NewsRack: 'Coal' news in 'Energy-Independent' topic for user flenvcenter

Wyoming's pile of coal	16.5.2013	High Country News Most Recent
The story of the state's 10-billionth ton
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Lobster Boat Successfully Blockades 40,000 Ton Coal Shipment	16.5.2013	TreeHugger
Yesterday, two activists moored their tiny lobster boat infront of a giant coal tanker, successfully halting the delivery of 40,000 tons of central Appalachian coal.
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The Lobster Boat vs. The Coal Freighter as Climate Activists Blockade Power Plant	15.5.2013	CommonDreams.org Headlines
Stearing a lobster boat called the Henry David T. , two climate activists on Wednesday attempted to blockade a shipment of West Virginia coal from arriving at Brayton Point Power Station in Massachusetts, New England's largest coal-fired power plant. read ...
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B.C. election: Vote 'yes' to green jobs and 'no' to Enbridge and Kinder Morgan pipelines	14.5.2013	rabble.ca - News for the rest of us
Monday, May 13, 2013 We need people like George Heyman, the former Executive Director of the Sierra Club of BC, to get elected. Last week Van Jones , the founder of the green jobs advocacy group Green for All , was arrested at a rally organized to protest against a major American coal company. What's interesting about this is not just that Van Jones is a CNN correspondent and a former senior staffer for the Obama administration, sometimes called their "green jobs czar." No, what was really interesting is that he was standing shoulder to shoulder with the coal miners fighting to defend their pensions from a hugely wealthy coal company. read ...
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Carl Pope: How Markets Fail	14.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
It is clear that there are far cheaper fuels -- efficiency, solar and wind to replace coal and natural gas in the U.S., and biofuels or electricity elsewhere to reduce oil intensity. So how much $100 fossil fuel can the world afford, climate aside?
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Gas fracking and coal exports: Two sleeper issues that will surge following B.C. election	13.5.2013	rabble.ca - News for the rest of us
Monday, May 13, 2013 "Given the current level of extraction of shale gas and the required power to export these fossil fuels, we’re looking at carbon pollution levels that exceed Alberta's tar sands." There's been a dearth of substantive policy debated and alternatives offered during British Columbia’s election campaign. Transit, education, health care, social welfare, housing -- these and other burning issues have received too little attention. Of more substance has been the debate over proposals to build or expand two tar sands pipelines from Alberta to coastal export terminals. The two leading parties have staked out more or less opposing positions. The Liberals are in favour and the New Democratic Party is opposed (a caveat being the NDP silence on Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion that would see a portion of the tar sands product delivered to U.S. refineries just south of the border at Vancouver.) read ...
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Koalas: The Canary in Australia's Coal Mine?	12.5.2013	Commondreams.org Views
Suzanne York The news of late out of Australia has not been the most encouraging. read more
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B.C.'s political climate is shifting: Why talk of 'jobs vs. environment' no longer holds water	10.5.2013	rabble.ca - News for the rest of us
Friday, May 10, 2013 Framing things as a "jobs versus environment" issue does not hold much water anymore; the biggest threat to livelihoods in B.C. now is the carbon pollution from burning fossil fuels. Something subtle but important has shifted in the climate of B.C politics. Early in the April 29 televised leaders' debate, B.C. NDP leader Adrian Dix addressed climate change, not as an environmental issue for the consideration of future generations, but as a present-day economic and social issue. Dix talked about how people in interior communities are already losing jobs because of trees killed by the pine beetle, which is directly linked to rising temperatures. The fact that the fossil fuel industry is already devastating the interior forestry sector is starting to sink in. In Vancouver, where I live, it is possible to think of rising carbon levels in the atmosphere as a future environmental issue, but in rural B.C., it is a different story. read ...
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The Most Democratic County In America	10.5.2013	Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
SANDY HOOK, Ky. -- In 1988, the band Alabama scored a No. 1 country hit with "Song of the South," Bob McDill's tribute to life...
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Will Hotly Debated Mine Become Alaska's Keystone?	10.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
Kevin McCambly was born and raised in Dillingham, Alaska, just downstream from the proposed Pebble Mine, a massive copper and gold mining project that is...
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Frances Moore Lappe: Break the Ban: Tell a Solutions Story Today!	10.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
With news of Keystone and tar sands and coal-crazy China, it's easy to think that renewable energy is going nowhere, but we'd be so wrong. Between 2008 and 2012, the U.S. nearly doubled its renewables capacity.
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Steve Horn: Interview: Energy Investor Bill Powers Discusses Looming Shale Gas Bubble	9.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
The well production data that Powers picked through on a state-by-state basis demonstrates a "drilling treadmill." That means each time an area is fracked, after the frackers find the "sweet spot," that area yields diminishing returns on gas production on a monthly and annual basis.
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Navajos double-down on coal	4.5.2013	From the Blogs
Urban utilities want out of the coal business. The nation’s biggest tribe wants in.
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Jargon watch: "Unburnable carbon" is important buzz word in energy debate	4.5.2013	TreeHugger
Leaving some fossil fuels in the ground is the oft-overlooked option in debates over energy policy. "Unburned carbon" is new buzz word and important choice in energy debate.
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Greenwash Watch: Is this good design or egregious greenwrapping?	3.5.2013	TreeHugger
Does covering a coal-fired power plant with topiary make it any greener?
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'Make this an election issue': Growth of coal exports alarms environmentalists in B.C.	3.5.2013	rabble.ca - News for the rest of us
Friday, May 3, 2013 Despite garnering little attention in the B.C. election campaign, the sudden swell of B.C.'s role in the global coal trade has become a burning issue for environmental advocates. "We're a secure marine facility," Jeff Scott says, pulling a fluorescent safety vest over his suit jacket, "so I can't have you going out and taking a whole bunch of pictures out there." Gaining access to the Fraser Surrey Docks terminal, the site of a controversial proposal for a new coal export facility, requires me to navigate a checkpoint, deposit my driver's license with the guardhouse as collateral, and wait for official clearance before the tall chain link gate sidles slowly open. read ...
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Jeff Biggers: Cheering Record Coal Exports, Illinois Gov. Quinn Joins Climate Deniers and Big Coal Mayhem	2.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
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.
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EPA Refuses to Curb Deadly Coal Mine Pollution	2.5.2013	Commondreams.org Newswire
The Environmental Protection Agency will not take legally mandated steps to protect clean air or the climate from coal-mine pollution, according to an agency decision announced late Tuesday. In a five-page statement responding to the Center for Biological Diversity and other conservation groups, the EPA refused to establish any schedule or plan for using the Clean Air Act to reduce the millions of tons of air pollutants produced by coal mines because the agency has “other priorities.” read more
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Mixed messages on methane	1.5.2013	From the Blogs
And why you shouldn't make too much of any of them -- yet
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Jeff Biggers: Illinois Ranks As Worst Rogue Coal State: Strip Mine Permit To Serial Violator Stuns Residents	1.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
Whether she runs for governor or not, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan would need nine lives to bring the state's notoriously broken regulatory system into...
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