Tag Archives: clean coal
Clean Up Big Coal
Sunflower management chose and continues to choose the low road, corrupting the licensing and now the extension processes Continue reading
Clean Coal Research is a Waste of Money
By Stephen Luntz for ABC Environment Despite the millions of dollars being directed at carbon capture and storage technology, it will never deliver on its promise. The 2011 budget was not a favourable one for carbon capture and storage (CCS). Over … Continue reading
“The Cleanest Coal Plant in the Country?” Not.
In fact, there are currently hundreds of coal plants in the country that are already emitting fewer harmful pollutants than the recent KDHE permit allows the proposed Holcomb 2 coal-fired unit to spew. Given the political tactics and misinformation used to advance this project, one wonders how many other claims in support of this coal plant are simply not true. Continue reading
“EPA-Bashing” Won’t Work Rockefeller Warns Industry
Rockefeller warns the coal industry that his bid to delay U.S. EPA emissions limits won’t work if cleaner-burning coal does not move closer to reality. Continue reading
Natural Gas May Undercut Coal
Typically, coal is at least half the cost of the natural gas. But now the price of coal is rising faster than other fuels, largely because of demand from China that has an inexhaustible need for cheap electricity to grow its economy. Meanwhile, newfound shale gas supplies have given the natural gas industry a second wind – one that many analysts are touting as the nation’s bridge fuel until green energy takes root. Continue reading
How I Pissed Off a Room Full of Environmentalists
In 2007, the National Academy of Sciences released a report indicating the United States probably only has enough coal to meet our needs for about 100 years. So why, when we know that coal’s reign cannot possibly last beyond this century, would we spend billions of dollars to make it “cleaner”? Continue reading
“Dirty Business” Takes to the Road in Kansas
This “guest blog” is from late-August, but GPACE is co-sponsoring an encore screening of Dirty Business: ‘Clean Coal’ and the Battle for Our Energy Future in Lawrence, Kansas on Sunday, October 10th at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries (ECM) on the campus of the University of Kansas, 1204 Oread Avenue, beginning at 7:00 PM. Continue reading
Illinois Regulators: Clean Coal Plant to Cost Plenty
Illinois Commerce Commission tells state lawmakers that the Taylorville “clean coal” Energy Center will be roughly twice the cost of nuclear or wind energy production. Continue reading
Clean Coal Dream a Costly Nightmare
Sold on a promise of cheap, clean electricity, dozens of communities in Illinois and eight other Midwest states instead are facing more expensive utility bills after bankrolling a new coal-fired power plant that will be one of the nation’s largest sources of climate-change pollution. Continue reading
Electric Utility Industry Can Lead the Way on Energy and Climate Legislation
It’s time for all of us — politicians, business leaders and environmentalists — to put wishful thinking aside, establish realistic goals and develop a consensus for legislation that can be passed this year. If that means capping emissions from the utility sector first — so be it. There is growing consensus in the electric utility industry to act now, so let’s move forward Continue reading
