Tag: coal
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150 March in Eugene to Protest Extractive Industries
CASCADIA FOREST DEFENDER — Protesters marched around Eugene and then back to the University of Oregon where Gill emphasized the importance of putting our bodies on the line to stop extractive industries, and how …
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Obama Nominates Ernest Moniz as Energy Secretary
ECOWATCH — President Obama’s expected nominee for Energy Secretary, Ernest Moniz, has a history of supporting dirty and dangerous energy sources like gas and nuclear power with polluting partners including …
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Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies Topped $620 Billion in 2011
EARTH POLICY INSTITUTE — The energy game is rigged in favor of fossil fuels because we omit the environmental and health costs of burning coal, oil and natural gas from their prices. Subsidies manipulate the game even further. According to …
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Three Coal-Fired Power Plants to Retire in Major Climate and Clean Energy Victory
SIERRA CLUB — Today a coalition of citizen groups, states and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a landmark settlement agreement with American Electric Power requiring AEP to stop burning coal by 2015 at three power plants in …
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Stripmining Black History Month
JEFF BIGGERS — As schools, communities and politicians across the country celebrate Black History Month in February, they will be remiss if their lessons don’t include the coal fields of Fayette County, West Virginia. There, in the 1890s, a teenage African American …