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Black Lung Is the New Black Rates of black lung disease double in a decade		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 ...
Topics: coal, energy, health, mining, news (all these topics)

Big Coal, anti-wind Coal industry insider tapped to kill Cape Wind	Erik Hoffner	11 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Those trying to stop what would be the nation's first offshore wind farm, Cape Wind, have just hired (another!) coal industry insider to lead the charge. Glenn Wattley is the new director of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, and as Wendy Williams details in her blog, he's a longtime coal and coal-gasification proponent. She says that this fits with her past reporting: Big Coal is behind many anti-wind efforts. In a news report on Wattley's new role (rich rea ...
Topics: coal, energy, Massachusetts, wind power (all these topics)

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
John Edwards. Photo: kk+ via flickr One of the most meaningful steps the U.S. can take to fight climate change is to forbid construction of new coal plants unless they capture and sequester their carbon emissions. If we allow more dirty coal plants, all our other efforts will be in vain. That's why James Hansen and Al Gore return to the subject so often. Dem presidential candidate Chris Dodd has called for such a policy in blunt language: "The Do ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, elections, energy, John Edwards, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Edwards and 'compatibility' John Edwards would not require that new coal plants sequester their CO2 emissions	David Roberts	10 Sep 2007	Gristmill
There was some question in this thread about what exactly John Edwards means when he says he would "require that all new coal-fired plants be built with the required technology to capture their carbon dioxide emissions." Would he require that new coal plants sequester their emissions, or merely that they be built in such a way that they could sequester their emissions at some point in the future? I called the Edwards campaign today. The answer is the latt ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, elections, energy, John Edwards, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

CTL follies Coal-to-liquid is a dead end if there's a price on CO2	Joseph Romm	09 Sep 2007	Gristmill
One final post on this week's liquid coal hearing. Forbes wrote up the hearing and got my bluntest quote: 'Coal-to-liquid is just a dead end, from a climate perspective,' added Joseph Romm, a senior fellow at the liberal-leaning Center for American Progress. 'Liquid coal will not have a future in this country, no matter how much money Congress squanders on it.' Well, I guess 'liberal-leaning' is better than 'liberal.' Why is liquid coal a dead end? B ...
Topics: coal, coal-to-liquid fuel, energy (all these topics)

Christians against coal mining Rev. Allen Johnson calls on churches to condemn mountaintop-removal mining	Grist	08 Sep 2007	Gristmill
This is a guest post from Rev. Allen Johnson, whom we interviewed last year as part of our God & the Environment series. Johnson heads Christians for the Mountains, a group fighting to protect the Appalachians from mountaintop-removal mining. This post is reprinted with permission from the Moyers Blog. ----- On August 22, The New York Times published an article that began, 'The Bush administration is set to issue a regulation on Friday [August 24] that would ens ...
Topics: coal, coal-to-liquid fuel, mining, politics, religion and spirituality, West Virginia (all these topics)

Turns out toxic heavy metals are, um, toxic EPA determines coal waste raises cancer risk	David Roberts	07 Sep 2007	Gristmill
The waste from burning coal -- coal combustion products, or CCPs, like coal ash and boiler slag -- contains toxic heavy metals like mercury and cadmium. But don't worry, the coal industry says that the concentrations aren't high enough to do anyone harm. Taking the coal industry's word for it, the U.S. EPA decided in 1993 and again in 2000 not to regulate CCPs as hazardous waste. As a consequence, the coal industry isn't all that careful with CCPs. Using a composite l ...
Topics: coal, energy, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

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
Ah, this kicks ass! The group Architecture2030 is putting a full-page ad in the next issue of the New Yorker. You can download the PDF here. I've reprinted the text below: ----- GLOBAL WARMING Think You're Making a Difference? Think Again. There are 151 new conventional coal-fired power plants in various stages of development in the US today. HOME DEPOT Home Depot is funding the planting of 300,000 trees in cities across the US to help absorb carbon ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy (all these topics)

Global warming: An inconvenient pain in the ass After delaying action against climate change, Big Coal is now scheming to cash in	Brian Beutler	06 Sep 2007	Gristmill
For readers out there who understand the climate crisis well (I assume basically all of you), a lot of this will be recap, but today's hearing underscored how desperate the situation really is and how urgently it needs to be addressed. That urgency is a source, at least to me, of tremendous frustration. To a great extent, we've reached this point precisely because energy industries and their political patrons spent years blocking action, rejecting science, and rhet ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy, politics (all these topics)

Yup. Stuck with coal. The word from today's hearing of Markey's climate committee	Brian Beutler	06 Sep 2007	Gristmill
As I suggested earlier, the crux of today's hearing of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Climate Change was to suggest that carbon capture and storage is necessary quickly, via enormous government subsidies, or else we're screwed. Remember, this is Ed Markey's committee. He's the guy who's supposed to advise Congress about upcoming climate-change legislation, and, for all intents and purposes, he's an ally to Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the envi ...
Topics: climate, coal, Ed Markey, energy, politics (all these topics)

Collision course The coal industry's rush to build new plants is bumping up against reality	David Roberts	06 Sep 2007	Gristmill
One thing the coal industry seems to get, but that isn't yet common public knowledge, is how fragile it is. It's a filthy relic of the 19th century and a rational society with a free and open energy market would have ditched it already. It has survived almost purely based on inertia -- its stranglehold on the political process and the persistence of various myths (like, say, the myth that it can be cheap and clean, or the myth that we can't meet our needs with renewabl ...
Topics: coal, energy (all these topics)

The coming carbon-sequestration era Reporting from a coal hearing of the House Select Cmte. on Global Warming	Brian Beutler	06 Sep 2007	Gristmill
If you dream of a near future in which coal mines are abandoned, coal workers are employed in emerging green energy fields, coal executives are feeding at the trough of welfare assistance (and not corporate welfare), and China and India are all too happy to buy our clean technologies at a healthy price ... well, then it's good you didn't attend this morning's hearing of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Climate Change. I'll be posting a few ent ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy, politics (all these topics)

CTL hearing report My testimony to Congress on liquid coal	Joseph Romm	06 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Here's the inside skinny on yesterday's liquid coal hearing before the House Science & Technology Committee. It was four on two (NRDC's David Hawkins and me vs. the other witnesses). You can read my testimony here and all the witness statements here -- not that I would recommend doing so unless you are a serious liquid-coal junkie like me. About 10 members of Congress were there at any given time -- about evenly split on how they view liquid coal. The ranking Rep ...
Topics: climate, coal, coal-to-liquid fuel, energy, politics (all these topics)

Edwards & the mine workers union How does Edwards' union support mesh with his ambitious climate-change platform?	Brian Beutler	04 Sep 2007	Gristmill
John Edwards' bid for union support seems to finally be paying off for him -- yesterday, his campaign won the support of the steelworkers and mine workers unions. Which raises an important question: To what extent is Edwards' support for mine workers (and their support for him) incompatible with his climate-change platform? Edwards was the first of the Democratic hopefuls to put forth an ambitious climate-change plan (perhaps inspiring slightly more ambitious offerings ...
Topics: coal, elections, energy, John Edwards, mining, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

CS BS Coal insider reveals the truth about carbon sequestration	David Roberts	03 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Does the coal industry really believe that carbon sequestration can make coal-fired power plants climate friendly? It's got legislators and even some green campaigners believing so. Given the coal industry's troubled relationship with the truth, perhaps some skepticism is warranted. The inimitable Sir Oolius points me to this post from M.J. Murphy. Murphy, obviously a masochist, overheard some intriguing things recently in the Climate Change Skeptics news group. Rec ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, coal, energy (all these topics)

The future of coal 'Clean coal' is an oxymoron	Joseph Romm	02 Sep 2007	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, Executive Director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. Should we, the nation's beleaguered taxpayers, be required to spend billions of dollars on an oxymoron? The oxymoron in question is 'clean coal,' and in my view, the answer is 'no.' If coal is to have a future, the coal industry and its partners in the rail and electric power industries should pay for it themselves. Here are the reasons. Fi ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy (all these topics)

Was this found on a stone tablet? Papyrus? Vellum? Handpress broadsheet? W. Va. editorial says mining coal should be easier	JMG	01 Sep 2007	Gristmill
This editorial is from 2007, not 1877: ' First Things First: Let's Mine the Coal.' Maybe there's something to the inbreeding jokes ... We can talk about windmills, solar panels and biomass, and they undoubtedly are in our future. But those energy sources cannot meet the nation's growing energy demands now or in the foreseeable future. Nuclear energy may take on an expanded role, but not everyone will welcome it. Our leaders must step up and tell the nation the truth: We need ...
Topics: coal, energy (all these topics)

Dave's Second Law of Sustainability Politics	David Roberts	28 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Clean up coal emissions and you end up with more -- and more toxic -- coal ash. You get cleaner air, but you get ash that can't be recycled (into, e.g., concrete). You breath free, but you've got arsenic and mercury leaching into your groundwater from coal-ash landfills. Look at this vintage coal magic: There are ways to remove the pollutants from emissions without making the ash unusable [for recycling]. But that equipment can be up to four times more expensive, ...
Topics: air pollution, coal, energy, health, water pollution (all these topics)

Coal welfare queens unite Liquid coal coalition gears up to suck from the public teat	David Roberts	28 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Mike Millikin brings word of the horrific goings-on at a recent conference on liquid coal. Witness: [Sen. Jay] Rockefeller [D-W.Va.], after saying that "coal is the single greatest chance our country has for achieving energy independence," outlined what he described as four key elements for building the coal-to-liquids industry. Build up military uses of coal-based fuels. ... Work together to keep all those who support coal on the s ...
Topics: coal, coal-to-liquid fuel, energy (all these topics)

Move Your Bloomin' Ash Curbing air pollution from coal plants can lead to more ash in landfills		28 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Move Your Bloomin' Ash Curbing air pollution from coal plants can lead to more ash in landfills The growing pressure to clean up emissions from coal-fired power plants is good for air quality, but it's got a sooty lining: pollution capture could end up filling landfills with millions more tons of toxic ash. More than one-third of the ash currently generated by coal plants is recycled for other uses, but the chemicals commonly u ...
Topics: coal, energy, news, toxics (all these topics)

CTL rulez! United Mine Workers of America provides fodder for time-capsule editorial on liquid coal	JMG	27 Aug 2007	Gristmill
This editorial in the Niagara Gazette is from 2007, not 1977. Honest.Cecil Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers of America, quickly cut to the chase on this matter by labeling CTL as a legitimate and real answer to resolving numerous worrisome issues on the table for our country. Energy independence, national security, the trade deficit and economy all stand to benefit greatly from the expansion of CTL technology. In West Virginia, thousands of jobs with good wages and ...
Topics: coal-to-liquid fuel, energy (all these topics)

Mountaintop removal mining: The waiting game MTR activists don't expect progress until the Bush administration is gone	Grist	25 Aug 2007	Gristmill
((mtr_include))This week, Gabriel Pacyniak and Katherine Chandler are traveling throughout southern West Virginia to report on mountaintop removal mining (MTR). They'll be visiting coalfields with abandoned and "reclaimed" MTR mines, and talking with residents, activists, miners, mine company officials, local reporters, and politicians. We'll publish their reports throughout the week. ----- As we wind down our trip, news breaks that the federal Office o ...
Topics: coal, energy, mining, West Virginia (all these topics)

Coal is the enemy of the human race: Goodell/Yoda edition A blast across coal's bow in the Washington Post	David Roberts	25 Aug 2007	Gristmill
When it comes to battling the Coal Empire, I am merely a Padawan. Jeff Goodell is the Jedi master. In Sunday's Washington Post, he unleashes a full frontal attack.
Topics: coal, energy (all these topics)

Dead coal: A live option Why does everyone assume that coal mining in Appalachia must continue?	David Roberts	25 Aug 2007	Gristmill
One other thing I wanted to point out from the NYT piece on Bush's new mountaintop removal mining rule: A spokesman for the National Mining Association, Luke Popovich, said that unless mine owners were allowed to dump mine waste in streams and valleys it would be impossible to operate in mountainous regions like West Virginia that hold some of the richest low-sulfur coal seams. ... Even with the best techniques and most careful reclamation, surface or undergro ...
Topics: coal, energy, mining (all these topics)

Killing you legally The Bush administration proposes to make illegal MTR mining legal	David Roberts	24 Aug 2007	Gristmill
I suppose I should have something to say about the Bush administration's latest effort to encourage mountaintop removal mining. But what? It's not like there's any particular analytical insight required. The Bushies are choosing profit for coal companies over some of America's most beautiful landscapes and oldest cultures. It's right there in the open. What's required in situations like this is not analysis but brute power politics. The administration makes it clear ...
Topics: coal, energy, mining, politics (all these topics)

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