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Household Trash is Managed Better Than The TVA's Coal Ash

Frances Beinecke | Posted 01.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, EPA Rules, Epa, Clean Coal, Coal Industry, Big Coal, Coal Ash, Drinking Water, Tva, TVA Disaster, TVA Kingston, Toxins, Coal Ash Pollution, Contaminated Groundwater, Contaminated Drinking Water, Green News

While your municipal government does a good job of handling your trash, the Environmental Protection Agency is supposed to protect Americans from hazardous waste. Coal ash fits the bill.

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The True Face of Mean Coal

David Sassoon | Posted 01.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Mean Coal, Global Warming, Tennessee Coal Ash, Clean Coal, TVA Spill, Big Coal, The New York Times, New York Times, TVA Disaster, Coal, Coal Mining, TVA Coal, Tva, Green News

There are 1300 hundred dumps across the country similar to the one in Tennessee. It's become painfully clear yet again that there's no such thing as clean coal, just Mean Coal.

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Tom Kilgore, TVA CEO, Talked To Angry Victims Yesterday, Senate Today

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 01.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Coal Sludge, Clean Coal, Tom Kilgore, Tennessee, Tennessee Coal Ash, Tennessee Coal Spill, Tva Ceo, Fly Ash, Roane County, Coal, Tom Kilgore Testimony, Green News

Tom Kilgore, CEO of the Tennessee Valley Authority, testified today before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee at 10 a.m. EST today. V...

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Tennesseeans Bring Jar Of Sludge To Sen. Boxer Ahead Of Hearing

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 01.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Barbara Boxer, Coal Sludge, Clean Coal, Tennessee Coal Spill, Tennessee Coal Ash, Fly Ash, Tennessee, Roane County, Coal, Green News

The Knoxville News-Sentinel reports that Tennessee residents met with Sen. Barbara Boxer and others in Washington yesterday to talk about the effects ...

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Tennessee Coal Sludge Disaster: Think This Could Not Happen to You? Think Again.

Gillian Caldwell | Posted 01.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Clean Coal, Tennessee Coal Ash, Tennessee Coal Spill, Tennessee, Environment, 1sky, Clean Coal Myth, Tennessee Valley Authority, Coal Sludge Spill, Green News

The Tennessee coal ash spill was a man-made disaster that is directly tied to our reliance on fossil fuels.

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Who Got Coal in Their Stockings?

Carl Pope | Posted 01.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, TVA Spill, TVA Disaster, Dynegy, Coal, Environmental Protection Agency, Clean Coal, Ls Power, Green News

The massive... spill of coal ash at the Kingston Power plant in Tennessee devastated homes, covered hundreds of acres, and threatens rivers, wildlife, and drinking-water sources.

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Tennessee Sludge Spill Community's Future Clouded (SLIDESHOW)

AP | BETH RUCKER | Posted 01.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Clean Coal, Tennesee Coal Spill, Coal Industry, Water, Tennessee Coal Ash, Environment, Pollution, Coal, Green News

HARRIMAN, Tenn. -- Tom Grizzard wonders what the future holds for a spot that once seemed the perfect place to live. His pastoral enclave boasted vist...

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Why TVA Coal Investigation Matters: Interview with Former MSHA Investigator

Jeff Biggers | Posted 12.30.2008 | Green

Read More: Epa, Dirty Coal, Appalachia, Clean Coal, Mining, Big Coal, Clean Water, Tennessee, Kentucky, Clean Energy, Department of Energy, Coal Mining, Barack Obama, TVA Coal, Environmental Protection, Tony Oppegard, Green News

When wildfires consume beautiful homes in California, it headlines the evening news. But when thousands of people go without water for weeks in Appalachia, it's not "newsworthy."

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Obama's NSA Advisor Likes: Clean Coal, Nuclear, Long Walks On Beach (With Drilling Apparatus)

Grist | Posted 12.30.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Green Security, Clean Coal, National Security, NSA Advisor, Nuclear, James L. Jones, Drill Baby Drill, Green News

For a lot of the folks who voted for Barack Obama, promoting "national security" means weaning ourselves from dirty fuel sources. For the man Obama...

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... And Now For Some Good News From TVA

Dave Cooper | Posted 12.29.2008 | Green

Read More: Clean Coal, Sludge, Environment, Coal Ash, Tennessee, Tva, Slurry, Kingston, Harriman, Green News

According to the Tennessee Valley Authority, the 5-story tall mountain of coal waste didn't collapse into the river like a tsunami of sludge -- no, it was "displaced."

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Tennesseans With Sludge-Destroyed Property: "Clean Coal Is A Myth" (VIDEO)

AP | KRISTIN M. HALL | Posted 12.29.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Tennessee Coal Sludge, Clean Coal, Tennessee Coal Ash, Environment, Pollution, Coal, Video, Sludge Pollution Tennessee, Sludge Video, Green News

KINGSTON, Tenn. -- The CEO and president of the nation's largest public utility vowed to clean up a community encased in sludge after a major coal ash...

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10 Predictions for 2009 That are Really Wishes

Francine Hardaway | Posted 12.26.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Carbon Tax, Clean Coal, Corporate Sustainability, Alternative Energy, Climate Change, Hybrid Cars, Green News

I'm not so much predicting what will happen in the recycling world as defining what I think might happen, and indeed, HOPE might happen.

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Tennessee Coal Ash Brought Tidings Of Lead, Selenium, Arsenic

New York Times | SHAILA DEWAN | Posted 12.26.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Coal Ash, Coal Ash Contents, Clean Coal, Coal, Tennessee Coal Ash, Green News

Federal studies have long shown coal ash to contain significant quantities of heavy metals like arsenic, lead and selenium, which can cause cancer and...

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A Lump of Coal in America's Stocking

Lisa Derrick | Posted 12.25.2008 | Home

Read More: TVA Disaster, Tennesse Coal Spill, Environment, Clean Coal, Coal, Home News

The Environmental Protection agency has dispatched one investigator to investigate the nation's largest spill of coal ash. The disaster, spread over 2...

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How Obama Can Improve the World

Jason Pielemeier | Posted 12.24.2008 | World

Read More: South Africa, Human Rights, Barack Obama, Yale, Economic Crisis, Clean Coal, Afghanistan, Renewable Energy, Democracy, Green Energy, Energy Policy, Financial Crisis, Democracy Promotion, Global Warming, World News

Yale World Fellows advise Barack Obama on his first term, with tips on how he can transform the energy economy, advice on Afghanistan, and suggestions for how he can help create a global democracy.

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Ash Christmas: Yesterday's TVA Coal Disaster is Toxic Wake Up Call to Nation

Jeff Biggers | Posted 12.23.2008 | Green

Read More: Epa, Carol Browner, Dirty Coal, Clean Coal, Big Coal, Environment, Stephen Chu, Coal Ash, Cancer, TVA Disaster, Barack Obama, Green News

Coal ash contains mercury, lead, and arsenic. Nearly 800 Olympic-size swimming pools of that toxic mix are flowing into the waterways of Tennessee right now.

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Massive Coal Ash Spill in Tennessee puts the lie to Clean Coal

Kevin Grandia | Posted 12.23.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Tennessee Coal Disaster, Clean Coal, Tennessee Coal Flood, Coal Industry, Toxic Coal Ash, Green News

When it comes to PR spindoctoring there is always one surefire cure - reality. If you were fooled by the multimillion dollar "clean coal" PR marketing...

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Clean Coal the Big Joke

Kevin Grandia | Posted 12.22.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Funny, Sustainability, Coal News, Clean Coal, Coal, Green News

A little Christmas humor from online personality Rob Cottingham at Social Signal who knows all too well that clean coal is a joke.

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Dear Carol Browner: Dirty Coal Will Turn Green Recovery Gray

Jeff Biggers | Posted 12.19.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Dirty Coal, Carol Browner, Coal, Mountaintop Removal, Stephen Chu, Big Coal, Climate Change, Barack Obama, Climate Destabilization, Clean Coal, Green Recovery, Futuregen, Green News

The incoming Secretary of Energy will have the choice of committing billions of dollars to relaunch the shipwrecked FutureGen coal-fired plant, or allocating that amount of funding to launch a sustainable wind or solar clean jobs project in the same Illinois area.

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5 Dangerous Green Myths

Treehugger | Matthew McDermott | Posted 12.17.2008 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Population, Vegetarian, Cfl, Birds, China, Pollution, Vegetarianism, Coal, Soy, Eating Matters, Extinction, Climate Change, Genetically Modified Food, Deforestation, Global Warming, Energy, Population Growth, Clean Coal, Corn, Green Living, Genetically Modified Crops, Food Matters, Local Food, Population Control, Overpopulation, Mining, Genetically Modified, Environment, Food, Wind Turbines, Green News

Can you tell the difference between eco fact and eco fiction? With the green movement growing in momentum, we frequently come across any number of st...

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Joe the Deacon and the Church of Clean Coal Carolers: How to Faith-wash Green-washing

Justin Callaway | Posted 12.14.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Joe Lucas, Green-Wash, Accce, Lame Duck Express, Clean Coal, Advertising, Greenwashing, Joe the Deacon, Greenwashies, Church of Clean Coal, Coal Carolers, Green-Washing, Pr, America's Power, Faith-Wash, Green News

Forget the ghost-written pontifications of Joe-the-Plumber, meet Joe the Deacon. That's Joe Lucas, the VP of Communications at the ACCCE, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Energy.

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"Clean Coal Carolers" Killed By Rachel Maddow, Good Taste (VIDEO)

Think Progress/HuffPost | Posted 12.12.2008 | Green

Read More: Video, Clean Coal, Christmas, Rachel Maddow, Environment, Are You Serious, Green News

Via ThinkProgress Wednesday, ThinkProgress reported on a holiday campaign by the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), a coal indus...

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Obama's Global Challenge

Marco Trbovich | Posted 12.11.2008 | Green

America's energy future is a goods news, bad news joke. The good news is that America has enough domestic resources to meet its energy needs. The bad news is, the resource is coal.

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Coal's Sacriligeous Caroling

A. Siegel | Posted 12.10.2008 | Green

Read More: Accce, Truthiness, Clean Coal, Satire, Climate Change, Emissions, Pollution, Coal, Global Warming, Astroturfing, Green News

I was shocked at the latest parody of a set of Christmas Carols courtesy of the coal industry's mouthpiece, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity: the "Clean Coal Carolers" with a set of lyrics that take their truthiness and deception to a whole new level of depravity.

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Clean Coal Reality Ads (VIDEO)

Adweek | Posted 12.10.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Reality Coalition, Crispin Porter Bogusky, Clean Coal, Mining, Climate Change, Environment, Coal, Global Warming, Green News

The American public heard a lot about "clean coal" during the election this year, but a new campaign from the Reality Coalition argues it simply doesn...

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