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Dirty Business
A Film Investigation of the Coal Industry
8 Apr 10
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The Center for Investigative Reporting is releasing a new film that looks at the "clean coal" myth and the true cost of running our country on dirty coal energy. The story is presented by Jeff Goodell, who has blogged here and authored the book Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future.
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Activists Pull Elaborate ‘Fossil Fools Day’ Prank on Coal Burning Xcel Energy
Spoof Website, Press Release and Letter Announce that Xcel Will Completely Abandon Fossil Fuels
1 Apr 10
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Fossil Fool’s Day actions all over the world. Here’s one from Denver

Spoof Website, Press Release and Letter Announce that Xcel Will Completely Abandon Fossil Fuels

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EPA Uses Science, Health and Environmental Justice to Guide New Rules on Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
Appalachians Hail Announcement by Lisa Jackson as Victory for Communities and Clean Water Act
1 Apr 10
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reposted from the Understory

by Amanda Starbuck

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Cracks in Big Coal’s Empire
Wall Street and Washington Feeling the Heat
1 Sep 10
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
-Gandhi

Don Blankenship’s empire is crumbling, rapidly.  Mountaintop removal coal mining may well be on it’s way out.  The money’s drying up.  Appalachia is rising in Washington D.C.  And we’re seeing some VERY interesting developments on Wall Street and in Washington.

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Moutaintop Removal is Dirty

Coen Brothers on 'Clean Coal'