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Coal is poisonous in all circumstances. That’s just reality. Chunks of coal, coal ash, leaching from the spoils of coal mining, and coal dust, which is the point of this diary. It’s pretty much ...
by John B Des Moines
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on Sun Jul 21, 2024 at 05:00 AM PDT
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China building two-thirds of world’s wind and solar projects https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/11/china-building-twice-as-much-wind-and-solar-power-as-rest-of-world-report China is also building 21 of the 90 planned nuclear power...
by gmoke
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on Fri Jul 12, 2024 at 06:05 PM PDT
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An op-ed in The Hill from the right-wing Heartland Institute showcases a new idea that, at first glance, seems like a joke: The U.S. should drop attempts to address the climate crisis because ...
by Mark Sumner
196 comments
on Mon Jun 17, 2024 at 09:30 AM PDT
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If you trek over to Open Secrets, you’ll find that quite a number of politicians, including some Democrats, are fond of campaign contributions from the fossil fuel industry. In fact, during his career, West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin has been a...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun May 26, 2024 at 10:59 AM PDT
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(Click here for an interactive version of the map above showing brief details for each coal plant.) The Biden-Harris administration on Thursday released its final rules to curb emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants. This will force...
by Meteor Blades
124 comments
on Thu Apr 25, 2024 at 07:52 AM PDT
with 291 Recommends
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Recently ran across this report on techxplore.com that does a deep dive into the sources of German power production since 1990, based on data from Clean Energy Wire: One year ago, Germany took its last three nuclear power stations offline. When it...
by Irontortoise
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on Thu Apr 25, 2024 at 05:21 PM PDT
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The Nation has picked up a hit piece that I originally read on DKos. This is the latest in a long campaign of misinformation and court filings designed to stop people from switching away from fossil fuel vehicles to electric vehicles. First, understand...
by CorpFlunky
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on Mon Apr 01, 2024 at 10:19 AM PDT
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Some good news for reducing GHG emissions in the USA. Due to the big drop in natural gas prices much of the coal burning fleet has been idled in favor of gas burners. We have dialed back coal consumption to the level during 1964. The previous low point...
by RustyRobot
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on Sat Mar 30, 2024 at 10:24 AM PDT
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As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at, to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wildfires,
by bigjacbigjacbigjac
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on Mon Mar 04, 2024 at 10:01 PM PST
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Polls have shown her to be the only candidate who has a ghost of a chance of edging out Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination, but Nikki Haley has a tough row to hoe to achieve that unless the courts take him out of the running before...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Jan 14, 2024 at 08:00 AM PST
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Dec 10, 2023 at 08:00 AM PST
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Global carbon emissions set record high, but US coal use drops to levels last seen in 1903 Coal plant closures, fuel-switching and renewables in the US led to an 18.3% decline in coal use, bringing it down to its 1903 level. The EU saw a drop of...
by Angmar
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on Tue Dec 05, 2023 at 02:10 PM PST
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Choices: unless we can live sustainably outside of the market, we all interact with the global marketplace when purchasing goods and services. For the most part, our clothes, food and furniture are common items that we must purchase. We try to choose...
by Alex Morales
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on Wed Nov 29, 2023 at 05:00 AM PST
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Guests: Matthew Lee and Rev. Dr. Jessica Moerman of the Evangelical Environmental Network Also: U.S. climate report details nationwide threats U.S., China deal to displace fossil fuels with renewables... A whole lot of climate related political news...
by TheBradBlog
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on Wed Nov 15, 2023 at 07:27 PM PST
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Nov 05, 2023 at 07:54 AM PST
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The spotlight is a weekly categorized compilation of links and excerpts from Daily Kos environmentally related posts. Any posts that are included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Sep 24, 2023 at 08:06 AM PDT
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Welcome to another fuzzy cup of coffee. Ah, brings me back to my college days, fuzzy coffee … This week I'm kicking off my weekly open thread with another slideshow from my summer vacation.
by Marko the Werelynx
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on Fri Sep 15, 2023 at 01:07 PM PDT
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Two new studies about the fossil fuel industry were published this past week. The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) found that the G20 nations pumped $1.4 trillion into explicit subsidies for the industry in 2022. In its study...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Aug 27, 2023 at 11:00 AM PDT
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Eighteen months ago I built a brick pizza oven. I love pizza but my crummy Westinghouse oven, which only reaches 195C maximum, makes lousy pizza. 200 and some bricks later, I was ready. If you want to build a pizza oven, it’s easier than you might...
by Adventurist
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on Sun Aug 06, 2023 at 02:23 PM PDT
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Energy is found in many, many forms, many of which we make the rhetorical mistake of naming after substances, or thinking of them as substances. We often call things like oil, coal, natural gas, etc. energy. We call the companies that extract these...
by joelado
42 comments
on Fri Aug 04, 2023 at 03:00 PM PDT
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