As the Bush era wound down, power companies rushed to build hundreds of new coal-fired power plants. activists picked them off one by one--until a Sierra Club lawyer found a chink in the Law that just might stop them all . . . Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
A good behind the scenes story on the legal effort that may have stopped new polluting US coal plants.
Unlike industry press releases, there is disclosure of the funding and resources. Even taking this into account, it is a good look at the problems of coal, that must be solved since it will be with us for many more years no matter what other paths we go down.
I hopr that this will expedite new technologies since industry normally goes with what is cheaper, not better3
An in depth explanation of efforts to block new coal fired electric plants and how changes in the Obama EPA have in effect created a moratorium on all new plants and frozen existing permits from the Bush era.
It is a very boring long article that I couldnt really finish totally. IT is uninteresting and I feel it seemslike a blog that a trusted news source.
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