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The Other Coal Deaths

Posted in Global Warming, tagged accident, Coal, coal miner, cost, death, disaster, Don Blankenship, Global Warming, mine, Mining, other coal deaths, ted nace, west virginia on April 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

A guest column by Ted Nace of CoalSwarm: Every day in the United States, on average, 65 people die due to particulates from coal plants. On average, each of these deaths represents 14 years of lost life. These 65 deaths happen day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year. They come [...]

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Direct Action Against MTR at EPA

Posted in Global Warming, tagged action, Coal, EPA, Global Warming, Lisa Jackson, Mining, mountain top removal, mountaintop, mtr, obama, protest, RAN on March 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Activists are risking arrest by demonstrating outside EPA national headquarters in make-shift tripod stands. They say they won’t go away until EPA administrator Lisa Jackson promises to make a fly-over of the Appalachian Mountain Top Removal coal mines to see first hand the destruction it is causing. Despite the Obama administration making claims they would [...]

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Help Stop Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

Posted in Global Warming, tagged Bill, call, clean water protection act, climate change, Coal, coal mining, Congress, Global Warming, h.r. 1310, house of representatives, i love mountains, Mining, mountain top, mountaintop, mtr, protest, removal, representative on March 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Please join us in supporting ILoveMountains.org in their ongoing campaign to bring a halt to Mountaintop Removal (MTR) Coal Mining. There is a bill in front of the House of Representatives that would do a great deal to help stop this incredibly destructive operation. As you probably know, MTR is one of the most ecologically [...]

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A Look at Uranium Mining

Posted in Energy, Nuclear, Toxics, tagged Areva, cancer, Energy, Heavy Metals, Leaching, Mines, Mining, Navajo, Nuclear, Power, Public Eye Award, Radiation, Radon, Southwest, Uranium on July 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Proponents of nuclear power do a lot to paint it as an environmentally friendly, cheap fuel source. It is not, and we at Public Citizen work hard to dispel these kinds of myths. We have said a lot about how expensive a major nuclear undertaking can be (San Antonio is on verge of dumping several [...]

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A Look at Coal Mining

Posted in Global Warming, tagged Carbon Dioxide, Coal, coal mines, Kentucky, Leaching, Mines, Mining, Moutain Top Removal, Open Pit Mining, Powder Creek, Strip Mining, Tar Sands, Wyoming on May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

While we at Public Citizen Texas are fighting the building of new coal power plants in Texas and the surrounding states, the focus has largely been on the CO2, sulfur and other pollutants emitted into the air by the burning of coal, not to mention its inefficiency as a fuel source. We often over look [...]

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