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Updated Fact sheets on Coal

Here are some fact sheets Greenpeace has pulled together on topics to do with coal. Here are two new ones on Coal Ash, a basic fact sheet on Coaland one on the clean coal myth.


Reintroduced Clean Water Act Could Mean the end of Toxic Coal Water

It's official: The first shot has been fired in the legislative battle to end the devastating practice of mountaintop removal mining in central Appalachia.

With the quickly growing and extraordinary nationwide support of over 115 co-sponsors, including 17 members of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee in the United States House of Representatives, US Rep. John Yarmuth from Kentucky's embattled state of coal joined US Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) and Republican US Rep. Dave Reichert (R-WA) in reintroducing the Clean Water Protection Act today.


Clean Coal is a Joke

A little Christmas humor from online personality Rob Cottingham at Social Signal who knows all too well that clean coal is a joke. 2008-12-23-cleancoalchristmascartoon.gif


If coal is clean, why's it still causing black lung?

Three more retired coal miners died of black lung today. Over 105,000 Americans have suffered and died from black lung related diseases; 10,000 miners, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, have died from black lung in the last decade.


Top coal CEO pessimistic about carbon capture and storage

One of the most compelling chapters in the PBS Frontline 2-hour special on global warming that aired earlier this week was the segment on America's Addiction to Coal. PBS dives headfirst into the myth of clean coal and pretty much tears it apart using something we don't often see these days when it come US energy issues: facts.

And the most complete take-down of "clean coal" in the segment came from the CEO of the second largest coal electricity company in the US.


New poll finds 2 in 3 voters opposed to mountaintop removal

A new national poll released today (pdf) finds that 85% of voters in the US are concerned about the destructive practice of mountaintop removal minging for coal.


New report outlines major risks of "clean coal"

The Union of Concerned Scientists has released a report today outlining the considerable risks associated with so-called "clean coal" and carbon capture and storage technology (pdf.)


Mike Brune on the Clean Coal Contradiction

Rainforest Action Network's executive director Mike Brune has a great op-ed out on the idiocy of the idea that coal is somehow clean:


Government vs. coal industry on so-called "clean coal"

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