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Clean Energy Is Good for America, Whether You Believe in Climate Change or Not

November 18, 2009

Posted by Frances Beinecke in Solving Global Warming

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blankenship, cleanenergycommonsense, coalmining, deniers, energyandclimate2009, fgbbook, freidman, globalwarming, greenjobs, jobs, laborunions, massey, mountaintopremoval, nationalsecurity, oiladdiction

On Wednesday, Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship, the head of the fourth largest coal company in the nation, said in an interview that "I deny that there is any science that supports global warming." While it baffles me that...continued

Commies & Atheists: Why the Coal Industry Really Is a Relic of the Past

December 2, 2008

Posted by Frances Beinecke in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

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blankenship, carboncapture, carbonsequestration, cleancoal, coalfiredpowerplants, coalindustry, coalmining, energyefficiency, mountaintopremoval, MTR

Back in the seventies and eighties, I got called names because of the work I did: "tree hugger" was a favorite, so was "bleeding heart." But that was a long time ago, before energy security and green enterprise became mainstream...continued