August 27, 2007 – 5:05 am
Coal
Climate Crisis Coalition
Bush Administration to Announce Rule to Expand Mountaintop Coal Mining. By John M. Broder, The New York Times, August 23, 2007. “The Bush administration is set to issue a regulation on Friday that would enshrine the coal mining practice of mountaintop removal. The technique involves blasting off the tops of mountains and dumping [...]
August 12, 2007 – 2:17 pm
TreeHugger
“Cap and Trade” sounds so mushy. How would the average US voter have any idea at all whether he/she should vote for a Congressional or Presidential candidate who espouses C&T? You just want the nearest coal fired power plants to clean up enough to make life pleasant, fish not mercury contaminated, trees [...]
August 11, 2007 – 3:12 am
TreeHugger
“The province of Ontario, Canada’s biggest energy user, aims to close its last coal-fired power plant in 2014 and become the only jurisdiction in North America to completely phase out coal, a strategy that some critics deride as reckless and others say is overly timid. The coal plan is the major plank in the climate [...]
EarthJustice
Federal Rural Utilities Service making a risky investment that will increase greenhouse gas pollution
July 23, 2007
Coal power station
Photo by David Parsons
Washington, DC — Conservation groups, represented by Earthjustice, have filed a lawsuit challenging federal financing of a new coal-fired power plant that would increase global warming for decades into the future. The Rural Utilities [...]
Critics of President George W Bush’s 6 plus years of inaction on global climate change have long suspected the lurking shadow of Big Oil behind his administration’s tactics of delay and denial. Now comes the proof of petroleum’s greasy little fingerprints all over Bush’s energy policy, thanks to the revealing article The Secret Campaign of [...]
TreeHugger
When we were kids there was this playground taunt…when one kid called another a “name,” the response was he who says it, is it…that came to mind on reading of the name calling that surfaced at a recent coal industry conference. But the future of the earth is no school yard game. And infighting based [...]
From: Climate Crisis Coalition
Coal Execs Fight Back
By Steve James, Reuters, July 2, 2007.
“U.S. coal mining companies, which for years have been branded the bad guys of global warming, are fighting back. They are questioning not only the science but also the motives of some of the big-name corporations who have made well-publicized commitments to cleaning [...]
Climate Crisis Coalition
Science Panel Finds Fault With Estimates of Coal Supply.
Matthew L. Wald, The New York Times, June 21, 2007.
“The United States may not have nearly as much coal as is popularly believed, and mining the remaining resources may be more dangerous for workers and the environment than current operations, the National Academy of Sciences [...]
TreeHugger
China’s plans to put part of its abundant coal supply to use as methanol are likely being scrapped, over concerns about the great costs and energy required to liquefy coal. That coal mining is already quite dirty and that the coal-to-liquid (CTL) process produces large amounts of pollutants and greenhouse gases was not explicitly mentioned [...]
Most of my day Sunday was spent researching the global industrial revolution. Upon reading various articles I realized then, most of us don’t really think about why Climate Change is occurring. Do any of us really know enough about what occurred during the global industrial revolution? No, it won’t change the past, [...]
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