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April 16, 2009
Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Green Enterprise
, Health and the Environment
, Nuclear Weapons, Waste and Energy
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- climatechange, dirtycoal, dirtyfuels, energyandclimate2009, globalwarming, smears, uschamberofcommerce
The US Chamber of Commerce has been drinking its own Kool-Aid again, and trying this time to get members of Congress to think it's green tea. The Chamber is attempting to convince policymakers that burdensome regulations are blocking clean energy...
March 12, 2009
Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- coal, coalash, coalwaste, dirtycoal, globalwarming
Today NRDC is publishing new data on the contaminated coal waste that more than eighty proposed coal-fired power plants would create if built. We are also publishing data on waste from existing coal plants, including our estimates of the toxic...
March 6, 2009
Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution
, Health and the Environment
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- coalwaste, dirtycoal, tennessee valley authority, tva
There's some encouraging news this week that the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) may swear off wet fly ash storage at coal-fired power plants, but who knows if we can trust them to do so when the heat is off months...
December 30, 2008
Posted by Pete Altman in Health and the Environment
- Tags:
- bigcoal, climatechange, dirtycoal, donblankenship, globalwarming
When we found the video footage from Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship's now infamous speech in West Virginia last month, we didn't quite know what to expect. Now that the video has been viewed by thousands and thousands of people...
December 23, 2008
Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution
, Health and the Environment
, Living Sustainably
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- ACCCE, coalash, coalwaste, dirtycoal, globalwarming, reality
It is always a headache for corporate pr flacks when reality intrudes and negates months of planning and millions in spending trying to persuade the public of something that just isn't so. So the flacks at coal front-group ACCCE (pronounce...
November 20, 2008
Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution
, Health and the Environment
, Solving Global Warming
All the coal money in the world can't cover up the fact that coal fired power plants are one of our dirtiest and most dangerous energy sources. Coal-fired power plants are the United States' single biggest pollution problem, the source of...
October 30, 2008
Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution
, Green Enterprise
, Health and the Environment
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- capandtrade, climatechange, economy, financialcrisis, greenjobs, greenrecovery
One of the most bizarre arguments made by the "let's not solve global warming" crowd is that doing so will hurt the poor (about whom, mysteriously enough, these voices seem to remain pretty unconcerned when almost any other topic is on...
