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us/Coal Company Tells Workers Not to Vacation in Tennessee
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In the latest sally in the war between pro-coal-at-any-cost and anti-mountaintop mining (MTR) advocates, Arch Coal subsidiary Coal-Mac, Inc., of Holden, West Virginia, has “recommended” that its 30...
us/Lucas Says Mountaintop Removal Is An Appalachian Community Service
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I’m digging deep, and maybe even stepping on a few toes, but a Guardian report via ThinkProgress (or is it vice versa?) cites coal industry spokesman Joe Lucas as saying that mountaintop removal in...
us/Allen Doing Coal’s Dirty Work
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In 2006, at a campaign rally in Virginia, when former Republican Senator George Felix Allen was running against James Webb, Allen got called out by none other than the Washington Post for repeatedl...
us/Ingraham vs. Gore; Half the Truth Is the Same as a Lie
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During the May 1 edition of The O’Reilly Factor, talk-radio guest host Laura Ingraham used a well-known Republican tactic to smear Al Gore, former Vice President, climate activist and Nobel Peace P...
us/Glacial Melting Redraws Italian-Swiss Border, Hints at Future Water Wars
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Once the shape of nations was guided by war, as losers ceded land to winners. That is no longer true, and today Italy and Switzerland are negotiating a new border in the Alps to accommodate the wor...
us/Wellinghoff, Adams, Obama; Is Hope Dangerous?
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Just in time for ABC’s quote from environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. calling President Barack Obama an indentured servant of the coal industry (and Kennedy’s later retraction), comes the pronou...
us/Global Warming Deniers Down Under Get Plimer Promotion
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In the U.S., we have our own little group of global warming deniers. They include George Will, Rush Limbaugh, Robert Samuelson, Representative Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), and the aptly named Marc Mor...
us/Inhofe’s Take on EPA CO2 Ruling Typical Denialism
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It’s no surprise that Sen. James Inhofe’s (R-OK) take on the recent EPA decision (that carbon dioxide is a danger to public health and must be regulated) is negative. Inhofe, ranking minority mem...
us/Congress and Renewables, Going Whichever Way the Wind Blows
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A recent Forbes’ article on Vestas Wind’s CEO, Ditlev Engel, and his determination to make wind energy succeed in America, brings to mind the real problem behind renewable energy in the U.S; Congre...
us/Obama’s Cap and Trade Costs vs. GOP’s Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics
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The quote (lies, damned lies and statistics) is from 1840’s British statesman Benjamin Disraeli, but the political scene remains unchanged 170 years later. The Republicans would have you believe th...
us/Oil Companies Sabotaging America’s “Green” Revolution
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If we act now to implement President Barack Obama’s energy plan – which proposes investment in clean energy (and some badly needed jobs to boot) – we can avert a future in which the nation’s energy...

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