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Corruption scandal casts shadow over Georgia coal plant projects
Dwight Brown, leader of the Atlanta electric co-op Cobb Electric Membership Corp, was indicted last week on 31 counts of criminal wrongdoing.
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Huge wave of coal plant closures coming, new reports find
New and emerging EPA regulations are going to force a huge wave of coal-plant retirements, two new reports show.
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Indiana coal plant will stop sending soot toward Chicago — in a few years
An especially filthy coal-fired power plant in northwest Indiana will belch its last cloud of soot, carbon, mercury, and other pollutants sometime between 2014 and 2017.
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Kentucky cancels coal plant, new power movement electrifies grassroot alliance
An alliance of Kentucky activists sent a message today: A just transition to clean energy, even in the heartland of coal country Kentucky, is possible
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A cleantech revolution in four easy steps
Armond Cohen outlines the best ways to ease our transition into renewable power.
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Which has a bigger footprint, a coal plant or a solar farm?
It's a common assumption about energy that fossil fuels like coal are "concentrated"� and renewable sources are "diffuse." But it's not true.
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So what's EPA up to with its CO2 regulations?
This week we've gotten a glimpse at EPA's plans for regulating greenhouse gas emissions from "stationary sources" (power plants, factories, etc.).
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China's top-down energy gigantism and a bottom-up American alternative
Instead of envying China for leading on coal plant research, why not focus on what the U.S. does well -- distributed, bottom-up, human-scale innovation?
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Eerie photos of power plants show dark, coal-dependent future [SLIDESHOW]
Photographer Michael Kenna has captured a series of photos of icons of industrial society: power stations.