Tag: coal
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Moving Beyond Coal in Central Appalachia
Appalachian Voices By Brian Sewell The litany of voices pointing to the writing on the wall for the Central Appalachian coal industry continues to grow. They’re saying the same thing in almost every way imaginable, and have been for some time. Watching coal production decline and demand shift as other energy sources out-compete coal domestically,…
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Clean Energy Proponents Fight Rollbacks in Renewable Energy Policies
SIERRA CLUB — Earlier this year, the Louisiana Public Service Commission abandoned new energy efficiency rules in a bid to rollback progress on clean energy and efficiency. Not only did the commission scrap a program that will help citizens …
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Appalachians Rally in DC to Demand Clean Water and an End to Mountaintop Removal
APPALACHIA RISING — Citizens from across the country traveled to the nation’s capitol today to urge an end to mountaintop removal coal mining, a radical form of strip mining in Appalachia that has destroyed more than 500 mountains and buried or poisoned more than 2,000 miles of streams in Central Appalachia …
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BREAKING: Another Coal Export Terminal Bites the Dust
POWER PAST COAL — “This is another huge victory for the people of Oregon and another blow to the coal companies. The evidence is in that dirty coal export plans are not viable in the Pacific Northwest. Now families across …
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Climate Denying Governor Touts Record Coal Exports
JEFF BIGGERS — Within hours of renowned climate scientists announcing a staggering milestone in carbon dioxide emissions, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn rolled out the booster wagons for Big Coal and celebrated his state’s five-fold increase in record coal exports …