Category: Fossil Fuels

True to form, frequent commenter MarcoPolo stands up for the coal industry in response to my recent post “What’s Happening in the U.S. Coal Industry Is Most Certainly Not Helping the Miners”, in which he begins: I’m astounded by your ill-informed and deliberately …

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The Keystone Pipeline ruins the planet.  But it has two modes: When it works as advertised, this destruction takes place slowly, over a period of decades; when it fails, the process is greatly accelerated. The Facebook post to the left …

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I go to a fair number of conferences on renewable energy, and sustainability more generally.  A few times a year, I check out events calendars, decided where I’m going and when, and then hit up the event producers for press …

2GreenEnergy Doesn’t Attend Conferences Promoting Coal Read More »

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Americans woke up this morning to learn that Republican senator from Alaska Lisa Murkowski, introduced legislation last night that would open a portion of a pristine wildlife refuge in her state to oil and gas development. 

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From Jon LeSage’s Green Auto Digest: Oil giant paying for air pollution improvements: 

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The debate between which fuel, gas or diesel, is “better” has been a longstanding one, especially since the auto industry has implemented several improvements in greenhouse gas emissions and fuel economy. But not everyone sees what is best in the …

From Guest Blogger Eileen O’Shanassy: Gas and Diesel–A Tale of Two Fuels Read More »

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With closing of two more coal plants in Texas, the U.S. has crossed the half-way threshold (262 of the original 543 plants closed, 261 remaining open). As is always the case, there were multiple “causes of death” in the two …

Regarding the Shuttering of Coal-Fired power Plants, We’re Playing the Back Nine Read More »

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Frequent commenter MarcoPolo writes: How much difference a mere nine months can make! One of President Obama’s few real accomplishments was his irrational hatred of the US coal industry. In a mere eight years, President Obama contributed to massive job …

Was Obama Terrified of Coal? Read More »

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Commenting on the wholesale environmental deregulation that the Trump administration has so successfully hurried along, an op-ed contributor to the Wall Street Journal notes, “Apparently, coal can be marketable, if regulators let it be.” Wow, that’s astute.

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Report from an Intergovernmental panel on climate change has shown that climate system of the earth is getting warmer and warmer due to human contributions. As the level carbon dioxide increases, more heat is generated in the surface thus raising …

From Guest Blogger Brooke Chaplan: Four Ways the Manufacturing Industry Can Cut Down on Carbon Emissions Read More »

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