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Coal is the enemy of the human race It's also the road to 'energy security'	David Roberts	30 Nov 2006	Gristmill
A few times now John has made a point I have made in the past and now shall make again (how's that for a self-referential intro?). To wit: "Energy security" is a lopsided way of framing our energy problem, and left un-balanced, will do more harm than good. Why? Because the shortest, cheapest route to energy security (or 'independence,' if you like) is through coal, and coal is ... wait for it ... the enemy of the human race. This is not just true for China ...
Topics: coal, energy (all these topics)

The Revolution Will Be Solarized An interview with Travis Bradford, author of Solar Revolution	David Roberts	30 Nov 2006	Main Dish
Solar power has been the Next Big Thing for decades now, yet it remains a niche player in the energy world. The problem of intermittency is unsolved, up-front capital costs remain high, and surging demand for polysilicon, a key component of solar panels, has recently outstripped supply, stifling production. Travis Bradford. So when someone claims that within decades solar ...
Topics: biofuels, coal, energy, interview, natural gas, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Coal or happiness: you can't have both Know it	David Roberts	29 Nov 2006	Gristmill
There's a great op-ed in the NYT today making the argument that, however much Malthus and his heirs have fallen out of favor, they may have the last laugh. Limits are back, baby! Here are two memes I'm happy to see getting out into the mainstream: In the words of a recent interviewee (watch for it tomorrow): Coal is the enemy of the human race. This, from the last paragraph:... we really need to start thinking hard about how our societies -- especially thos ...
Topics: coal, energy (all these topics)

Pits of Despair Coal industry fends off concerns, keeps working on comeback		16 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
Pits of Despair Coal industry fends off concerns, keeps working on comeback Some of the tap water in West Virginia's Mingo County is flowing in funny colors: red, brown, and black. Alarmed residents asked the state if the discoloration, caused by high levels of heavy metals including arsenic and lead, could be related to Big Coal's practice of injecting its waste underground. Regulators say there's ...
Topics: coal, energy, mining and drilling, news, West Virginia (all these topics)

Coal Hollow A project on the effects of coal mining in Appalachia	David Roberts	06 Sep 2006	Gristmill
Photographs and oral histories from Coal Hollow -- a project on the effects of coal mining on poor Appalachians in West Virginia -- will be on display at the Southeast Museum of Photography on the Daytona Beach campus of the Daytona Beach Community College from August 31 - October 29. Whether or not you make it down to Florida, check out the book and DVD. The kind of poverty that wouldn't be out of place in the most desolate developing nations exists in th ...
Topics: coal, energy, mining, West Virginia (all these topics)

The Texas Planet Massacre Texas may approve 16 new coal-fired power plants		06 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
The Texas Planet Massacre Texas may approve 16 new coal-fired power plants The state of Texas, which spews more greenhouse gases than Canada or the U.K., is set to reduce its emissions. And by "reduce" we mean "massively increase." Texas may soon approve construction of 16 new coal-fired power plants. And not the fancy new "clean coal" kind, either -- the old-school dirty kind, which would ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy, news, Texas (all these topics)

Texas set to build new coal-fired power plants National efforts to cut GHG emissions will suffer	David Roberts	05 Sep 2006	Gristmill
Everyone is justifiably excited about the good news out of California, but a much more representative microcosm of the climate debate can be found in the great state of Texas. Texas leads the nation in GHG emissions -- it spews more than Canada or the U.K. It has no plan for reducing those emissions. It has rejected legislative efforts to reduce them for years. In essence, Governor Rick Perry has said that he won't do anything until the feds do, which we all know is ...
Topics: coal, energy, Texas (all these topics)

The Merchant of Menace How 'merchant coal' is changing the face of America	Carrie La Seur	24 Aug 2006	Main Dish
How "merchant coal" is changing the face of America By Carrie La Seur 24 Aug 2006 � From his rolling green soybean fields above a slow river in eastern Iowa, Don Shatzer looks out over the farm where he was raised, across land he and his neighbors have farmed all their lives. Below him are the garden beds where his wife Linda grows organic vegetables to safeguard the family's health, and the farm pond and beach he built for the grandkids. A few miles to the west ...
Topics: coal, energy, Iowa, Texas (all these topics)

Dodge Not Lest Ye Be Judged Court rules with EPA on power-plant pollution controls		18 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Dodge Not Lest Ye Be Judged Court rules with EPA on power-plant pollution controls Imagine that gavel sound from Law & Order, and here we go: In 1999, the U.S. EPA sued Cinergy Corp. for modifying several coal-fueled power plants without following Clean Air Act pollution-control requirements. (Moment of silence for the days when eco-laws were enforced.) One month before Pre ...
Topics: air pollution, coal, energy, environmental justice, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Party at Jim's House! Idaho governor says no to coal, yes to whoopin' it up		11 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Party at Jim's House! Idaho governor says no to coal, yes to whoopin' it up Exhibiting the flair and confidence only a short-timer can afford, Idaho Gov. Jim Risch (R) has announced that the state don't need no stinkin' coal. Risch, who took office when Dirk Kempthorne resigned in May to head the Interior Department, will step down when the term ends in January. So why not have some fun? The guv will opt ...
Topics: coal, Department of Interior, energy, Idaho, news (all these topics)

Blast Rites In coal country, mining is destroying cemeteries and faith	Jessica Tzerman	03 Aug 2006	Main Dish
James Bowe, a lifelong resident of Whitesville, W.Va., knows the mountains around his home better than he knows himself. He's seen friends and family buried there, and has devoted countless hours to protecting his loved ones' resting places and the Indian burial grounds that stand alongside them. So when Bowe pulled up on his four-wheeler in early April and spotted a coal company drilling in the ...
Topics: Appalachia, coal, energy, Ohio, West Virginia (all these topics)

That Darn Pat Coal-fired cooperative coughs up cash to climate crank		28 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
That Darn Pat Coal-fired cooperative coughs up cash to climate crank Say you don't like the results of climate science. What to do? Us, we suffer from night terrors. But the Colorado-based Intermountain Rural Electric Association -- a group heavily invested in coal-burning utilities -- is going with the fossil-fuel industry's favorite alternate strategy: buy more favorable science! They've donated $100,000 to notorious climat ...
Topics: coal, Colorado, energy, news (all these topics)

They Weren't Kidding About the 'Future' Part Feds move forward with clean coal plant -- kind of		26 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
They Weren't Kidding About the "Future" Part Feds move forward with clean coal plant -- kind of The U.S. government is moving ahead with FutureGen, a $1 billion demonstration clean coal plant -- and by "moving ahead," we mean they've decided that it will be built on one of four sites in either Texas or Illinois. The final siting decision will be made in September 2007; constructi ...
Topics: coal, energy, Illinois, news, renewable energy, Texas (all these topics)

In Goodell Company An interview with Jeff Goodell, author of Big Coal	David Roberts	14 Jul 2006	Arts and Minds
In 2001, around the time Dick Cheney's secret-recipe energy plan made its debut, Jeff Goodell went to West Virginia to report on coal's rising fortunes. He'd been sent to do a story for The New York Times Magazine, but the material spilled over into a book, Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future, published this summer. It's a journey from the mines of Wyoming, across the plains b ...
Topics: coal, energy, interview (all these topics)

Importing coal	David Roberts	10 Jul 2006	Gristmill
Here's a story you don't hear about much: With nearly a quarter of the world's coal supply -- enough to last centuries -- the United States has been dubbed the "Saudi Arabia of Coal" by US officials and energy experts. But thanks to growing global coal markets and clean air regulations, the US is witnessing a latter-day equivalent of "carrying coals to Newcastle" -- a 230 percent leap in coal imports to the US since 1999. ... ...
Topics: coal, energy (all these topics)

Goodell on coal gasification	David Roberts	23 Jun 2006	Gristmill
My officemates are furiously packing, washing, dusting, and hauling in preparation for the Big Grist Move (you could help out by sending a few dollars our way!). I fled the scene to come home, using the excuse that somebody has to keep the blog going. So I guess I better blog about something ... On Wednesday, I had a long, fascinating conversation with Jeff Goodell, author of Big Coal. I hope we can get it up in a week or so. In the meantime, check out the great op-e ...
Topics: coal, energy (all these topics)

Interview with Jeff Goodell, author of Big Coal	David Roberts	19 Jun 2006	Gristmill
I'm not sure what I expected when I picked up Jeff Goodell's Big Coal, but I was pleasantly surprised. It is neither a number-and-graph-filled wonkfest nor a provincial, narrow examination of a particular set of companies. Instead, it's an engagingly written narrative that travels through every stage of coal -- from extraction through travel through burning -- and ends with a broad examination of the consequences for the climate. I really can't recommend it highly enou ...
Topics: books, coal, energy (all these topics)

Warts and Ethanol A new reliance on coal could sap green cred from the ethanol industry	Amanda Griscom Little	26 May 2006	Muckraker
As ethanol boosterism spreads far and wide -- from Bush's bully pulpit to the New York Times editorial page to green-group press releases -- a quietly emerging trend is threatening to undermine the biofuel's environmental credibility. How green is this ethanol plant? Photo: iStockphoto. More and more ethanol manufacturers are looking to power their plants with cheap coal i ...
Topics: coal, energy, ethanol, Muckraker (all these topics)

Yeah ... coal does that Greenwashing coal with platitudes	Corey McKrill	11 May 2006	Gristmill
In the same vein as the half-pint shill with a skateboard who's 'stoked' about how clean coal is, this greenwash site for Peabody Coal tries to appeal to the bumpersticker platitude crowd in its latest ad: ENERGY FOR THE 21st CENTURY Flip a switch. Play a tune. Warm your home. Fuel your car. Yeah ... coal can do that.And really, what can't coal do? Insipidity and people's high tolerance for it never cease to amaze. But the technologies and promises for a bright, ...
Topics: coal, energy (all these topics)

Rhymes With Blagojevich Mercury emissions from power plants on the rise in the U.S.		02 May 2006	Daily Grist
Rhymes With Blagojevich Mercury emissions from power plants on the rise in the U.S. Mercury emissions in the U.S. fell by nearly 2 percent between 2003 and 2004, according to newly released federal data, but that small bit of good news masks a troubling trend. Mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants were actually up 4 percent over the same period, according to a Chicago Tribune analysis, thanks to i ...
Topics: coal, energy, news, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Things That Go Lump in the Night Coal makes a comeback		19 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Things That Go Lump in the Night Coal makes a comeback As oil prices rise, coal will emerge as the fuel of the future. This depressing assessment is the collective judgment of international power company executives, expressed in a recent survey. Interestingly, the same execs cited greenhouse-gas emissions as one of their top concerns, and assumed there would be a push to develop "clean coal" technology -- or as we like to call ...
Topics: coal, energy, news (all these topics)

Coal gasification: "clean coal" or subsidy-hungry boondoggle?	David Roberts	13 Apr 2006	Gristmill
Governing magazine has an excellent, compact overview of current developments in coal. If you're hazy on gasification this, coal-to-liquid that, and Fischer-Tropsch the other, I recommend it. With oil and natural-gas prices rising and coal in plentiful supply, it's more or less inevitable that coal's going to get used, so it makes sense that (some) enviro organizations are biting the bullet and joining the push for the cleanest possible applications. There is ...
Topics: coal, coal-to-liquid fuel, energy (all these topics)

Coal Decliner Idaho legislature passes two-year moratorium on coal-fired power plants		03 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Coal Decliner Idaho legislature passes two-year moratorium on coal-fired power plants In a two-for-one snub of President Bush and Idaho Gov. (and likely future Interior Secretary) Dirk Kempthorne (R), Idaho's Republican-controlled legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill last week that would put a two-year moratorium on new coal-fired power plants in the state. The bill -- which says the plants "may have a significant negat ...
Topics: coal, energy, Idaho, news (all these topics)

Peak oil, coal, and bizarre optimism	David Roberts	28 Mar 2006	Gristmill
So last week Salon ran a big story on peak oil by Katharine Mieszkowski. It was decent, though focused a bit too much on the loony fringes. I guess the temptation to do that is irresistible when trying to make a long story about the Hubbert Curve and Venezuelan oil reserves compelling. In response, John Quiggen (at the usually excellent Crooked Timber group blog) wrote a response I can only characterize as bizarre. But the comments under the post don't treat it a ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, coal, energy, oil (all these topics)

Ethanol and coal What's really disturbing about the new coal-fired ethanol plants.	Tom Philpott	27 Mar 2006	Gristmill
David's post about ethanol and coal inspired me to do a bit of research on just how much coal goes into producing G.W. Bush's favorite 'renewable,' 'clean-burning' fuel source. What I found is ... disturbing. First, some background. Before you can distill corn into fuel, you have to crush it. There are two ways to do so: wet milling and dry milling. According to this USDA document, dry milling accounts for about two-thirds of ethanol production, wet milling the rest ...
Topics: biofuels, coal, energy, ethanol (all these topics)

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