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ACCCE Adds Coal to "Back to School" Supplies List - Because its Cheap!

September 8, 2009

Posted by Pete Altman in Solving Global Warming

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ACCCE, coal, coalash, coalindustry, coalwaste

Will wonders never cease. ACCCE, quickly becoming the Inspector Clouseau of the advocacy world for its misteps and outright stumbles, has discovered a new factoid that it thinks really makes the case for coal. In a blog post and email sent...continued

18 million tons of contaminated coal waste from new coal plants

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...continued

Coal ash spill upriver of Washington DC delivers message in new way

March 10, 2009

Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
coalash, coalwaste, dirtycoal, globalwarming

**Update** The Associated Press is reporting today that most of the slurry spill from the New Page plant hit the riverbank on the West Virginia side of the river, rather than entering the river directly. Bullet dodged? Perhaps, until the next really...continued

The Myth of Clean Coal: Rest in Peace

January 23, 2009

Posted by Pete Altman in Solving Global Warming

Tags:
coalash, coalwaste, dirtycoal, globalwarming, smears, tennessee valley authority, TVA

It just goes to show you that even $10-20 million worth of advertising  won't buy you love. The "clean coal" myth was swamped this December and January by the coal ash spills in Tennessee and Alabama.   Here are just some...continued

Real-life coal disaster pops coal industry pr bubble

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...continued

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Climate Campaign Director
Washington, D.C.
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