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National Coal

The war on coal

What’s your stance on coal?In the 1950s newspapers were brimming with stories on “Black Lung” or Coalworker's pneumoconiosis,...
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EPA conducts human experiments, puts lives at risk, and hides results.

Would you believe me if I told you the EPA exposed human test subjects to particulates that the EPA as classified as fatal upon exposure, and then...
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EPA moves to cut power plant carbon emissions

  • EPA
  • March 28, 2012
Today, the EPA moved to place strict emission standards on new electricity power plants. These restrictions will, in effect, halt the development...
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Mercury travels far to get into food chain

For the first time researchers have documented the change in composition that elemental mercury released in some forms of pollution (coal burning)...
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Obama taps into oil reserves but thwarts U.S. energy independence

  • Obama taps into U.S. strategic oil reserve
  • June 23, 2011
In a news release this morning it is reported that Barack Obama has released 30 million barrels of oil from America's strategic oil reserve,...
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Life cycle analysis making its way through fossil fuel industry

Life cycle analysis was birthed from a concept called cradle-to-cradle [see video to the left]; it is the process whereby the environmental impact...
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Patterns in crises plague coal, oil, gas, nuclear industries

Yet another crisis in the world that can be traced back to established regulations being overlooked due to an excessively cozy relationship between...
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Then and Now: Coal Railroading in 1974

Coal has been an importantcommodity on US Railroadssince the beginning. As regulations have changed regarding "greenhouse" gases,...
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Earth's resource wars [2]

[continued from Part 1] [cue music] In the beginning, oil companies tried unsuccessfully to greenwash their image, Darth Cheney had secret energy...
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Earth's resource wars [1]

...in a galaxy not so far, far away. In fact, right here on Earth. [cue music] Resistance is building against the Evil Empire intent upon...
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