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Straight-talk on coal from Brian Williams
“Coal. While you might have heard the phrase ‘clean coal’ during the presidential campaign, it’s actually an oxymoron. Wishful thinking. Coal does not burn cleanly and it’s hugely expensive to make it burn that way.” — NBC anchor Brian Williams, leading into a segment on coal as part of the network’s “Green Week” Here’s the […]
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Pelosi confirms intent to maintain the House global warming committee; Markey stays on
Yesterday, I posted on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s plans for the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, which is scheduled to dissolve at the end of the year. Signs pointed to her intent to keep the committee going for another session. In a press conference today, she confirmed it: It is my intention […]
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Rahm Emanuel: First Obama priority is stimulus via green infrastructure
Incoming chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, speaking to a gathering of CEOs and other business leaders: Mr. Emanuel promised that a major economic stimulus would be "the first order of business" for Mr. Obama when he takes office Jan. 20. The focus of spending will be on infrastructure, specifically "green infrastructure," which he said would […]
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Grist talks to Kansas regulator who took on dirty coal
Grist readers are quite familiar with the coal fight in Kansas, where Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D) earned props from enviros for repeatedly vetoing (and effectively shelving) plans for new coal-fired power plants. But the unsung hero in that battle was Roderick Bremby, the secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, who in October […]
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Actor touts renewable energy 30 years ago
I wanted to post this before editorial found it, because when I see something this cool, I like to plant my flag on it. The following is a segment from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s program "Marketplace," back in 1978. To repeat: Nineteen. Seventy. Eight.
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‘Meet the Press’ takes on cars and energy independence
This Sunday, “Meet the Press” was devoted to the auto industry’s travails and to energy independence. (They decided to go totally counterintuitive and have … T. Boone Pickens as a guest. Isn’t that guy’s 15 minutes over yet?) Also, Thomas Friedman was one of the roundtablers. Here’s the video: [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.1011974&w=425&h=350&fv=launch%3D27751726%26width%3D400%26height%3D320]
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The recycle cycle
A fascinating new video explaining the full cycle of recycling, from innovative recycling startup RecycleBank:
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Ted Turner talks with Lou Dobbs
In this epic Meeting of Blowhards, some good stuff gets said about climate and energy and related matters:
