Greenpeace just released a new video aimed at keeping President Obama honest on the contents of his recent powerful speech on climate change, pointing out continued policies that give away coal from public lands for cheap export to China:
Read more in this Huffington Post article by Brendan DeMelle of DeSmogBlog.
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Thursday, August 15, 2013
Friday, August 19, 2011
Beyond Coal
Mike Bloomberg throwing some weight behind the Beyond Coal campaign. Check out the video, and click here to add your name to the pledge to move beyond coal.
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Friday, January 15, 2010
Leveling Appalachia: The Legacy of Mountaintop Removal Mining
The negative impacts of coal are so numerous it can be difficult to hold them all in your head at once - CO2 emissions driving climate change (SP1), toxic coal ash spills (SP2); strip mining & mountain top removal (SP3); the devastating social and economic impacts on miners and local communities (to say nothing of the indirect impacts from climate change, etc.) (SP4) - the list goes on...
For a good, 20-minute look at the story on the ground, check out this video from Yale Environment 360 in collaboration with MediaStorm:
Our best solutions are to dramatically reduce our demand for energy through smart design (of buildings, cities, transportation systems, vehicles, appliances, etc.) to a point where the available alternatives (solar, wind, geothermal, etc.) can meet our needs.
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