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November 16, 2009
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Curbing Pollution
, Moving Beyond Oil
- Tags:
- bobbykennedy, cleanenergycommonsense, coalfiredpowerplants, coalindustry, coalmining, fgbbook, globalwarming, kennedy, mountaintopremoval, nuclearpower, townhall
Tomorrow night I have the honor of introducing Bobby Kennedy Jr. at a free event open to the public in New York City. Bobby will be talking about "Our Environmental Future," and I invite you to join us for an...continued→
August 13, 2009
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Green Enterprise
, Solving Global Warming
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- ACCCE, ACES, astroturf, cleanenergy, coalindustry, energyandclimate2009, energyefficiency, globalwarming, greenjobs, oilindustry, townhall
I had been looking forward to the August Congressional recess as a time to engage with lawmakers about the upcoming clean energy legislation and the economic opportunities it would unleash. After all, when representatives are in their home states, they...continued→
January 8, 2009
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Curbing Pollution
, Health and the Environment
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- arsenic, cancer, coalash, coalfiredpowerplants, coalindustry, dirtycoal, EPA, kingstonfossilplant, toxins, TVA
Americans have been assaulted on the airwaves with ads about so-called "clean coal." What happened in East Tennessee, where a breach of a coal ash pond at a power plant send a billion gallons of toxic sludge into nearby communities,...continued→
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→