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A husband and wife team of professors has clean coal supporters in a snit over a recent report suggesting that geologic storage of CO2 – an essential component of the carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology upon which “clean coal” rests – will never be viable at the scale required to make any difference. Not even close, the study asserts.
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A picture of clean coal: The Welzow Sud open pit mine in Brandenburg Germany
As the tragedy at the Upper Big Branch Mine unfolds in West Virginia, our hope is that those left alive inside the mine will soon reach the safety of the surface and the comfort of their friends and family. Coal is a way of life for many in this region, but the tragedy helps focus the cost in lives the pursuit of coal places on miners and all those who come in contact with it.
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By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
(reposted with Permission)
Nuclear power, biofuels, clean coal: These are the Obama administration’s answers to climate change. The 2011 budget, released this week, promised new loans for the construction of nuclear power plants, and on Wednesday the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), White House, and other departments detailed steps to encourage ethanol and clean coal production.
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The number of forged letters sent from Bonner & Associates to members of Congress grows to 12. Many call for an investigation into the extent of the fraud and the connection between the coal industry and Bonner & Associates.
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A followup to our first post on the Carbon Capture and Storage project at Schwarze Pumpe Germany, focusing on the challenges of long term carbon sequestration and storage.
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EarthTalk for Monday, June 29: Is there really such a thing as “clean coal?”
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Clean coal pleads ignorance.
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Produced for the Reality campaign, the academy award winning film makers Joel and Ethan Coen (O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Raising Arizona, Miller’s Crossing, No Country for Old Men, Fargo, Burn After Reading, to name a few) call out the coal industry on their claims that coal is clean.
Continue Reading Clean Coal Fresh – The Coen Brothers Bring a Dose of Reality on Clean Coal
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