Last week, NPR took a deeper look at the natural gas boom in the U.S. The special series, “The Fracking Boom: Missing Answers,” questions what the gas boom is doing to the air and water in communities where fracking has become a household name…
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Fox News and Fox Business star in the coal industry’s newest ad attacking the Obama administration. Relying heavily on footage from Fox, the ad promotes the Fox narrative that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is waging a “war on coal”…
It’s bad enough that the Obama administration pawns publicly-owned coal for export, and seriously entertains approval of the tar sands pipeline. It’s as if the Obama administration wants to push climate pollution…
There’s no better example of the warriors working toward a sustainable future than the 700 people who attended River Rally…
That’s why yesterday, climate activists joined a movement fighting many of Bank of America’s short-sighted investment policies: racist and predatory lending, robo-signed foreclosures, loans for mountaintop removal…
Bank vs. America Showdown: Protests Planned at Bank of America Shareholders’ Meeting
Rainforest Action Network
05-08-2012
On Wednesday May 9, more than 1,500 people from a broad coalition of workers, seniors, families fighting foreclosure, students, the unemployed, environmentalists and more—will converge in Charlotte…
CCS technology is worth exploring as one of a large array of potential strategies for slowing the buildup of CO2 in the atmosphere. But as this report demonstrates, right now there’s little progress in realizing this potential. A technology capable of permanently sequestering…
“Oregon and Washington leaders are faced with a choice between healthy communities with a clean energy future or becoming tied to trafficking coal, the most toxic fuel on earth,” stated Robert F. Kennedy, Jr…
Quakers Close PNC Bank Doors With Crime Scene Tape on 200 Mile Walk
Earth Quaker Action Team
05-05-2012
Two dozen Quakers and Lancaster, PA residents rallied in protest of PNC’s investment in mountaintop removal coal mining and fracking on May 5 at the PNC bank on 1356 Columbia Ave…
Warren Buffett, the third wealthiest man on the planet (net worth: $44 billion), often referred to as the “Oracle of Omaha,” is the target of a May 5 action called for by Stop Coal B.C. Well, not Buffett directly, but a rail company he owns through his…
“Corporations must understand that the use and demand for coal from bombing mountains in Appalachia is not only destroying one of the oldest most bio-diverse mountain ranges in the United States…
This morning, activists from Greenpeace, RAMPS (Radical Action for Mountain People’s Survival), Katuah Earth First! and Keepers of the Mountains Foundation blocked a coal train en route to the Marshall Steam Station…
EVENT: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Headlines Rally against Exporting Dirty Coal
Columbia Riverkeeper
05-03-2012
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. leads a noon rally in Portland to expose controversial plans that threaten Oregon and Washington with dangerous coal exports. A strong proponent of clean energy and a vocal critic of the coal industry’s environmental…
I’ve been giving lectures on Peak Oil for over a decade now, and always look forward to the question period after the main show. Here are the top 11, along with brief sample replies and some resources for further reading…
Groups File Suit over Largest Coal Plans Ever Approved by U.S. Interior Department
WildEarth Guardians
05-02-2012
The challenged leases threaten to lead to more than 3.3 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide, which would be like cutting down more than 400 million acres of forest—an area roughly four times the size of Texas…
In the past two years alone, Bank of America has pumped $6.74 billion into the U.S. coal industry according to Bloomberg data. The Bank of America Stadium is where President Obama will accept the Democratic Party’s nomination to a…
The largest banks in the country, including Bank of America, Citi and Wells Fargo, received failing grades today as the lead financiers of the coal industry. These banks are the ATMs for a dirty industry that is bad for health and bad for business…
Forty-Nine Coal Plants Acknowledge Groundwater Contamination
Environmental Integrity Project
04-30-2012
Some of these plants were under the radar, and had never been identified before by EPA or in our earlier reports on ash ponds and landfills. EPA’s Office of Solid Waste is still grinding away on proposed standards for coal ash disposal—more than three years after…
Bank of America is the top financier of the U.S. coal industry, the top forecloser on American homes and one of the biggest holders of student loan debt. In the lead-up to BoA’s May 9 Shareholder Meeting, environmental and economic justice…
Oklahoma has significant clean energy potential, which could power the state while protecting public health. Oklahoma’s wind resources rank ninth in the U.S., with more than 50,000 megawatts of wind power potential…
Today Greenpeace activists are demonstrating at Apple stores in San Francisco, New York and Toronto asking Apple to “Clean our Cloud” as part of a campaign to get the company to power its massive data centers with renewable energy instead of coal…
State of Charge: Electric Vehicles and Global Warming Emissions
Union of Concerned Scientists
04-24-2012
Electric vehicles (EVs) burn no gasoline and have no tailpipe emissions, but producing the electricity used to charge them does generate global warming emissions. The amount of these emissions, however, varies significantly based…
We aim to mobilize millions of people around the globe who love the convenience and functionality of the cloud, but don’t want this great 21st-century technology to be powered by a 19th-century power source like coal…
The cancellation of Plant Ben Hill marks 168 total coal plant proposals cancelled across the U.S. due to changing market conditions, legal challenges and local opposition. In December 2011, New Jersey-based LS Power cancelled the…
Three investigations of the tragedy concluded that the company allowed highly explosive methane and coal dust to build up inside the mine, where it was ignited by a spark from an improperly maintained piece of…
One of the most powerful and endearing parts of the film follows Annenberg Weingarten’s visit to Marsh Fork Elementary School, which is threatened by toxic coal dust and a massive coal slurry impoundment hanging above its premises behind…
Community Groups File Lawsuit for Federal Coal Ash Protections
Environmental Integrity Project
04-05-2012
Three decades since EPA last reviewed the coal ash disposal standards and over three years since the TVA Kingston spill, citizens still lack basic protections from dumping of toxic ash. Meanwhile, toxic dumping continues to rise…
After all, we’re talking at least $10 billion in freebies and, depending on what you count, possibly as much as $40 billion annually in freebie cash for an energy industry already making historic profits…
The consent decree establishes firm, enforceable deadlines for action on plans to clean up air pollution in 37 states and the District of Columbia and Virgin Islands. The Clean Air Act requires these plans to curb haze-causing pollution…
The 99% Spring Is Here—Let’s Take the Fight to Big Oil, Gas and Coal
Oil Change International
04-02-2012
During the week of April 9-15, in small towns and big cities all across America, 100,000 people will come together for an unprecedented national movement-wide nonviolent direct action training. We’ll learn to tell the story of…
Legislators Blow Another Opportunity to Protect Mountains from Coal Mining
Appalachian Voices
03-28-2012
Whoever votes “no” to passage of HB 0291/SB 0577 will be on record as supporting this wanton destruction. They will not be able to argue that they did it for business, because mountaintop removal is bad for business—it props up a few jobs while wiping out many jobs…
