dirty coal
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Dark Secret of World Water Day: Coal-Fired Plants Drink 1.5 Trillion Gallons
Here’s a sobering fact on World Water Day: Coal-fired power plants use approximately 1.5 trillion gallons of water a year in the US. In many respects, some folks might use more water flicking on their lights, than chugging back a glass of that wondrous stuff. Makes you wonder: Has the EPA ever tabulated the […]
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Humane Society Gives Top Honors to Mountaintop Removal Champion
This might be one of the Humane Society’s cruelest acts against animals, and humanity. In the face of one of the most irreversible and egregious environmental and wildlife catastrophes in the hemisphere, and a blatant disregard for the human rights violations of mountaintop removal, the Humane Society announced today that it will give its “2009 Humane Legislator of the […]
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Will Sen. Jim Webb Fight for Clean Energy or Dirty Coal?
As citizens from around the nation jam the congressional phone lines for 72 hours, calling for comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation, US Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) has emerged as one of the most critical votes for a clean energy future. Webb’s state of Virginia stands on the frontlines of the clean energy and climate debate–and […]
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Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Mike Roselle
The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very like to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?–Henry David Thoreau, Walden He’s sitting in the Southern Regional Jail, in Beaver, West Virginia, […]
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NEWS: Occupation, Day of Action against mountaintop removal
<em>Racketeering: The federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) (18 USC §§ 1961-1968) prohibits (1) acquiring, establishing, or operating an enterprise with illegally derived income, (2) acquiring or maintaining an interest in or control of an enterprise through illegal activity, and (3) using an enterprise to commit illegal acts (Extortion, Blackmail, Etc. , 31A […]
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Collateral Damage of Clean Coal
No American leader has done more to advance a clean energy future than President Obama. Nor has any American president done more to invoke a mandate for stricter workplace safety and environmental regulations. And yet, ever since President Obama first visited my native southern Illinois coalfields in 1997 on a golf outing with a fellow […]
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Earthquake wake-up call in Chicago
Road damage following an earthquake. Photo: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center CollectionI wonder if anyone on President Obama’s new Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage felt a slight rumble of concern when a 3.8-magnitude earthquake struck across Kane County in Illinois on Wednesday. The earthquake, minor compared to the 5.2-magnitude earthquake that shook […]
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Coal Miners Join Historic Rallies to End Mountaintop Removal Today
When oh when will it be over? When will I lay these burdens down? — Dwight Yoakam, Miner’s Prayer As we huddle in our homes on this wintry day, appreciating the warmth generated by coal-fired electricity, we need to listen to Kentucky coal miners Carl Shoupe, Elmer Lloyd and Stanley Sturgill on the true cost […]
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Bring back Van Jones
I miss Van Jones. A lot of us miss President Obama’s former green jobs visionary. That includes coal miners and residents on Coal River Mountain. If President Obama’s brilliant green jobs administrator hadn’t been hounded out of office in a bizarre witch hunt last fall, we would be engaged in an exciting discussion about pursuing […]
