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First it was <a href="http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/blogs/shapley/debate-coal-47021901">“Democracy, brought to you by coal”</a>.
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Today the Sierra Club <a href="http://action.sierraclub.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=68162.0" title="Press Release 8/26" target="_blank">sent a letter to the U.S. Department of
Agriculture</a> expressing concern about the USDA's approvals for electric
cooperatives to pursue private financing for coal plants without any
environmental analysis.
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The head of the largest privately-owned coal company in the world,
Peabody Energy, admitted to his company’s support of the massive
green-washing project by the coal industry in a <i>USA Today</i> <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2008-08-18-peabody-coal_N.htm">article</a> today.
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<h1 class="title"><a href="/dirty-coal-lobby-buys-dc">Dirty Coal Lobby Buys D.C.</a></h1> <h2 class="subtitle"></h2> <span class="submitted"></span>
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<b>The public isn’t buying the coal lobby’s high-priced ad campaign. </b>
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They know that coal is dirty and has remained so for the last century. But it seems to be falling on deaf ears amongst our politicians in Washington, D.C.
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UK Parliament and Royal Society: Set date for carbon capture
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In what could be considered "calling the industry’s bluff"
on so-called clean coal, a UK Parliament committee described industry claims that coal is clean as a “fig leaf.”
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<h1 class="title"><a href="/coal-plant-costs-higher-and-higher-atmosphere-gets-dirtier-and-dirtier">Coal plant costs: higher and higher as the atmosphere gets dirtier and dirtier</a></h1> <h2 class="subtitle"></h2> <span class="submitted"></span>
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Not only is "clean coal" dirty, it will only get more expensive.</h2>
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<h1 class="title"><a href="/coal-doesnt-come-cheap">Coal doesn’t come cheap</a></h1> <h2 class="subtitle"></h2> <span class="submitted"></span>
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What is the greatest public relations goal of those pushing new coal plants? Its not convincing Americans that “coal is clean”. Despite multi-million dollar <a href="http://www.americascoalpower.org/">deceptive "coal is clean" ad campaigns</a> most Americans know that coal is just as dirty as it was a few decades ago. <br />
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“No longer cheap - so what next” read the title of the article I was reading.
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