What's Happening In The World Of Dirty Energy
Every day, news stories document the degradation perpetrated by the coal industry around the world. To win this fight, we all need to stay as informed as possible. So check back often, and learn about this industry and the havoc it wreaks.
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
The global air pollution control equipment market should grow significantly once utility, oil and gas companies comply with increasingly stringent environmental regulations such as the EPA’s Maximum Achievable Control Technology rules…
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Shares of coal companies fell Tuesday as concerns deepened that global demand will continue to decline after China lowered its economic growth forecast.
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
February 26, 2012 marked the 40th anniversary of the Buffalo Creek disaster, the “most destructive flood in West Virginia history”…
Monday, February 27th, 2012
Millennium Bulk Terminals is proposing to build a $600 million terminal west of Longview to export 44 million tons of coal annually, an amount that would make it one of the largest such facilities in North America.
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
An excerpt from the Dec. 10th, 2009 Congressional hearing of The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee, “Drinking Water and Public Health Impacts of Coal Combustion Waste Disposal”
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
The iLoveMountains.org team has just launched an innovative new web tool to illustrate the overwhelming amount of data that shows the high human cost of coal mining. check it out!
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
Environmental group Greenpeace warns that China is producing toxic coal ash at an alarming rate, destroying surrounding villages and agricultural land
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
Environmentalists and charter fishing captains expect Lake Erie’s fish population to climb with the closing of coal-burning units at a power plant near the mouth of the lake’s biggest tributary.
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Report shows elevated levels near ash basins at all 14 Duke and Progress power plants.
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
Patriot Coal has agreed to a major legal settlement that will require the company to clean up dozens of illegal discharges of toxic selenium at three major mining complexes in Southern West Virginia, according to court records filed Wednesday.