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Forget seven generations Tribes gamble on coal, despite climate risks	Joseph Romm	16 Aug 2008	Gristmill
'In every deliberation we must consider the impact on the seventh generation ... even if it requires having skin as thick as the bark of a pine,' goes the Great Law of the Iroquois. If you embrace liquid coal, however, it is quite safe to say there is only one generation you are thinking of. 'Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms -- greed for life, for money, for ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, coal-to-liquid fuel, energy, Montana (all these topics)

Priorities	David Roberts	14 Aug 2008	Gristmill
From earth2tech: In the last two days, the Department of Energy has announced $24 million worth of new investments in solar energy while also revealing it's putting a whopping $340 million into yet more clean coal research. In conjunction with the funding announcements, the DOE says it's "committed to ... developing the technologies that will ensure coal can be used," but at the same time describes solar as "an important component of our comprehens ...
Topics: coal, Department of Energy, energy, renewable energy (all these topics)

Backwater blues W. Va. governor Manchin subsidizes his own state's economic irrelevance with liquid coal subsidies	David Roberts	11 Aug 2008	Gristmill
I've written before about the economic and environmental nightmare that is liquid coal. If I were a governor and an energy company proposed opening a liquid coal plant in my state, I would marshal every resource available to fight it off. You get a few dozen jobs in the short-term; in the long-term, you get intense pollution, a bad reputation, and a facility that is almost certain to be rendered an economic lemon by carbon regulations, thus setting up the need for ongo ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, coal-to-liquid fuel, energy, West Virginia (all these topics)

Coal doublespeak: It's cheap, so give me money! Virginia refuses to compel AEP's customers to share in new coal plant's construction costs	Sean Casten	11 Aug 2008	Gristmill
From Energy Central comes this gem of double speak from AEP Chairman Michael Morris, who, as the article notes ... ... has staked AEP's plans for future generating capacity on Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle or IGCC technology. Morris' concern is that coal isn't sufficiently loved. Why? Because regulators need more lobbying education' 'Collectively we have an educational challenge to help the body politic understand that coal has to play in the message for ...
Topics: coal, electricity, energy, utilities (all these topics)

What all America can look forward to under McCain AEP demands 45 percent rate increase for Ohio	Joseph Romm	10 Aug 2008	Gristmill
What happens when your utility is 68 percent dependent on coal? American Electric Power said Thursday it must raise electricity rates 45 percent for its nearly 1.5 million customers in Ohio over the next three years, to cover soaring coal prices and the cost of modernizing its systems to keep them reliable ... AEP executives acknowledge that the increases will be tough on consumers already facing high gas and food prices during a slumping economy.'The fact is that coa ...
Topics: coal, electricity, energy, John McCain, politics, utilities (all these topics)

First as tragedy, then as farce? Coal electricity prices: the new gas prices	David Roberts	08 Aug 2008	Gristmill
In the next few years, Americans who have grown accustomed to some of the cheapest power in the world will start to see their rates rise, sharply, mainly because coal is rapidly getting more expensive. Here's a preview: COLUMBUS, Ohio -- American Electric Power said Thursday it must raise electricity rates 45 percent for its nearly 1.5 million customers in Ohio over the next three years, to cover soaring coal prices and the cost of modernizing its systems to kee ...
Topics: coal, electricity, energy, gas prices, Ohio, utilities (all these topics)

The (renewable) electron economy, part 2 The five transport energy solutions and one imperative	Michael Hoexter	08 Aug 2008	Gristmill
This is the second in a series on how we can build an energy future based on our best science and no longer critically dependent upon exhaustible and polluting fossil fuels. The Five Transport Energy Solutions and One Imperative There are five fundamental options to move into a post-oil, post-natural gas energy world and one imperative: Imperative A: End-use energy efficiency and conservation. We will have to invest less in new energy supply if we get more f ...
Topics: biofuels, cars, coal, energy, renewable energy (all these topics)

Solid to Liquid Can Be a Gas Crow Tribe strikes $7 billion deal for coal-to-liquids plant on reservation		08 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 8:41 AM on 08 Aug 2008 The Crow Tribe on Thursday agreed to host a massive new $7 billion coal-to-liquids plant on its reservation land in Montana. The plant would produce about 50,000 barrels a day of diesel fuel when it opens, and eventually up to 125,000 barrels a day. Coal for the plant would come from a yet-to-be-developed mine on nearby Crow land with an estimated 9 billion t ...
Topics: business, coal, economy, energy, news, oil, politics (all these topics)

Radiation exposed Low doses of radiation can cause harm; coal plants worse than nuclear plants	Joseph Romm	02 Aug 2008	Gristmill
The effect of radiation is not a subject I blog on a great deal, although it is a subject I have studied a great deal. Indeed, my uncle, a former nuclear physics professor at MIT, started our family Radon testing business, which was sold off years ago. I asserted that people should be worried about low doses of radiation, especially cumulatively over time. Charles Barton of The Nuclear Green Revolution commented, 'Your low doses over time assertion has been repe ...
Topics: coal, energy, health, nuclear power (all these topics)

Notable quotable Appalachian Mountains: old and in the way	David Roberts	01 Aug 2008	Gristmill
'A lot of people look at mountain top removal [mining] as a negative, but I see it as a positive. We need to stop apologizing for coal ... I want us to promote mountain top removal, because we need flat land. We can not have economic expansion without places to do things and part of mountain top removal is for places like hospitals, airports and different type of merchants.' -- Kentucky Lieutenant Governor Daniel Mongiardo
Topics: coal, economy, energy, insanity, mining, quotables (all these topics)

Doom Where Your Plant Is EPA OKs giant coal plant on Navajo land in New Mexico		31 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 3:13 PM on 31 Jul 2008 After more than four years of deliberation, the U.S. EPA has bestowed an air permit to a proposed 600-acre coal plant on Navajo land in New Mexico. Announcing the step forward for the 1,500-megawatt Desert Rock Power Plant, the EPA noted that Navajo Nation leaders have "staunchly supported" the project since its inception -- though failed to mention the tribe members who blo ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, coal, energy, New Mexico, news, US EPA (all these topics)

Same Coal Story Bush praises coal, other fossil fuels in speech to West Virginia Coal Association		31 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 11:33 AM on 31 Jul 2008 In a speech to coal industry executives in West Virginia Thursday, President Bush praised nuclear power and fossil fuels of all kinds, but lavished special praise on coal. "There's no more reliable source of electricity than coal," he said. Bush announced $36 million for carbon capture projects, saying CO2 capture would make coal more earth-friendly. " ...
Topics: coal, energy, news, politics, President Bush, United States (all these topics)

My coal Kentucky home Kentucky to build new coal-to-liquids plant	Joseph Romm	22 Jul 2008	Gristmill
The following post is by Earl Killian, guest blogger at Climate Progress. Kentucky has selected a site to build a $4 billion coal-to-liquids plant in Pike County that would produce 50,000 barrels of liquid coal a day. According to Kentucky's Lexington Herald-Leader: ... The county would use federal and state grant money to put the basic infrastructure in place, including water and sewer, and the company chosen to operate the facility would pay for the rest.Coun ...
Topics: coal, coal-to-liquid fuel, energy, Kentucky, mining (all these topics)

FERC releases reports Feds note electric rate increases and high construction costs for nuclear and coal	Sean Casten	21 Jul 2008	Gristmill
An interesting new report [PDF] from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission seeks to explain why electric prices are currently increasing so dramatically. They lay most of the blame on rising fuel costs and rising commodity costs (copper, steel, etc.), which is certainly contributory, but in my opinion deceptive, since it suggests that -- but for commodity volatility -- things could be hunky-dory again. This implicitly diminishes the fact that we're entering a buil ...
Topics: coal, energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, nuclear power (all these topics)

You say that like it's a bad thing Minnesota utility plans wind farm over coal reserves	JMG	17 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Story at Wind Watch: A Minnesota utility said it's planning its own mega wind farm in Oliver County, meaning Oliver and Morton counties could some day be home to as many as 1,000 new wind turbines across the hilltops.At the same time the turbines are capturing mile after mile of wind, they could cover up substantial coal reserves along that southern stretch of Coal Country ...
Topics: coal, energy, Minnesota, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Nice gigawatt if you can get it Low-carbon energy solutions in India may depend on Tata	Nathan Wyeth	16 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Amid analysis of the G8's latest climate pronouncement, the announcement of India's first national climate action plan received less attention than it otherwise might have. Even in the Indian media, the plan was also overshadowed by the release of a McKinsey & Co. report that projects massive power demand growth in the country -- 100 gigawatts more demand in the next 10 years than previously estimated. Yet the very same day, the government's Investment Commission c ...
Topics: business, coal, economy, energy, India (all these topics)

No relief in sight The current oil shock	Guest author	16 Jul 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest essay from Dilip Hiro, author of Blood of the Earth: The Battle for the World's Vanishing Oil Resources (Nation Books). It was originally published on TomDispatch and is republished here with Tom's kind permission. ----- When will it end, this crushing rise in the price of gasoline, now averaging $4.10 a gallon at the pump? The question is uppermost in the minds of American motorists as they plan vacations or simply review their daily journeys. T ...
Topics: coal, economy, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, oil, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Coal for dummies Study finds that prenatal exposure to coal-plant emissions impedes neurodevelopment	Joseph Romm	16 Jul 2008	Gristmill
A major new study by the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health finds: Closing coal-fired power plants can have a direct, positive impact on children's cognitive development and health ... [P]renatal exposure to coal-burning emissions was associated with significantly lower average developmental scores and reduced motor development at age two. In the second unexposed group, these adverse effects were no longer observed; and the frequency of delayed m ...
Topics: air pollution, China, coal, energy, scientific research (all these topics)

Mechanism Bull U.N. clean-energy program criticized for not funding clean energy		11 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 2:32 PM on 11 Jul 2008 The United Nations Clean Development Mechanism, set up under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, issues carbon credits to industrialized nations that pay for renewable-energy projects in developing countries. Last we checked, coal and natural gas weren't renewable -- but the CDM is currently paying out millions of dollars a year to 13 natural-gas-burning plants in China and India, and in Sept. ...
Topics: carbon offsets, carbon trading, climate, coal, energy, fossil fuels, natural gas, news, renewable energy, United Nations (all these topics)

Coal money talks, public ignores Poll shows 86 percent of public wants a five-year halt on new coal plants	Ted Nace	09 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Shortly before the July 4 holiday, Opinion Research Corporation released a poll entitled 'Opinions About Gas Prices and U.S. Energy Independence' [PDF] which shows -- drum roll please -- that the public, by a three-to-one margin, is either 'very angry' or 'somewhat angry' about gasoline prices. While gas prices grabbed the headlines, the poll also happened to ask a number of questions about coal, and the answers were both interesting and surprising: The percentage of ...
Topics: advertising, coal, energy, renewable energy (all these topics)

CCS: Environmental whack-a-mole	Sean Casten	07 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Carbon capture and sequestration gets heralded as a great way to lower CO2 emissions and keep burning coal. Unfortuantely, it also kills the efficiency of the coal plant, meaning that every other environmental externality associated with coal-fired generation -- from mountaintop removal to power plant siting -- is exacerbated by CCS. Planet Ark puts it succinctly: The process called carbon capture and sequestration requires as much as 20 percent of the electricity ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

The power of the state State energy news update	Joseph Romm	30 Jun 2008	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Kari Manlove, fellows assistant at the Center for American Progress. -----On Wednesday (June 25th), Florida Gov. Charlie Crist signed a historic piece of energy legislation that advances Florida one step closer to establishing a cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Florida is the first state in the Southeast to adopt a law of this nature. While Crist has prevented new coal plant construction and whil ...
Topics: coal, elections, energy, politics, state politics (all these topics)

A Coal New World Landmark ruling halts Georgia coal plant on basis of CO2 emissions		30 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 2:38 PM on 30 Jun 2008 A Georgia coal plant cannot go forward until it receives an air-pollution permit limiting its carbon-dioxide emissions, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore ruled Monday. The ruling marks the first time a judge has used the Supreme Court's classification of CO2 as a pollutant to regulate emissions from an industrial source. Moore's decision overturns a p ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, coal, energy, Georgia, greenhouse-gas emissions, litigation, news, progress (all these topics)

Power from rooftops could replace coal More than half of today's electricity, more than 16 percent of today's energy	Gar Lipow	30 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Enough sunlight strikes unshaded U.S. rooftops to replace all the coal and some of the natural gas we use to make electricity. Backup via ground source heat pumps, and smart grid technology would allow this variable energy source to displace base-load coal with today's technology. Whether this is the most cost effective way to displace coal is another question. Also rooftop solar is a silver BB rather than a silver bullet: Even after massive efficiency improvements we wi ...
Topics: coal, energy, renewable energy, solar thermal power, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Mountain Madness New coal plant approved in Virginia, may fuel mountaintop-removal mining		26 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 11:53 AM on 26 Jun 2008 An embattled $1.8 billion coal plant slated for Wise County, Va., was granted pollution permits Wednesday by a state regulatory board, allowing construction to proceed. The company that will be building the 585-megawatt plant, Dominion Resources, promised local officials it would only source coal from within Virginia; that move is expected to fuel increased mountaintop-remo ...
Topics: business, climate, coal, energy, news, Virginia (all these topics)

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