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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

Tags:
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

Putting a Price on Carbon: The Cheapest Way to Make Coal Cleaner

June 5, 2008

Posted by Frances Beinecke in Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
carboncapture, carbonsequestration, climatesecurityact, coalfiredpowerplants, globalwarming, liebermanwarner, markettransformation

The New York Times ran an article last Friday about how high costs are slowing down the development of technology that can capture carbon dioxide from coal-fired power plants. What the article doesn’t discuss is the best way to drive...continued