Big Subsidies for Big Coal
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Think gasoline is expensive? Check out this coal-derived alternative.
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Comment is free: George Monbiot: Britain's future prosperity has been hardwired to rising use of transport fuels, without a thought for the supply drying up.
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ROHNE, Germany -- Underneath the marshy ground here is a huge deposit of cheap brown coal -- manna for a nearby power plant that is among the biggest emitters of global warming gases in Europe. The presence of the fuel may mean that this village and its 680 residents have to go, moved out by the...
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A group backed by the coal industry and its utility allies is waging a $35 million campaign in primary and caucus states to rally public support for coal-fired electricity and to fuel opposition to legislation that Congress is crafting to slow climate change.
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The government's biggest energy user is considering a cheaper, cleaner fuel to fire its jet engines.
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Leave it to cowboy capitalism and Texas to come up with a weird monster energy deal involving a dozen new coal plants and a green $44 billion buyout that would scuttle some of the plants. In Epicenter.
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The U.S. Senate on Tuesday rejected  contentious incentives to convert coal into liquid transport  fuels, as tax-writers proposed giving $32.1 billion in new  incentives to produce cleaner energy, and sticking Big Oil with  most of the bill in the form of new taxes.
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By Curtis Morgan, The Miami Herald Feb. 11--Coal, the source of half of the nation's power, has a dirty reputation with environmentalists. But a plant that Tampa Electric Co.
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Business & money: Â· Call to catch up with big energy crop producersÂ· Concerns over food supply are 'absolute nonsense'
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In West Virginia mine country, television ads say President Bush has "broken his promise to invest in coal." In Wisconsin, voters see spots saying the factory state "has lost 84,000 manufacturing jobs" under the Republican. And Florida's large retiree population gets a commercial that claims Bush's policies have "banned Americans from buying low-cost drugs from Canada."
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The end of a little-known federal subsidy that funneled millions of dollars to rural counties to compensate them for restrictions on logging is forcing communities in the West to close libraries, reduce police patrols and put off road repairs.
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Drivers spend hours, sometimes days, waiting in traffic, a small example of the epic scale, and epic inefficiency, of ChinaÂs coal economy.
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Large farm operations are reaping too big a share of government subsidies, new Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said Thursday, defending President Bush's desire to curb the payments by billions of dollars over the next decade.
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DENVER - A plan by Colorado&#39;s largest utility to build a $1.3 billion coal-fired power plant in Pueblo is facing strong opposition from people who say both environmental and financial concerns make the facility a bad idea.
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A huge tax bill that Congress passed last week contained a little-noticed gift for select corporations -- tens of millions of dollars in breaks on import tariffs.
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The Penn Virginia limited partnership offers a dividend-based play on coal production.