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Citizens and the Nation Navajo Nation will develop wind-power project		28 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 12:22 PM on 28 Mar 2008 Today we present the good, the bad, and the ugly of energy sources on Navajo land. The good: The Navajo Nation has formed a joint venture with Boston-based Citizens Energy Corp for a wind-power project on its vast Western reservation. The bad: The tribe continues to try to push through a controversial coal plant as well, and recently sued the U.S. EPA for not yet issuing an air permit. The ugl ...
Topics: coal, energy, mining, news, wind power (all these topics)

Casten gospel reaches NYT	David Roberts	27 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Congrats to our own Sean Casten for getting the following letter to the editor in The New York Times: Re "States' Battles Over Energy Grow Fiercer With U.S. in a Policy Gridlock" ("The Energy Challenge" series, March 20): Proponents of coal-fired power argue falsely that coal is cheap. Coal is a cheap fuel. But who cares? Coal can't run an iPod. And electricity from coal -- which also includes fuel, maintenance and capital recovery costs -- ...
Topics: business, coal, energy, renewable energy (all these topics)

Another entrant in the $1/watt solar sweepstakes Cost of solar cells may be driven down dramatically	David Roberts	26 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Well lookie here! A series of manufacturing process improvements could make the cost of electricity from silicon-based solar cells comparable to today's prices for coal generation within about four years, according to a company emerging out of stealth today. The company, 1366 Technologies, will be using technologies developed in MIT labs to reduce the manufacturing costs of standard-issue multi-crystalline silicon solar cells. They say they can ultimately reduce ...
Topics: business, carbon sequestration, coal, energy, renewable energy, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Sachs gets it wrong Since when is regulation optimal?	Sean Casten	25 Mar 2008	Gristmill
I like Jeffrey Sachs, and I generally agree with what he has to say about poverty, health, and the obligations of the rich to look after the poor. But he gets it dead wrong in the current Scientific American: Even with a cutback in wasteful energy spending, our current technologies cannot support both a decline in carbon dioxide emissions and an expanding global economy. Says who? Why can't we find ways to dramatically lower our primary energy use per dollar of GD ...
Topics: coal, economy, energy, energy efficiency, fossil fuels, natural gas, oil (all these topics)

Coal is not cheap: Kansas edition Independent financial analysis finds that coal is a stinker of an investment for Kansas	David Roberts	25 Mar 2008	Gristmill
We've been following the ongoing battle over coal in Kansas closely. (The latest is that Gov. Sebelius vetoed a bill that would have moved the plants forward and prevented her KDHE secretary from blocking future plants.) Today brings an interesting development. A new report from a leading financial research firm, Innovest, comes to a blunt conclusion: building the plants would put Kansas ratepayers at substantial and ongoing risk. They would be saddled with long-term ...
Topics: coal, economy, energy, Kansas, state politics (all these topics)

Focus on fossil fools A different way to mark April Fools' Day	Erik Hoffner	25 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Just one week until Fossil Fools Day! April 1 will mark a day of creative protest against global fossil energy industry hegemony, sparked by grassroots action group Rising Tide. Here's their list of suggested targets: New coal plants Proposed liquefied natural gas import terminals Proposed oil and natural gas pipelines Oil refineries Existing coal plants Local electricity providers Mountaintop removal mining sites near or connected to you Tar sands Che ...
Topics: coal, energy, fossil fuels, grassroots activism, oil sands, politics (all these topics)

Why FutureGen had to die The blind alley of more coal	John McGrath	25 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Thomas Homer-Dixon, whose book I adore, has written an op-ed in The Globe and Mail arguing in favor of large government investments in carbon capture and sequestration technology. His advocacy of CCS has long confused me -- my reading of his book suggested (to me, anyway) that large-scale CCS was precisely the kind of technology we should avoid like the plague. To recap: Homer-Dixon builds on the work of Joseph Tainter, who argues that societies respond to pressures ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, coal, energy, fossil fuels, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Run your car on coal? Maybe not CTL fuels: still a bad idea	Guest author	25 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay from Peter Montague, executive director of the Environmental Research Foundation. ----- As the price of oil rises, coal company executives smell a huge opportunity: they are planning to ramp up a new global industry to turn coal into liquid fuels (diesel, kerosene and jet fuel), plus basic feedstocks for the chemical industry to make plastics, fertilizers, solvents, pesticides, and more. The coal-to-chemicals industry is already going ga ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, coal-to-liquid fuel, energy, politics (all these topics)

Tell us something we don't know The Kansas City Star: New coal plants are expensive	Sean Casten	21 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The Kansas City Star reports: Electric bills are poised to soar for customers of utilities building coal-fired power plants. Coal-based electric utility executive responds: We're moving forward regardless of what you namby-pamby, cheap-energy-loving hippies think.* Michael Dworkin then raises the obvious question: You've got to ask: 'Do you think we have reached a point where it economically doesn't make sense?' It will be interesting to see how this af ...
Topics: business, coal, energy, Kansas (all these topics)

She's Got a Feeling You're Not in Kansas Anymore Bill to allow new dirty coal plant vetoed by Kansas governor		21 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 3:09 PM on 21 Mar 2008 Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has vetoed a bill that would have allowed a new two-unit coal plant to be built in her state. The legislation would have overturned an October decision by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to deny Sunflower Electric a coal-plant permit on the basis of greenhouse-gas emissions. The bill Sebelius kicked to the cu ...
Topics: coal, energy, heroes, Kansas, legislation, news, politics, state politics (all these topics)

Sebelius vetoes coal bill Governor plays chicken with legislature over coal in Kansas	David Roberts	21 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has vetoed Senate Bill 327, whereby the state legislature would have constrained the powers of Kansas Dept. of Health and Environment Secretary Roderick Bremby, prohibited "consideration of any standards beyond the Clean Air Act" (which, remember, U.S. EPA refuses to apply to CO2, despite the Supreme Court's orders), and green-lit two new coal plants -- 11 million tons of CO2. This is from Sebelius' statement: Instead of b ...
Topics: coal, energy, Kansas, politics, state politics, US EPA (all these topics)

West Virginia, Mountain Drama Clinton and Obama boost coal in West Virginia		21 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 2:03 PM on 21 Mar 2008 Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both did some coal-boosting while campaigning in West Virginia this week. Clinton told West Virginians she's always been in favor of "the cleanest coal possible," but that "coal fits in very importantly" to America's energy future. Asked about mountaintop-removal mining in a radio interview Wednesday, she hedged, saying she didn't &quo ...
Topics: Barack Obama, coal, economy, elections, energy, green jobs, Hillary Clinton, mining, news, politics, presidential race 08, West Virginia (all these topics)

Biggers to Obama: Free Appalachia from coal	David Roberts	21 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Jeff Biggers suggests an ambitious and risky Appalachian strategy for Barack Obama: By the 1920s, plundered for their coal and unable to compete with the non-union labor in Kentucky and West Virginia, the southern Illinois coal towns had turned into deforested and eroded wastelands, and were depicted by one government report as a 'picture, almost unrelieved, of utter economic devastation.' Southern Illinois lay claim to the highest infant mortality rates in the nati ...
Topics: Barack Obama, coal, energy, Illinois, mining, politics (all these topics)

Poof! 132 coal plants disappear The magic mouse of Guy Caruso	Ted Nace	21 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Want to kill one coal plant? Use a lawyer. Want to kill a hundred? Use a spreadsheet. On March 4, without fanfare, a�bureaucrat named Guy Caruso caused�132 coal plants to disappear with a wave of his magic mouse. Caruso is the head of the Energy Information Administration, the division of the U.S. Department of Energy that, well, comes up with information on energy. Sort of like the CIA, but less glamorous. A year ago, the EIA projected [PDF] that electri ...
Topics: coal, Department of Energy, energy (all these topics)

Latest hot commodity: coal As coal prices rise, U.S. coal exports boom	Tom Philpott	21 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Environmentalists have helped scuttle more than 50 coal-fired power plants in the U.S. in the past year. That's fantastic. But the movement to stop coal won't help the climate unless it can globalize; for the climate, coal burned in China traps just as much warmth as coal burned in Texas. Nor will stopping more U.S. coal-fired power plants help save communities in the mining zones of Appalachia from environmental and economic devastation. That's because U.S. coal ...
Topics: business, coal, consumerism, energy, international politics (all these topics)

World's dumbest project: Tata Ultra Mega How a twisted definition is setting up a monumental folly in India	Ted Nace	20 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Here is how the World Bank proposes to solve climate change: lend money to build a 4,000-megawatt coal plant in India that will emit 25.7 million tons of carbon dioxide per year. By way of comparison, that's half a million tons more than the worst carbon emitter in North America, the Scherer plant near Macon, Georgia. In a weird distortion of logic, Tata Ultra Mega is considered a Clean Development Mechanism by the organization that administers the Kyoto Protocol. This ...
Topics: World Bank, energy, coal, India (all these topics)

Trading off jobs and lives for the 'economic necessity' of coal Hillary Clinton gives tepid response on question about mountaintop-removal mining	David Roberts	19 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Hillary Clinton was asked about mountaintop-removal mining in an interview on West Virginia public radio (mp3 link) this morning. Her answer was, in my eyes, terribly disappointing. Here it is: I am concerned about it for all the reasons people state, but I think it's a difficult question because of the conflict between the economic and environmental trade-off that you have here. I'm not an expert. I don't know enough to have an independent opinion, but I sure ...
Topics: coal, dumbassery, energy, Hillary Clinton, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Letting what market figure out the best way? A cap-and-trade system will not by itself eliminate dirty energy's unfair advantages	David Roberts	19 Mar 2008	Gristmill
On p. 57 of Fred Krupp's (generally excellent) new book Earth: The Sequel, it says this: In essence, renewable standards, subsidies, and other mandates assume that the government has all the answers, rather than letting the market figure out the best way to produce clean energy at the lowest cost. I'm never satisfied with how people talk about this stuff. On one side you have this sort hankie-waving fear of besmirching the virtue of the virgin market. On the oth ...
Topics: business, carbon tax, carbon trading, coal, energy (all these topics)

BYOBlue Wear blue for Earth Day 2008 to vote for no coal!	Edward Mazria	12 Mar 2008	Gristmill
(high-res version here; free for distribution) Earth Day 2008 is going to be historic. We, along with numerous other groups around the nation, are calling on everyone to wear blue during Earth Day 2008 to signify a vote for no coal. Events will be happening around the world from April 19-22, so ... If you're attending the Earth Day event on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on April 20, wear blue. If you're attending another major Earth Day event, wear blue. ...
Topics: coal, energy, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

Thought: Control Waxman and Markey introduce bill to ban new dirty coal plants		11 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 10:09 AM on 11 Mar 2008 House Representatives Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) have introduced the "Moratorium on Uncontrolled Power Plants Act of 2008," which would do pretty much what it sounds like: prevent new coal plants in the U.S. unless they're built with advanced pollution controls. Says Waxman, "The altemative is senseless -- locking in decades of additional global war ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, coal, Ed Markey, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, news, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

Coal: getting expensiver	Sean Casten	11 Mar 2008	Gristmill
More details on the new, really-really-expensive AEP coal plant in West Virginia. It seems like just yesterday that I wrote that the 17 percent rate increase announced by AEP would not be the last one, given the cost of this plant. Two days later, here they come. Specifically, 'Customers could start paying as early as next year with rate hikes starting at $1 per month in 2009 and eventually climbing to $7.70 per month. AEP customers could pay nearly $160 million du ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, coal, energy, West Virginia (all these topics)

The enemy of my enemy Natural gas utilities are no friends of Big Coal	David Roberts	10 Mar 2008	Gristmill
In the fight against coal, crucial support may come from another fossil fuel: natural gas. A price on carbon emissions, bane to the big coal utilities, will advantage gas utilities, at least in the short-term. As coal gets more expensive, nat gas is the cheapest alternative ready at hand. Will their contrary incentives lead them to open warfare? To some extent it already has. Remember those xenophobic ads Sunflower ran in against Gov. Sebelius in Kansas? They were ...
Topics: coal, energy, natural gas (all these topics)

Face It: No coal Students create body paint images for anti-coal contest	Edward Mazria	10 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Emily Bibler. Photo: Architecture 2030. Architecture and design students across the country were challenged by Architecture 2030, Metropolis Magazine, the USGBC and the AIAStudents to face it, literally. Students competed to produce the best body- and face-paint image that conveyed a "no coal" message. Emily Bibler of Ohio Iowa State won the Face Color Award, Jackie Fabella of Cal Poly Pomona won the Face B+W Award, and Miles Courtney of Pra ...
Topics: art, coal, education, energy (all these topics)

Expensive coal Three related stories about coal power	Sean Casten	08 Mar 2008	Gristmill
See if you can connect the dots. First this, from Greenwire ($ub. req'd): West Virginia regulators have approved American Electric Power's plan to build a $2.3 billion clean coal plant. Appalachian Power Co., a subsidiary of Ohio-based AEP, received approval for the project Thursday from the Public Service Commission. Regulators say the 629-megawatt Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle plant is needed to help AEP meet demand for electricity. Then this ($ub. ...
Topics: coal, energy (all these topics)

CSM notes a slowing in the Coal Rush	JMG	08 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The often-outstanding Christian Science Monitor notes a distinct reversal of fortunes (at least here in the U.S.) for The Enemy of the Human Race. The situation is so dire that a coal industry guy has had to resort to the great standby of the corporate toolbox, namely lying:"If they don't start building coal plants, it's going to be an economic prosperity problem for the country," says Richard Storm, CEO of Storm Technologies, an Albemarle, N.C., company that special ...
Topics: coal, energy (all these topics)

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