Christine MacDonald, E Magazine. November 9, 2009. Momentum is building to block new coal-fired power plants and end mountaintop removal mining. Is there enough political will to make the break?
Harvey Wasserman, AlterNet. October 21, 2009. The Senate bill includes a "Clean Energy Development Administration" that could deliver virtually unlimited federal cash to build new reactors and fund other mega-polluters.
Karl Burkart, AlterNet. June 1, 2009. WE Energies has proclaimed that it has captured carbon at a coal-fired plant, but this "success" won't come close to making coal clean.
Jessica Lee, Indypendent. March 2, 2009. Defying a major blizzard, students plan to take the Capitol by storm, with more than 2,500 ready to be arrested.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet. February 14, 2009. The coal industry has spent millions trying to fool the American public, Congress and the president. Here's how to beat the hype.
Erin Brockovich, Robin Greenwald, Huffington Post. January 13, 2009. What does the future hold for the public's health and safety? Overnight, a whole community's lifestyle is gone.
Josh Dorner, Sierra Club AlterNet: Water. January 13, 2009. And what did the famously loquacious industry mouthpiece have to say about the sludge spill? Not a single word.
Bruce Nilles, Sierra Club AlterNet: Water. January 6, 2009. It was a tragedy of epic proportions, and this massive spill reminds us that coal is not clean, and coal is not cheap.
Antrim Caskey, AlterNet. January 5, 2009. With the breaking of a coal waste dam in Tennessee, environmental and human health is threatened by millions of pounds of toxic chemicals.
Tara DePorte, AlterNet. October 31, 2008. A look at whether "clean coal" is actually clean, how the technology works, and whether it is a climate crisis cure.
Simran Sethi, Huffington Post. October 9, 2008. Palin and McCain have always been for it. Joe Biden was sort of against it before he was for it and Barack Obama embraces it.
Davin Hutchins, American News Project. May 30, 2008. Presidential candidates are pushing "clean coal" but many suspect it is causing a rare form of blood cancer.
Jeff Biggers, Huffington Post. January 29, 2008. Despite their inspiring speeches on global warming, they've bought into the sham of coal's reemergence as a "clean" source of energy.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Huffington Post. November 30, 2007. Where does your energy come from and how dirty is it? A new website allows you to see your link to coal.
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