January 19, 2008 – 4:30 am
EarthJustice
January 17, 2008
Washington, D.C. — In an agreement announced today, Massey Energy will pay $20 million in fines levied against them by the U.S. EPA for thousands of Clean Water Act permit violations associated with their mining operations. The agreement comes after the federal government found that Massey illegally dumped coal slurry waste, rubble, wastewater […]
January 12, 2008 – 4:24 am
Earth Justice
Coal-generated power is one of the largest sources of global warming gasses in the United States. But it’s not just emissions from coal-fired plants that pose a problem; coal creates cradle-to-grave environmental impacts—from mountaintop removal mining to toxic ash waste.
In Appalachia, whole communities and ecosystems are destroyed when coal is extracted by blowing up […]
December 3, 2007 – 4:26 am
Kalama facility would have spewed millions of tons of CO2 yearly
November 28, 2007
EarthJustice
Olympia, WA — Consumer and clean-energy advocates are applauding Tuesday’s decision by Washington state siting officials to halt consideration of a proposed coal-fueled power plant in Kalama.
Members of the state’s Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council (EFSEC) unanimously rejected developer Energy Northwest’s alleged plan […]
November 23, 2007 – 4:14 am
Climate Crisis Coalition
Beijing News, November 21, 2007. “An underground fire that has consumed more than 12.43 million tonnes of coal in northwest China has been extinguished after more than 50 years. The Coalfield Fire Fighting Project Office of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Tuesday announced the fire in the Terak field had been finally doused, saving an estimated […]
November 13, 2007 – 4:03 am
ScienceDaily (Nov. 8, 2007) — Emissions from coal-fired power plants may be an important source of water pollution and fish contamination, say researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.
A new study found higher-than-Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-recommended levels of mercury and elevated levels of selenium in channel catfish caught in a rural […]
November 5, 2007 – 7:14 am
TreeHugger
Climate change is powerfully symbolized by severe drought. Extended, widespread drought can make potable water scarce. Desalination plants are energy intensive and expensive to build and run: the several recently build or planned for Australia may be taken as a sign of climate change desperation. Coal rules Australian exports and politics. So, each time Australia […]
November 1, 2007 – 5:41 am
Oceana protecting the worlds oceans
Most global warming pollution comes from burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas) including driving cars and trucks. Any serious effort to deal with global warming must involve changes in the way we use and produce energy, including the development of more fuel-efficient vehicles.
The most recent report by the Intergovernmental […]
October 23, 2007 – 11:05 am
Lately, my mind has been obsessing over gaps …
The gap between the rosy colored fictions of global warming deniers and the the paint it black reality of the scientific evidence predicting dire consequences of continued inaction.
The gap between the real needs of our society and the upside-down priorities of our government’s funding choices.
The gap […]
October 12, 2007 – 3:44 pm
GreenPeace
11 October 2007
Greenpeace painted “Smoking Kills” on the smoke stacks of the Kolaghat Thermal Power Station.
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Kolkata, India — Today, Greenpeace India activists scaled a 76 metre (250ft) smokestack spewing carbon dioxide at the Kolaghat coal fired power station, to paint the message “SMOKING KILLS”. No, we’re not talking about cigarettes - we’re pointing the […]
September 8, 2007 – 4:05 pm
Photo credit: davipt
TreeHugger
The coal industry is very good at touting new technology and less good at actually doing anything about it. There is new technology that’s available now, called IGCC, integrated gasification combined cycle, a kind of gasification of coal. But the industry has resisted building these plants. They prefer to tout these plants that […]
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