Subtitle: At least, that is what the label read. Do you think it was one of the Yes Men?
As this blog recently observed again, wind power to mitigate climate change is insufficient alone, nevertheless, supplanting coal-fired electric power with electric power from [...]
Accelergy Corporation, an advanced coal-to-liquids company, has formed a strategic partnership with the Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) at the University of North Dakota. Under the terms of a new agreement, Accelergy will license EERC’s proprietary technology as part of its Coal Biomass to Liquids (CBTL) process to [...]
This is the weekly post from Bruce Nilles, director of Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign.
How many people have to be sickened or killed before we get strong coal ash regulations in the U.S.? I ask this during a week very full of news on coal ash – the by-product [...]
Federal judges to West Virginia: No coal, no wind
I see where federal Judge Chuck Chambers’s war on coal — 500 coal miners in Clay County (population 10,000) are the latest casualties — finally got some national attention.
“The Environmental Protection Agency is already holding 79 surface mining permits in [...]
Australia-based underground coal gasification (UCG) company Linc Energy (earlier post) has signed an exclusive agreement with the UK-based alkaline fuel cell technology company AFC Energy Plc and its related company, B9 Coal (earlier post). The agreement gives Linc Energy the exclusive right to test the AFC Fuel [...]
Yesterday Day 2, Glen interviewed several of [...]
Here in the Northwest, coal feels like someone else’s problem. Maybe the Appalachian miner, a Wyoming rancher or someone watching their asthmatic kid gasp for clean air among the Midwest’s dirty coal-fired power plants.
By comparison, flipping a light switch here makes us feel almost virtuous. [...]
From Kentucky Green.com:
More than 90 percent of the electricity used in Kentucky and Indiana comes from burning coal. Kentucky is the third-largest coal-producing state, while Indiana ranks eighth.
President Barack Obama has said he will propose in Copenhagen that the U.S. aim to reduce emissions by 2020 to 17 percent below 2005 levels.
Obama [...]
China’s National Development and Reform Commission has approved the takeover of Australian coal company Felix Resources Ltd. by the state-owned Yanzhou Coal Mining Co Ltd, China’s fourth-largest coal producer. The multi-billion-dollar deal is the largest approved for a Chinese firm to buy an Australia raw material provider, according [...]
Writing in last Thursday’s West Virginia Metro News that “the time has come to have an open and honest dialogue about coal’s future in West Virginia”, US Senator Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia) issued a stinging rebuke of the coal industry’s recent political tactics, challenging the industry to transition away [...]
The US Department of Energy has selected three new projects with a total value of $3.18 billion to accelerate the development of advanced coal technologies with carbon capture and storage at commercial-scale. DOE’s investment of up to $979 million, including funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, will [...]
Mobility Choice, a new project of the Institute for Analysis of Global Security (IAGS), released its 10-point Blueprint for Mobility Choice outlining a market-oriented approach to expanding competition among transportation modes for the purpose of reducing oil’s strategic value.
Mobility Choice brings together Anne Korin and Gal Luft, co-directors of [...]
Jakarta Globe. Sasol and the Indonesian government have signed a preliminary agreement to study the viability of developing a coal-to-liquids facility project in Indonesia, with estimated project cost of more than $10 billion. If the project goes forward, Sasol said it may produce approximately 80,000 barrels per day of [...]
Washington state’s Environmental Priorities Coalition has released their 2010 Environment Priorities. These are the key issues that the entire Washington state environmental movement are going to drive forward via team offense.
The three 2010 environmental priorities are:
Safe [...]t r u t h o u t warns that aging coal plants take a heavy environmental toll. U.S. power plants dumped 2.56 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the environment in 2007 — and much of that came from the nation’s older coal-fired plants.
An Idea for the Job Summit: Stop the War on Coal
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