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Van Jones' Vision of Green Jobs Will Endure

September 9, 2009

Posted by Frances Beinecke in Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
dirtycoal, economicstimulus, economy, foxnews, greeneconomy, greenjobs, oilindustry, powershift, vanjones

Van Jones has been hit by a nasty smear campaign designed to discredit him and his goal of creating millions of green jobs for Americans. The intensity of Glenn Beck's attacks shows once again the untold lengths the far right...continued

Household Trash Is Managed Better than the TVA’s Coal Ash

January 8, 2009

Posted by Frances Beinecke in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming

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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

The Twilight of Dirty Coal

February 11, 2008

Posted by Frances Beinecke in Curbing Pollution , Solving Global Warming

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californiautilities, citigroup, coalfiredpowerplants, dirtycoal, globalwarmingpollution, investmentbanks, jpmorganchase, morganstanley, wallstreet

Many of the issues we work on take decades to get the results we want. But at other times, things begin to fall into place with surprising speed. That’s happening now with dirty coal.Over the past year, one after another...continued