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Study: Mountaintop Mining Is Destroying More Land for Less Coal
This article discusses how more and more environmental damage is occurring to mine less and less coal. Using satellite images, researchers tracked the scars spreading across Appalachia. They found 3 times more land being stripped per ton of coal than in the 1980s.
Strip mining across the mountaintops of Appalachia is […]
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Zombie Coal Plants Show Why Trump’s Emergency Plan Is No Cure-All
This article discusses how Trump’s stupid policy cannot save the coal industry. Two old Virginia power plants already operate under federal emergency authority. They don’t meet pollution standards, and one failed and has been offline for weeks.
Yorktown, where Lord Cornwallis accepted General Washington’s victory to end the American […]
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Trump replacement for Obama climate plan moves forward
This article discusses how the Trump administration is pushing coal revival by eliminating regulations that protect our health and environment.
The Trump administration is advancing a proposal that would replace President Barack Obama’s principal attempt to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions with a new rule expected to go easier […]
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Coal firms created by bankruptcy plan to recombine
This article discusses how a coal company removed liabilities and debt from its balance sheet, by splitting into 2 companies and declaring bankruptcy. Now, after emerging from bankruptcy, the two companies plan to recombine. The bankruptcy allowed one company to escape about $120 million of reclamation liabilities while the second […]
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Report: Storage Will Be Energy’s Next Big Thing
This article discusses The cost of renewables has been sinking. Harnessing the excess could be huge.
Think the plummeting costs of solar and wind are transforming the energy landscape? Then you should be betting on ways to warehouse that power.
To understand why, consider: Unlike almost all their rivals in the energy-generation space, solar panels and […]
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Study: Premature Birth Rates Drop in California After Coal and Oil Plants Shut Down
This article discusses how shutting down coal and oil energy plants improves the health of pregnant women and their progeny. Within a year of eight coal- and oil-fired power plant retirements, the rate of preterm births in mothers living close by dropped, finds new study on air pollution.
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Friend of Mike Pence and a Coal-Funded Lawyer Form ‘Accountability’ Group to Attack Climate Lawsuits
This article discusses a new climate change denier group trying to keep people from understanding just how bad global warming is. They are doing it in 2 ways: (1) obvious denial statements and fake data, and (2) choosing an acronym that will cause confusion in who they really are.
For […]
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High Percentage of Kindergartens Exposed to Transport Pollutants
This article discusses how worsening air pollution from coal power and urban transport are threatening a high percentage of children across the world.
A recent article in New York Times painted Poland as Europe’s climate villain due to its worsening air pollution as well as plans to further build out its […]
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Nationalizing Coal Plants Could Be A Surprise Gift To Climate Hawks
This article discusses Trump’s plans for coal.
The White House is considering plans to invoke an obscure, Cold War-era law to prop up struggling coal-fired power plants, a move that some say could open the door for Democrats to take radical steps to phase out fossil fuels.
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Coal ash raising concerns over health risks in Puerto Rico
This article discusses the impact that coal ash is having on Puerto Rico. It is not good.
Residents of Guayama, home to Puerto Rico’s only coal-burning power plant for 15 years, have been diagnosed with cancer, heart and respiratory diseases that they fear are related to coal ash exposure. Ivette […]
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