At least 16 coal-fired power plant proposals nationwide have been scrapped in recent months and more than three dozen have been delayed as utilities face increasing pressure due to concerns over global warming and rising construction costs.
One of the world's top scientists on global warming called for the United States to stop building coal-fired power plants and eventually bulldoze older generators that don't capture and bury greenhouse gases.
Portable gizmos such as phones, handheld computers and mp3 players can easily get scuffed, dirty and sticky.
In the time it takes to microwave a frozen dinner, another 120 tons of coal is dumped from a railroad car at the Laramie River Station. It's a scene that can occur 200 times a day.
In Illinois we need to protest coal and nuclear too. Maybe this will help us start.
Energy experts convened by the world's scientific academies Monday urged nations to shift swiftly away from coal and other fuels that are the main source of climate-warming greenhouse gases and to provide new energy options for the two billion people who still mostly cook in the …
PARIS (AFP) - Energy poses one of the greatest threats facing humanity this century, the world's leading academies of science warned Monday, highlighting the peril of oil wars and climate change driven by addiction to fossil fuels.
On Thursday, the Secretary of the Kansas Dept. of Health and Environment (KDHE), Rod Bremby, turned down permits for the building of two new coal-fired power plants in southwest Kansas.
An increasingly vocal and potent anti-coal movement in the West includes ranchers, farmers and religious groups.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasts that $20 trillion in new investment is required to meet world energy needs by 2030.
Whether we avert catastrophe with climate change may actually be decided by Citibank and Bank of America, who help bankroll some of the dirtiest energy projects.
When we thought we had reached a peak of mediocrity and disgraceful deceitfulness with the U.S. and Canadian emissions intensity scam; we must now observe that things can get worse.
Pat Michaels, Senior Fellow of the libertarian The Cato Institute, answers several questions from Energy Policy TV on his perspective on dealing with climate change.
BROOKLIN, Canada, Oct 2 (IPS) - As global warming melts the Arctic, the United States's biggest banks are investing billions of dollars in as many as 150 new coal-fired power plants around the country.
QUEENSLAND coal miners are unwittingly funding a climate-change campaign managed by a close friend and former adviser to Greens leader Bob Brown.
Gloria Ogenyi of the energy firm Conectiv, says increasing fuel prices and increased energy demand are among key factors driving higher electricity rates in deregulated states.
Global warming is easily the most serious problem we as a nation face today; if left unchecked, we could be facing a temperature change of 4 degrees Celsius in a mere century, which is a rate that is nearly unprecedented in earth's history.
That's world coal consumption in 2004. Or more precisely ; 6,098,000,000 tons of coal 12,196,000,000,000 lbs. of coal EIA
Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo of New York has opened an investigation of five large energy companies, questioning whether their plans to build coal-fired power plants pose undisclosed financial risks that their investors should know about.
Mazria isn't a climatologist. He's not even a scientist. He's an architect who gave up running his company in January to devote his time to a nonprofit group he founded several years ago.
The Oz Labor Opposition lead by Religious Right Rudd (R3) WILL sign Kyoto but will POLLUTE GROSSLY - it suffers from acutely timid "me too-ism" before a greedy Aussie electorate brainwashed by Bush-ite media.
Have a business that always loses money, something inefficient and polluting, that the free market would never give it a future?
LONDON (Reuters) - The health of about 2 billion of the world's poor is being damaged because they lack access to clean energy, like electricity, and face exposure to smoke from open fires, scientists said on Thursday.
The hearing examines the status of coal-to-liquid(CTL) technologies and what additional research, development anddemonstration programs should be undertaken at the Department of Energy or other agencies to better understand the benefits and barriers to converting coal into transp …
Alright expert analysts.... here's your chance... which way is this baby going to go???? Will it reach a dollar/share? Appears to be a lot of interest with an explosion in volume and price jump. Is the gold bull sharpening it's horns????
Has Silverado finally found the "huge bonanza?" (As quoted from another SLGLF comment on another site stating such must occur to even get to the $1/share mark).
Has Silverado finally found the "huge bonanza?" (As quoted from another SLGLF comment on another site stating such must occur to even get to the $1/share mark).
Soot, largely from the vast Asian Brown Cloud, has far-reaching effects which have actually been *WARMING* the planet, not cooling it as was previously thought.