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Today in coal: Americans hate it, India hates it, Siberia hates it
You hate it. I hate it. We all hate it for ... ice ... cream. (Oops, that didn't work.)
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Mr. Romney thinks we should give big oil companies another $3.8 billion a year in tax breaks
Romney is giving oil executives a good reason to vote for him. (Making, by our count, 465,361 such reasons.)
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Good news for ExxonMobil investors!
The company made more in one hour over the last three months than three average college grads will make in their lifetimes.
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Coal company changes its mind about sworn testimony, decides a big pile of coal ash outside is just fine
Prairie State does a little tiptoe around democracy and its promises about coal-ash disposal.
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Keystone XL is basically your douchey ex-boyfriend
What would Keystone XL look like as a human being? Probably how he's portrayed in this video.
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Uncommon headlines: Rising Republican star (Chris Christie!) embraces solar
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie signs a big solar bill, demonstrating the bipartisan value in supporting renewables.
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U.S. lays out the welcome mat for solar on public lands
By identifying 17 sites in the West for solar installation, the government hopes to vastly increase the supply of renewable energy.
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What I left out when I wrote about lowball renewable energy projections
My recent post about off-base energy projections glossed over the main reason that renewable energy has grown faster than predicted: policy. Good policy works!
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Another reason to bug out: Drought puts electrical production at risk
Traditional fossil-fuel-based power generation requires an enormous amount of water. No water, no power.
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We’re ripping up our mountains to ship coal overseas. Maybe we shouldn’t?
New research demonstrates the scale of American coal exports and the cost we pay. Happily, we're not entirely powerless.
