Those who eagerly await the Apocalypse will like this: the latest roll-back of environmental regulations concerning the consumption of coal. Andrew Wheeler (seated), administrator of the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency is shown here repealing the federal law (The Clean …
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Drop in City’s Emissions Chalked Up to Coal Plant Closures. Wow!
Here’s an article called “Drop in city’s emissions chalked up to coal plant closures.” How totally unexpected. It’s along the lines of “Birth control reduces unwanted pregnancies.”
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Twilight of Coal in America
When people ask me why I haven’t written a book on renewable energy in the last few years, I explain that my thinking on the subject really hasn’t changed very much recently.
There’s Nothing Controversial About Coal-Fired Power Plants
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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Was Obama Terrified of Coal?
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 …
Discussions of Fracking Need To Be Fair
Below is a video that does a good job at explaining how fracking works. It’s all true, but the presentation is imbalanced and unfair, as it doesn’t present how completely screwed we’d be in the absence of fracking, which would …
Burning Coal Is Choking Our Planet and Its People, But Strangely, That’s OK
Here’s something that will put a smile on a few faces, i.e., those investors whose meager integrity and broken moral compass enables them to support coal as an energy source. According to Energy Matters: Nearly all publicly traded US coal …
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Bid Farewell To the Energy Star Program and Its Magnificent Contribution to Energy Efficiency and Conservation
It appears that the Trump administration will not let up on its war against the environment until the very last attempt to protect our natural ecosystems is repealed. On the chopping block this week is Energy Star program, established in …
Uninformed Critics (Often Pro-Nuke People) Attack Renewable Energy with Loud, Though Specious Arguments
I’m often called upon to defend renewable energy against its critics. Here are my words of rebuttal to Alex Cannara, a nuclear advocate who for some reason feels compelled to denigrate renewables at every opportunity. My remarks are in italics …
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The Coal Industry Offers Jobs
A reader notes: The L.A. Times had an editorial today about the obvious need to abandon coal as an energy source, and yet what to do about the coal miners and others whose jobs directly exist because of that industry…..It gets …
