By Brandon Keim10 May 2011 An activist prankster group called Coal is Killing Kids has struck with a hoax website lampooning the coal industry’s resistance to federal pollution reforms. And science is on their side. The target of their “Coal Cares” site, supposedly offering free Justin Bieber and Dora the Explorer inhalers to children living […]
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Global mercury emissions could grow by 25 percent by 2020 if no action is taken to control them, posing a threat to polar bears, whales and seals and the Arctic communities who hunt those animals for food, an authoritative international study says. The assessment by a scientific body set up by the […]
By Jim Bai and Tom Miles; Editing by Michael Urquhart18 April 2011 BEIJING (Reuters) – Central China’s Hubei province has joined a growing list of regions facing coal shortages, with a warning on Monday that it is very likely to start rationing power this month if coal supplies remain tight and low water stocks continue […]
April 11 (NPR) – The typical American uses 99 gallons of water a day for activities like washing clothes, bathing, toilet-flushing and cooking. But that amount doesn’t even come close to the amount of water used on a daily basis by electrical power plants. Each day, coal, nuclear and natural gas plants use about five […]
Singapore (AFP) April 4, 2011 – A global slowdown in the growth of nuclear power in reaction to the Japan crisis will seriously hamper the fight against climate change, a top International Energy Agency (IEA) official said Monday. IEA chief economist Fatih Birol told AFP that governments must study the implications carefully before making any […]
Poll: What’s the worst thing the Koch Brothers have done? Oil spills: Koch Industries, Inc. was fined $30 million in 2000 to resolve claims related to 300 oil spills across America. Anti-worker: The Kochs have spent more than $34 million to fund groups and individuals that work against workers rights, including WI Gov. Walker. Anti-healthcare: […]
[Background: The fossil fuel industries, notably the Koch brothers, are assaulting the U.S. political system with unprecedented quantities of money. The Republican party has been targeted for infiltration by the industry’s front organization, the Tea Party. Although the Tea Party comprises a small percentage of the G.O.P., the party’s leadership has been forced to pander […]
By SHAILA DEWAN6 January 2009 The coal ash pond that ruptured and sent a billion gallons of toxic sludge across 300 acres of East Tennessee in December 2008 was only one of more than 1,300 similar dumps across the United States — most of them unregulated and unmonitored — that contain billions more gallons of […]
By Bob Johnson, The Associated Press 4 March 2011 Perry County resident Esther Calhoun said her rural area has been ruined by tons of coal ash that have been dumped in a sprawling landfill near Uniontown. Calhoun was in Montgomery this week to argue that a proposed bill to regulate coal ash disposal in Alabama […]
By Timothy B. Hurst August 26, 2010 We hear all kinds of stats thrown around about how much coal-fired electricity generation China has added during its recent period of explosive economic development. The most commonly repeated – and my personal “favorite” – is that China is completing the construction of new coal-fired power plants at […]
