]> http://www.greenedia.com/tags/coal Blog Articles Tagged with 'coal' at http://www.greenedia.com en http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/watthead/154466?rsstype=tag&tag=coal Coal sludge contains dangerously elevated concentrations of arsenic, EPA saysIt's been nearly two weeks since a torrent of over a billion gallons of coal ash sludge spilled out of an impoundment pond near a massive coal plant in Harriman, TN, but the... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/watthead/154466?rsstype=tag&tag=coal Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/watthead/154467?rsstype=tag&tag=coal Cross-posted from It's Getting Hot in Here - dispatches from the youth climate movement, by Richard Graves, founder of Fired Up Media.One week ago, Kingston, Tennessee, woke up to find that over one billion gallons of coal ash sludge had surged out o... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/watthead/154467?rsstype=tag&tag=coal Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:39:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/153930?rsstype=tag&tag=coal Filling the coal-fired stove in Sugarloaf, PA; Laura Pedrick for the NYTThe New York Times covers the return of coal as a heating source in American houses. Problematic in some ways and difficult to handle, coal is nonetheless a cheap, plentiful, min... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/153930?rsstype=tag&tag=coal Sat, 27 Dec 2008 13:34:49 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-tech-blog/153600?rsstype=tag&tag=coal At our company Christmas party this year we played Carbon Trading, The Game. Bascially, I devised a simple cap and trade game in a power sector, and then we played out four rounds to see what happened. The results were an interesting summary of how... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-tech-blog/153600?rsstype=tag&tag=coal Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:35:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/153707?rsstype=tag&tag=coal We were expecting a little better from a story called U.S. Energy Industry Is Wary of Obama, although we think almost all industries are wary of a major change in political authority. Priorities are bound to shift and they have to hope it isn't away... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/nei-nuclear-notes/153707?rsstype=tag&tag=coal Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:15:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/watthead/153834?rsstype=tag&tag=coal Let's see how the clean coal PR hucksters at the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity try to spin this tragic news: a retention pond holding toxic coal ash slurry burst Monday in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing over half a billion gallo... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/watthead/153834?rsstype=tag&tag=coal Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:06:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/153256?rsstype=tag&tag=coal Traffic is a contributor to dirty air in Turkey's capital. Photograph by bddemir via flickr.In December 1952, the city of London was beset by what is now known as the Great Smog or killer fog. It was a particularly chilly winter that year, so resid... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/153256?rsstype=tag&tag=coal Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:18:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/153260?rsstype=tag&tag=coal Photo Marshall Astor @ flickr.Two facts are repeated endlessly in the Internet-based news stories about Jeremy Piven, the celebrity and actor who left the David Mamet production Speed the Plow due to his doctor's report that he had exceedingly hi... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/153260?rsstype=tag&tag=coal Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:52:58 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/152918?rsstype=tag&tag=coal This post started as a comment on the EfT comment section. It got way too long for a comment, so I decided to turn it into a blog post. I have written everything I have to say here before. But I flatter myself that these things are important, and ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/152918?rsstype=tag&tag=coal Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:59:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/r-squared-energy-blog/153208?rsstype=tag&tag=coal In case you are just venturing out of your cave for the first time in a week, you are probably aware that President-elect Obama has announced his new energy team:Obama names energy teamThe team includes Nobel Prize winning physicist Steven Chu as Sec... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/r-squared-energy-blog/153208?rsstype=tag&tag=coal Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:02:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-capital/152644?rsstype=tag&tag=coal Among the many other things climate negotiators are failing to achieve in their two-week confab in Poland is a way to bring clean coal closer to reality. And that, as much or more than the high-profile mudslinging between rich and poor countries, cou... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-capital/152644?rsstype=tag&tag=coal Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:04:58 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-capital/152639?rsstype=tag&tag=coal So Steven Chu, President-elect Obamas likely choice to head the Department of Energy, is a proponent of energy efficiency and conservation as the first step in rejigging Americas energy mix. But since conservation alone wont do it, what are his ideas... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-capital/152639?rsstype=tag&tag=coal Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:03:09 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/152171?rsstype=tag&tag=coal When countries go broke they run the printing presses to print more money. In the United States money is not literally being printed, it is created by the Federal Reserve System. The money being used for the economy bail out is being created. Not... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-from-thorium/152171?rsstype=tag&tag=coal Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:10:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/watthead/152434?rsstype=tag&tag=coal An interesting look at coal, mountain top removal, and the challenges awaiting President-elect Barack Obama from our friends across the pond at the BBC:... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/watthead/152434?rsstype=tag&tag=coal Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:31:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/watthead/152435?rsstype=tag&tag=coal From our friends at Appalachian Voices:The House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming held an important hearing yesterday on Bush's 11th hour rule-making (see my previous post here). As most of our readers will know, one of thos... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/watthead/152435?rsstype=tag&tag=coal Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:14:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/ecoshock/152292?rsstype=tag&tag=coal 1.Testimonyto Select Committee on Energy Independence & Global Warming Dec 9.On auto bail-out & real future of green transpo. Clips from Chairman Ed Markey, Member Jay Inslee, plus testimony from Joan Claybrook of the watchdog group Public Citizen (... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/ecoshock/152292?rsstype=tag&tag=coal Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:51:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/watthead/152441?rsstype=tag&tag=coal When you peddle a product that blows the tops off of whole mountains, is the leading contributor to global warming and toxic air pollution, and is facing an increasingly effective grassroots and legal assault, what are you to do? Well, apparently wh... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/watthead/152441?rsstype=tag&tag=coal Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:06:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-capital/151921?rsstype=tag&tag=coal Banks got first dibs on government largess during the bailout frenzy because the fiancial sector is makes the rest of the economy click. So will banks make the environmental progress click as well?A pair of big banksHSBC and Bank of Americahave added... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-capital/151921?rsstype=tag&tag=coal Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:48:16 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/151847?rsstype=tag&tag=coal Nope, it's not biochar production you are witnessing but Polish charcoal making! Photo ecksunderscore @ flickr.UN climate talks are bogged down in Poznan, Poland, partly by Polish insistence that a new EU climate deal give them concessions to allow t... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/151847?rsstype=tag&tag=coal Sun, 07 Dec 2008 07:50:16 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-energy-news/153425?rsstype=tag&tag=coal Bank of America will phase out financing for companies that practice mountaintop removal coal mining, a destructive and controversial method of coal extraction, according to a statement from the banking giant. The policy comes the day after the Envir... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-energy-news/153425?rsstype=tag&tag=coal Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:30:39 -0500