A trailer of the upcoming film, Burning the Future. The film takes a hard look at the environmental and human effects of strip mining coal in the US. I just watched it and while I cannot wait to see the entire film, it made me sick to my stomach that this goes on in so [...]
Dear EarthTalk: As I understand it, “clean” coal really isn’t—yet the Bush Administration gushed strongly for it. What is Obama’s take on it?
Barack Obama and George W. Bush differ in many ways, but both have embraced so-called “clean coal” for providing an ongoing supply of cheap and readily available energy for electricity generation.
The term [...]
Dear EarthTalk: What were the environmental impacts of the huge coal ash spill in Tennessee this past December?
Environmentalists’ call for an end to the age of coal—one of the dirtiest and most common of all the fossil fuels we now use—took on new urgency this past December when some 525 million gallons of wet [...]
From the Reality Coalition, who are debunking the myth of “clean coal”. The video is pretty funny, and sadly true. Coal companies are spending huge sums of money marketing coal as “clean” rather than actually making it so. But the truth is in America, burning coal for electricity emits more global warming pollution than [...]
