The Madness of King Coal
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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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An increasingly vocal and potent anti-coal movement in the West includes ranchers, farmers and religious groups.
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Mountaintop mining is the controversial practice of excavating coal using explosives to rupture mountaintops. At least 800 square miles of mountains have been leveled in the Appalachians, and 1,200 miles of streams buried by debris. Opponents say the procedure leaves locals vulnerable to floods and sickness aggravated by pollution.
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SALT LAKE CITY - If her invention had been real, she might have made big bucks. Instead, she gets coal in her stocking - and time behind bars.
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Blog: U.S. government asked to do more research on coal
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A key problem is that liquid from coal emits twice as much carbon as gasoline. Still, Washington likes the idea.
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This ETF gives you exposure to coal producers around the world.
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Greenpeace unimpressed Kent's Medway Council has controversially voted in favour of building the UK's first new coal-fired power station for 24 years at Kingsnorth, near Rochester.â¦
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Almost nonstop, gargantuan 145-ton trucks rumble through China's biggest open-pit coal mine, sending up clouds of soot as they dump their loads into mechanized sorters.
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By S.J. Komarnitsky, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Mar. 9--WASILLA -- A proposed permit to allow exploratory coal drilling  around the Matanuska Valley community of Chickaloon prompted a deluge of  responses from concerned residents and others.
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Black lung disease is posing a greater threat to coal miners in far southwest Virginia, and scientists aren't sure why.
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Outdoor wood-fired boilers are a fast-growing alternative energy fad â and for some, the latest suburban scourge.
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The iron ore producer is taking energy matters into its own hands.
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There's a new king of the King of Rock 'n' Roll's estate.
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The recent snowstorms that left millions without power in Southern China underscored the countryâs heavy dependence on coal and laid bare the glaring inadequacies of its production and distribution cycle.
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A gas explosion may be the country's worst coal-mine accident in recent years.
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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.