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The Time for Burning Coal Has Passed
It's high time to plan the coal phase-out now and show the people in the region a future beyond the inevitable end of dirty fossil fuels.
With This Decade’s Climate Policy, Expect More Warming Than if Nothing Was Done at All
Since 1986, we have emitted as much carbon dioxide as we emitted in the prior 236 years, yet climate policy has only become approximately 13 percent more stringent.
Coal Miners Are Mad…and Scared and They Have a Right To Be
I saw poverty on that trip in those hidden Appalachian valleys that I'd not seen since the Kennedy-Johnson era and the War on Poverty days.
The Right’s New Strategy on Climate: Criticizing Billionaires’ Spending
A few billionaires and environmental foundations are conspiring to spread propaganda against the use of fossil fuels.
Breaking the Grip of the Fossil Fuel Economy: If It Can Happen in Appalachia, It Can Happen Anywhere
Coal production is gradually leaving Appalachia - having already extracted much of the region's natural wealth.
Federal Appeals Court Upholds EPA Efforts on Mountaintop Removal
Court rejects coal industry's challenge to Obama Administration's effort to rein in mountaintop removal mining.
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What West Virginia Can Learn From Sarah Palin
If that state put a tax on coal and gas extraction - effectively a carbon tax - and then cycled all of the money it took in back to …
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Report: A Carbon Tax That Would Create Jobs, Cut Emissions and Put Money in Your Pocket
Giving taxpayers $250 per month, reducing carbon emissions and boosting the economy. This is what the future could hold if the United States imposed a revenue-neutral carbon tax on …
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Why Do Coal Mining Jobs Matter So Much More Than Jobs Lost to Trade?
While it is good to see the media paying attention to this job loss in the coal industry and its implications for families and communities, this concern is a …
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This Is What Happened When Scholastic Tried To Bring Pro-Coal Propaganda to School
"The United States of Energy" was a colorful series of lessons on the advantages of coal, aimed at 4th-graders, and sponsored by Big Coal. Here's how educators and activists …