Fight Against Coal Plants Draws Diverse Partners
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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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By Monica Chen, The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C.  Feb. 18--Opponents to a 42-mile pipeline planned to run from York and Chester counties to Lancaster County have taken their fight to Columbia.
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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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By Amos Maki, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn.  Dec. 19--When Dan Cowan first laid his eyes on a heavily polluted  industrial site in Charleston, S.C., in 1998, he could hardly believe what he  saw.
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Which companies are doing their part to help the environment?
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Rubber tappers,  fishermen and Indians in western Brazil have joined  environmental groups in battling a planned $9 billion  hydroelectric project that will flood one of the Amazon's main  tributaries.
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A fire at a German nuclear power plant and the temporary shutdown of another has boosted supporters of plans to close the country's atomic energy program, despite concerns that coal- or gas-fired replacements will produce more greenhouse gases.
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During a strike, itâs enemies by day and friends by night.
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Some families are trying to save money and the planet, with energy from backyard turbines.
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Emboldened by a Supreme Court ruling this week that could force utility companies to upgrade aging coal-fired power plants, Georgia environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit Friday seeking to clean up one of the nation's largest coal plants.
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Groups supporting competing formats build support from their latest partners.
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The fight for the support of conservationists, hunters and anglers is being waged from the pages of Field and Stream magazine to the strategy sessions of the Sierra Club.
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By Ken Dey, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Jun. 13--Washington Group International will help design what backers are calling the nation's first coal-fueled, near-zero-emissions electric power plant.
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A VITAL lifeline is being thrown to woodland creatures in the region threatened with extinction.  Some butterflies and moths are in severe decline, but the Forestry Commission is taking action to improve their plight.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 18 -- A small Illinois town was chosen as the site of the world's first near-zero-emissions coal-burning plant Tuesday by the public-private alliance carrying out the project. Construction of the plant continues to be delayed, however, by concerns over its costs.
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By Erik Lacayo, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Dec. 14--ARMONA -- In an attempt to save their Armona farm from becoming a water treatment plant, members of a Texas family pleaded their case before the local water district Wednesday night.
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The federal government and a nonprofit group are buying the land from local farmers to ensure its biodiversity is preserved. BY LISA J. ADAMS /Associated Press.