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Coal Losing Steam
June 1, 2012 4 min. read

It is abundantly clear that if we are going to conquer our climate change demons, then we’ve got to radically reduce the burning of coal on our splendid but increasingly stressed planet.  Carbon dioxide is still the primary driver of warming and coal is still the primary source of carbon dioxide from fuel combustion. Of […]

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Natural Gas in the Senate
September 12, 2009 2 min. read

I wrote recently about some solid policy analysis that would move the US off its massive dependency on coal for electricity toward a greater reliance on natural gas – until renewables fully kick into their potential.  (Limitless, not incidentally.)  A few days after my post, there was a depressing article in the “NY Times” about […]

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The Crime of Mountaintop Removal Mining
May 13, 2008 3 min. read

With the West Virginia primary tomorrow, and Kentucky next week, coal and coal mining become more visible as issues.  I wrote about this in April at Quick Political Note , Coal and the Candidates. The Sundance Channel is going to premier a blockbuster movie, Burning the Future: Coal in America, tomorrow night.  That’s 9:35 PM […]

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