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Federal Energy Regulatory Commission chair Jon Wellinghoff says forget about coal and nuclear power, they’re too expensive, renewable power is what we need. Wellinghoff said renewables like wind, solar and biomass will provide enough energy to meet baseload capacity and future energy demands. Nuclear and coal plants are too expensive, he added. “I think baseload [...] The highly destructive practice of blowing up mountain tops to get at coal, with dumping of waste and rocks into valleys and streams has been put on immediate hold by the EPA until they review environmental impacts. It’s so nice to have sane people running the government again. [...] In a welcome reversal from the do-nothing days of Bush’s EPA, new EPA administrator Lisa Jackson revoked an air permit granted by the Bushies for a coal plant in South Dakota. The Sierra Club said “EPA is signaling that it is back to enforcing long-standing legal requirements fairly and consistently nationwide.” Indeed. Obama directs EPA [...] Photo: J. Miles Carey/Knoxville News Sentinel, via Associated Press 300 million gallon of toxic coal sludge broke through a dam and has deluged hundreds of acres of land near Knoxville, Tennessee. Unlike flood waters, which eventually recede, it looks like much of this highly toxic glop will remain. Naturally, BushCo officials are doing nothing [...] Bank of America, a lead financier of coal, announced that they will be phasing out financing for companies that practice mountaintop removal coal mining, a highly destructive and controversial method of coal extraction. This is the direct result of a whole lot of work by Appalachian activists and groups like Rainforest Action Network, who [...] Such a switch would not be easy, but Canada is considering doing it. Figuring out how to burn biomass such as wood or switchgrass pellets could solve many problems at once. The government could make good on its commitment to phase out coal. It could keep a sizeable amount of electricity generation in the area [...] Full details at Coalfinger.com. Sign up now to help defeat the Coal Menace. From Earth2tech, who has more on utilities switching to anything but coal. Why? Because coal must be stopped if we are to halt global warming. The New York Times today reports that Europe, which will meet its Kyoto obligations by purchasing pollution credits from other countries, is turning back to coal. Europe will construct 50 new coal plants over the next few years (that’s about what China constructs in six months). Yikes. Just when the planet needs less carbon [...] |  | ||||
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