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Solving climate change through oil, nukes and coal?

7 hours ago ago from Citizen Energy

Christmas has come early for the Trio of Polluters (oil, coal and nukes): The tripartisan committee of Senators Joe Lieberman (I-CT), John Kerry (D-MA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) today released their for legislation that proposes so many giveaways to climate culprits that I'm having a hard time finding where this legislative actually addresses climate change. For starters, the Nuclear Energy Institute gets its money's worth as the ...

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Are We That Bad?

10 hours ago ago from Ranting Owl

Come on! Guyana's President Bharrat Jagdeo finds himself at a crossroads. To the front sits the Atlantic Ocean, which could overwhelm his capital if oceans rise as predicted by global warming scientists. To his back sit some of the last virgin rainforests of South America, a carbon sink that helps to mitigate the impact of the carbon being pumped into the atmosphere. But as he heads off to the Copenhagen conference to defend his land, a ...

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How Many Pollutants Come From Coal?

8 hours ago ago from Donkey Path

There's been so much talk about clean coal in the last year or two that I can only shake my head. There's no such thing, not even close. One could argue that there's such a thing as slightly cleaner coal but that's it. I find it curious that Republicans use clean coal jargon quite often, but a website for the coal industry doesn't seem to use the phrase as much. What the World Coal Institute talks about is carbon capture and storage. ...

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Red River clean coal project awarded $245m in DOE funding

14 hours ago ago from NewNet - New Energy World Network: the latest news and analysis on alternative, sustainable and renewable energy for the global clean energy investor community

10th December 2009 ADA Carbon Solutions' wholly-owned subsidiary Red River Environmental Products has been offered a loan guarantee by US Department of Energy (DOE) under the Energy Policy Act of 2005. ADA Carbon Solutions is a joint venture backed by NASDAQ-listed clean coal developer ADA-ES and clean technology-focused private equity firm Energy Capital Partners. The company said that the proceeds from the $245m loan will be used ...

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The Benefits of Protecting our Forests

6 hours ago ago from COP-15

Today at the side event hosted by the NGO SustainUS I was able to learn a lot of interesting facts about forest protection. Deforestation is a huge reason why we have so many carbon emissions in our atmosphere. Trees are a natural carbon dioxide regulator for the Earth, meaning they store the carbon dioxide that enters the atmosphere; therefore, there are less harmful emission increases.  When trees capture carbon dioxide they store the CO2 ...

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Bruce Nilles: The Time for Coal Ash Regulation is Now

7 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

How many people have to be sickened or killed before we get strong coal ash regulations in the U.S.? I ask this during a week very full of news on coal ash - the by-product of burning coal for power. Our latest and biggest news is our notice today putting New Mexico's San Juan Coal Company on notice for failing to properly dispose of millions of tons of toxic coal ash and scrubber sludge each year. "For years the San Juan Coal Company and ...

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