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The killing of Appalachia
Harper's article on Appalachian mountaintop-removal mining causes outbreak of despair, depression |
David Roberts |
11 Apr 2005 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: coal, energy, mining (all these topics) |
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Two Paths Diverged in the Desert ...
Battle between coal and renewables plays out in Nevada |
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11 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Two Paths Diverged in the Desert ... Battle between coal and renewables plays out in Nevada A drama in the small Nevada town of Gerlach is a harbinger of things to come for communities around the U.S. On one side is Sempra Energy, which wants to build a coal-fired power plant that would generate enough energy for 1.5 million households and pipe it west to California and up to the Pacific Northwest. On the oth ... |
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| Topics: coal, energy, Nevada, news, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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Climb Every Mountain. Then Remove It.
Activists plan summer of mountaintop-removal protests |
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29 Mar 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Climb Every Mountain. Then Remove It. Activists plan summer of mountaintop-removal protests Environmental activists are planning a summer of focused protest against mountaintop-removal coal mining in West Virginia and surrounding coal states. "Mountain Justice Summer" will call for nonviolent protests against this highly destructive mining technique, whereby entire mountaintops ... |
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| Topics: coal, energy, mining and drilling, news, Tennessee, West Virginia (all these topics) |
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Conquered in Concord
New Hampshire Senate approves stricter mercury rules than feds |
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25 Mar 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Conquered in Concord New Hampshire Senate approves stricter mercury rules than feds At risk of getting stuck with a number of toxic mercury hotspots under the Bush administration's new mercury cap-and-trade rule, New Hampshire's Senate approved a bill yesterday to adopt rules more stringent than the feds' and to ban the state's two coal-fired power plants from trading pollution allowances with cleaner ... |
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| Topics: coal, energy, New Hampshire, news, politics, toxics (all these topics) |
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Scrubs
Debate over mercury-reduction technology rages on |
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18 Mar 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Scrubs Debate over mercury-reduction technology rages on The Bush administration's release of its Clean Air Mercury Rule this week has reignited debate over how well existing technology can remove mercury from emissions at coal-fired power plants. The rule mandates a 70 percent reduction in emissions by 2018, a number many enviros contend current mercury-removal technology can achieve within three to five years. ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, coal, energy, news, toxics (all these topics) |
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Kids Absorb the Darndest Things
Lower IQs in mercury-exposed children cost U.S. billions, study says |
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01 Mar 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Kids Absorb the Darndest Things Lower IQs in mercury-exposed children cost U.S. billions, study says The effects of mercury on fetal development are costing the U.S. economy $8.7 billion a year, says a new study. Some 317,000 to 637,000 children born in the U.S. each year have been exposed to unsafe mercury levels in the womb, and many of them sustain diminished IQs, researchers reported in a National Institutes of Health jour ... |
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| Topics: coal, energy, news, toxics (all these topics) |
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Hazed and Confused
Appeals court rejects five-state plan for clean park air |
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24 Feb 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Hazed and Confused Appeals court rejects five-state plan for clean park air A market-based program used by five Western states to control haze in national parks and wilderness areas was rejected by a federal appeals court Friday. Brought to court in a challenge by a coal and utilities industry group, the states' efforts to cut sulfur-dioxide pollution and improve air quality and visibility in the parks w ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, coal, energy, news, US EPA, West (all these topics) |
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Heavy Metal Madness
Pombo eggs on mercury debate with controversial report |
Amanda Griscom Little |
24 Feb 2005 |
Muckraker |
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| Topics: coal, energy, fishing, mercury, Muckraker, National Academy of Sciences, National Wildlife Federation, NRDC, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Coal Position
Bush admin isn't putting money where its mouth is on 'clean coal' |
Amanda Griscom Little |
03 Dec 2004 |
Muckraker |
| Bush admin isn't putting money where its mouth is on "clean coal" By Amanda Griscom Little 03 Dec 2004 When pressed on climate change, the Bush administration is fond of citing "clean coal" technology as the wave of the energy future. Even some enviros are starting to grudgingly acknowledge the technology's potential for good. Coal: Can you dig it? Photo: NREL. But all Bush's talk doesn't appear to be translating into the funding needed to really get clean coal ... |
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| Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, Muckraker, politics, tech (all these topics) |
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Naturally: Gas
On home heating |
Umbra Fisk |
18 Dec 2003 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, Can you shed some light (or some warmth) on the most environmentally sound ways to heat one's home this winter? Natural gas over coal and oil for its lower carbon (and particulate) content? What about fireplaces: good or bad? Would burning gas logs be a good alternative to burning real wood? Thanks for your help! Janet Washington, D.C. Dearest Janet, What we cold eco-folks are looking for is a heat source that is clean to prod ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, coal, energy, energy at home, energy efficiency, green living, natural gas, oil (all these topics) |
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Zuni Side Up
Zuni tribe member Pablo Padilla talks about beating back a strip mine |
Hillary Rosner |
07 Aug 2003 |
Main Dish |
| Earlier this week, Native Americans and environmentalists won a surprising victory when a power company abandoned plans to build a highly controversial coal mine in New Mexico. Zuni Salt Lake. Photo: Zuni Salt Lake Coalition. For 20 years, the Salt River Project, an Arizona-based utility company, had sought to build an 18,000-acre strip mine near a salt lake in Western New Mexico. Th ... |
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| Topics: coal, energy, mining, New Mexico (all these topics) |
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Fire on the Mountain
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Ben White |
13 Apr 2000 |
Muckraker |
| Enviros in Washington are apoplectic over what they fear will be a pre-Earth Day cave-in by the Clinton administration over mountaintop-removal mining in West Virginia. This used to be a mountain. Photo: David Miller, www.mountaintopmining.org. Readers may recall this battle from last year's appropriations season, when powerful Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) introduced a rider that would have bypassed a federal judge's ruling against the destructive mini ... |
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| Topics: coal, Colorado, energy, Greenpeace, Idaho, Montana, Muckraker, Nevada, politics, Utah, Washington DC ... (all these topics) |
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