Showing posts with label QUIT COAL. Show all posts
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China, Coal. Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.
China, Coal. Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.The Guardian's investigation into China's coal addiction contains some startling facts.
| Fri Jun. 5, 2015 3:54 PM EDT
The Guardian
Our Climate Desk partners at the Guardian have published a beautiful—and terrifying—multimedia story from deep inside China's coal belt. It's the third installment in the paper's ongoing "carbon bombs" series: investigations into giant fossil fuel projects from around the world that are super-charging global warming, or that have the potential to do so. Today's deep-dive into China's ravenous use of coal is eye-opening not only because it explores the long-lasting impact of burning coal on the nation's health, but also because it illustrates the country's outsized impact on global climate change through coal-related emissions. Here are some highlights from the Guardian story (which you should also check out for the gorgeous video and graphics): READ MORE
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Sunday, August 24, 2014
COAL DYING INDUSTRY
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Four Charts That Should Make the Coal Industry Nervous,
Very Nervous
Wind energy is on track to break records this year as renewable energy overtakes coal as the source of new electricity generation.
Todd Woody is TakePart's senior editor for environment and wildlife.
Coal-fired power plants still supply about half the United States’ electricity, but those days are numbered. One indicator: The American Wind Energy Association reported Monday that at the end of June, nearly 15,000 megawatts' worth of wind power was under construction.
How much coal-fired capacity was built in all of 2013? A grand total of 1,507 megawatts, according to the U.S. Energy Information Agency.
The U.S. installed three times more renewable energy capacity last year than it did coal. That's in comparison with the 6,861 megawatts’ worth of natural gas–fired power plants that came online in 2013. That capacity is just for so-called utility-scale power plants and doesn’t count, for example, solar panels installed by homeowners and businesses. Californians alone put more than 300 megawatts’ worth of solar panels on their roofs in 2013.
Keep in mind that just 1,032 megawatts of wind power capacity was built in 2013 because of the expiration of a key federal tax credit that brought the industry to a dead stop last year. In January, however, Congress extended the subsidy for another year, triggering the current building boom.
The map below shows how the renewable energy landscape has shifted over the past decade.
Hydropower historically has been by far the largest source of carbon-free electricity in the U.S., as the map from 2003 shows. But by last year, non-hydro renewable energy—mainly solar and wind—was routinely generating more electricity. “April marked the eighth consecutive month that total monthly non-hydro renewable generation exceeded hydropower generation,” the EIA reported last week, noting that the number of states where non-hydropower produced more electricity than hydropower has doubled to 33 since 2003.
Finally, this map shows where wind projects are under construction, indicating the growing economic stakes states have in promoting renewable energy. No state is more invested in wind power than oil-rich, Republican Texas, where nearly 60 percent of that 14,600 megawatts of new electricity capacity is being built.
The TRUTH will set you FREE.
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
SIERRA CLUB STORIES
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JANUARY 24, 2014
COAL TRAIN BLUES
Counterfeit Cash, a Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash tribute band based in Portland, Oregon, has just released a new music video, "Coal Train Blues," a cover of the Man in Black's famous hit "Folsom Prison Blues."
The revised lyrics tell about the health and environmental risks that coal exports pose to communities across the Pacific Northwest, including the beautiful Columbia River Gorge.
The video was produced by the Sierra Club's partners on the coal export fight -- Friends of the Columbia Gorge and the Power Past Coal coalition. Counterfeit Cash volunteered their talent for the cause.
"For us, taking part in this project was an easy decision," says Counterfeit Cash singer Daniel Coble, below. "What little is left of wild nature is being destroyed just to keep our toxic, growth-based economy going. We all need to be pushing back against this madness."
Coble rejects the notion that Cash's romanticism of trains might have extended to coal trains. "Johnny didn't romanticize coal. He sang songs like 'Loading Coal' ('And I'll sit around starvin' 'til I'm finally told/There's a nickel more a ton for loadin' coal'). Johnny loved trains, but he also loved wild, unspoiled nature."
Sierra Club organizer Laura Stevens says coal exports anywhere would harm communities everywhere. "From mining the coal in Montana to transporting it through the Pacific Northwest to burning the coal abroad and exacerbating climate disruption, coal exports threaten our environment and people's health. It is imperative to the health and safety of our communities that we stop dirty coal export projects in their tracks."
Learn more about what the Sierra Club is doing to stop coal exports, and follow Counterfeit Cash on Facebook.
The TRUTH will set you FREE.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
QUIT COAL
Somewhere in America a family will lose a loved one in the next hour as a result of pollution from coal-fired power plants.
Pollution from the coal industry isn’t just poisoning our communities. It’s polluting our political process as well. The millions of dollars they spend on lobbying and campaign contributions has allowed them to continue doing business as usual. But that’s changing.
Communities everywhere are standing up to the coal industry and doing what they have to do to keep their families safe and protect their air and water. And Greenpeace is supporting them.
Pollution from the coal industry isn’t just poisoning our communities. It’s polluting our political process as well. The millions of dollars they spend on lobbying and campaign contributions has allowed them to continue doing business as usual. But that’s changing.
Communities everywhere are standing up to the coal industry and doing what they have to do to keep their families safe and protect their air and water. And Greenpeace is supporting them.
BECAUSE WE DESERVE SAFE and CLEAN ENERGY
Please see video here :http://www.quitcoal.org/psa
The TRUTH will set you FREE.
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