On December 2nd a federal court in Asheville NC found the Duke Energy 800 MW Cliffside Coal Power Plant in violation of the Clean Air Act. This decision will force Duke energy to meet pollution control requirements for mercury regulation within the next 70 days. And if they fail to? The court could halt construction of the plant.

The court ruled in favor of conservation groups denying Duke's arguement that the plant qualified for a loophole in the law allowing them to avoid federal pollution regulation.

Want to find out how much coal money your legislators are taking from an industry that has buried more than 1000 miles of streams, and destroyed more than 470 mountaintops in Central Appalachia alone?

FollowTheCoalMoney.org, a joint project of Oil Change International and Appalachian Voices, tracks the dirty coal money funding our Congress.

Yesterday marked the beginning of the G8 Summit in Hokkaido Japan and already climate negotiations are underway. At last years summit, leaders from the eight leading industrial nations pledged to consider a 2050 target for curbing world emissions.

Greenpeace activists pose as industry delegates to gain access to high level coal meetings in NYC.

Today Greenpeace infiltrated the CoalUSA conference, hosted annually by the McClosky Group which they self promote as:

This weeks issue of the Economist tackles the enormous topic of “The future of energy”.

The article adresses solar, geothermal, biofuels, electric cars, nuclear power, and our favorite pipedream technology- carbon storage.

There is a lot of skepticism of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology out there, but now even the industry is admitting that the technology is far from ready. E&ENews reporter Kathering Ling recently wrote on the annual meeting for Edison Electric Institute (EEI). David Ratcliffe, CEO Southern Company was quoted saying the following:

Ever wonder why you are suddenly hearing so much about clean coal? The answer is alarming.

Clean coal is more than an oxymoron, its propaganda!