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Toxic Mercury: It’s What’s for Dinner
Mercury and other dangerous air pollutants have long been connected to extreme health problems such as brain damage, learning disabilities, birth defects, heart disease, cancer and even premature death. As many as 1 in 6 American women of childbearing age… Read more >
Blackened Pork: Liquid Coal Subsidies Sneak into Senate Tax Bill
Is regular coal not dirty enough for you? Meet liquid coal fuel! Destructive to mine, water-intensive to manufacture, devastating to our climate at every step of the way – liquid coal is one of the world’s dirtiest fuels. Liquid coal… Read more >
Deja Ruse: Coal Front Groups Roll Out Astroturf on Capitol Hill
Coal miners are heading to Capitol Hill for a pro-mountaintop removal rally! Totally spontaneously! Just up & went! At least, that’s what you’d think reading the Associated Press preview of the rally. It only mentions Big Coal front groups like… Read more >
Big Coal on Capitol Hill: Liveblogging Today’s House Hearing
The National Wildlife Federation is liveblogging today’s House Select Committee on Energy Independence & Global Warming hearing, The Role of Coal in a New Energy Age. Read the liveblog here! Read more >
Students Refusing Coal-Funded and Coal-Powered Buildings
At the University of Kentucky, students are fighting back against Alliance Coal's sponsorship of a new dorm for basketball players. MSNBC reports that the $7 million dorm will be called the "Wildcat Coal Lodge," though it will be powered to… Read more >
New Report Out – Coal’s Assault on Human Health
Listen to television ads that promote “clean coal” a thousand times over and you will soon begin to believe that clean coal actually exists. At least that’s the aim of the propaganda campaign paid for by coal and power companies… Read more >
Hearing Raises New Questions About Coal Lobby Group
The House Select Committee for Eneregy Independence & Global Warming held a hearing this morning on the coal lobby letter fraud. A firm called Bonner & Associates sent phony letters to three members of Congress opposing the American Clean Energy… Read more >
Duke Energy Quits American Coalition for Clean Coal Energy
Duke Energy quit the American Coalition for Clean Coal Energy over differences with other member companies who do not support energy and climate legislation. Duke Energy is a founding member of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership. The Partnership states “…the… Read more >
Big Coal Dumps Letter Fraud Lobbyists
As the National Journal reports, Big Coal is dropping its dirty lobbying firm: The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity announced Thursday that it was severing ties with Bonner & Associates, the grassroots lobbying firm founded by Jack Bonner, whose… Read more >
