used a new tactic last week to try to prompt coal-fired power plants to clean up their climate changing emissions: concern for shareholders. State attorney general Andrew Cuomo sent letters and subpoenas to five coal-lovin' power companies on Friday requesting internal documents and questioning if investors had been given ... |
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| Topics: climate, coal, New York, news (all these topics) |
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Black Lung Is the New Black Rates of black lung disease double in a decade |
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14 Sep 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 5:01 PM on 14 Sep 2007 Rates of black lung disease have doubled in the last decade, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The disease, which is caused by inhaling coal dust, now occurs in almost 10 percent of coal miners who work 25 or more years underground, as opposed to about 4 percent a decade ago. Safety standards enacted in 1969 were supposed to prevent black lung altoget ... |
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| Topics: coal, energy, health, mining, news (all these topics) |
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Big Coal, anti-wind Coal industry insider tapped to kill Cape Wind |
Erik Hoffner |
11 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: coal, energy, Massachusetts, wind power (all these topics) |
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Edwards not as green as you thought: When a ban isn't a ban Why Edwards' 'ban' on coal plants does little good against climate change |
David Roberts |
10 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, elections, energy, John Edwards, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Edwards and 'compatibility' John Edwards would not require that new coal plants sequester their CO2 emissions |
David Roberts |
10 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, elections, energy, John Edwards, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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CTL follies Coal-to-liquid is a dead end if there's a price on CO2 |
Joseph Romm |
09 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: energy, coal, coal-to-liquid fuel (all these topics) |
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Christians against coal mining Rev. Allen Johnson calls on churches to condemn mountaintop-removal mining |
Grist |
08 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: coal, coal-to-liquid fuel, mining, politics, religion and spirituality, West Virginia (all these topics) |
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Turns out toxic heavy metals are, um, toxic EPA determines coal waste raises cancer risk |
David Roberts |
07 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: US EPA, toxics, coal, energy (all these topics) |
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Coal is the enemy of the human race: Architecture2030 edition New full-page ad makes the case against coal |
David Roberts |
07 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: energy, coal, climate (all these topics) |
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