Posted by Theo Spencer in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming
People go to Nevada to win big, but sometimes they end up losing big. That's what just happened to the coal industry. The first shoe dropped on February 9th, when NV Energy (the company formerly known as Sierra Pacific...
Posted by Theo Spencer in Curbing Pollution , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment
If you spent most of your time swanning around on the New York socialite circuit ... got featured on MSNBC.com for having one of the most extravagent beachfront homes among the world's "filthy rich" ... and smiled for cameras all...
Posted by Theo Spencer in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming
Another week, another nail in the coffin of dirty coal. A big, big nail. NV Energy (the company formerly known as Sierra Pacific Resources) has shelved plans to build a 1,500 megawatt coal-fired power plant -- the controversial Ely Energy...
Posted by Theo Spencer in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming
If President-elect Obama and the new Congress want to see firsthand why dirty coal is not the energy solution for America, they need look no further than the coal-fired power plant proposed for Virginia's nearby Wise County. Last week,...
Posted by Theo Spencer in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming
Since the first coal-fired power plant ash pollution spill in Tennessee right before Christmas and continuing through the second coal ash spill last Friday in Alabama, a huge amount of media and lawmaker attention has been devoted to the latest...
Posted by Theo Spencer in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming
The Bush Administration's "midnight rule" change to allow more mountaintop removal coal mining may have grabbed a lot of attention last week, but that likely short-term win for Big Coal was overshadowed by some bad news that isn't going away...
Posted by Theo Spencer in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming
President-Elect Barack Obama may never have said that he planned to "bankrupt" the coal industry. But that doesn't mean that he intends to let coal-fired power plants--one of the main causes of global warming--off the hook. In fact, Obama energy advisor Jason...
Posted by Theo Spencer in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
The new rap on the clean energy revolution needed to drive the American economy to the next level is that it will fall victim to one (or both) of two factors: the credit crunch or falling fuel prices. But that...
Posted by Theo Spencer in Curbing Pollution , Solving Global Warming
Let’s get one thing straight: Coal is not cheap. And since coal power plants generate half of America’s electricity, that’s not good news. Especially when you consider coal prices only look to vault upwards in the future. Thanks to the...
