Posted by Pete Altman in Solving Global Warming
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→
Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming
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→
Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution , Solving Global Warming
**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→
Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming
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...continued→
Posted by Pete Altman in Solving Global Warming
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→
Posted by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
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→
