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Coal Ash is So Safe, I’d Eat it on Cereal, Doctor Says

Arsenic has been a known poison for centuries – in fact, it was often used as a murder weapon during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It causes cancer of the skin, lungs, bladder and kidney as well as symptoms like violent bowel pain, bloody vomit, convulsions, delirium, and death.
Yet according to the GOP’s star [...]

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Bottom of the Barrel: Newsweek’s Least Green Companies

Which of the S&P 500 companies are the least environmentally friendly? Newsweek unveiled its Green Rankings last week and while there has been a lot of discussion about the top 5, there’s another story to be told in the bottom 5.
Unsurprisingly, nearly all of the bottom-ranking companies on the Newsweek list are in the energy [...]

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Tennessee Town Still Looks Like a Moonscape After TVA Spill

It’s been nearly 7 months since the residents of Harriman, Tennessee woke up to find their properties – and the once-pristine lakes that could be seen from their windows – engulfed in a toxic mess of wet, gray coal sludge. Sadly, the view from their homes still hasn’t changed much, and their children are beginning [...]

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Coal Company Urges Boycott of Mountaintop Removal-Unfriendly Tennessee

Coal-Mac, a subsidiary of a coal company that has tried in the past to convince people that mountaintop removal mining is “the right thing to do”, has now resorted to urging its employees to cancel vacations to Tennessee because of the state’s anti-mountaintop removal stance. Tennessee, home to the beautiful Smoky Mountains National Park, has [...]

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The Dirty Glory Days are Over: Signs of Peak ‘Cheap’ Coal

The United States can no longer claim to be “The Saudi Arabia of Coal”. That’s according to an analysis by the Wall Street Journal, which states that the days of cheap coal in America are nearly over. It’s a major blow to the coal industry, which has sought to defend itself against the advent of [...]

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Offshore Wind Power Could Replace Coal, says Salazar

Wind power has the ability to not just supplement but possibly entirely replace coal-fired power plants if it were fully developed off the East Coast, says Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. Salazar spoke on Monday at a public hearing in Atlantic City on how America’s offshore areas can be used to meet our energy needs.
And who [...]

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