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China, Coal, and Global Pollution

China's polluted environment is measurably affecting the global weather, contributing substantially to the layer of particulates, gases, and smoke that shrouds the planet. Despite cleanup efforts undertaken in advance of the Olympic Games, the problem is expected to grow worse in years to come.

Feed : Britannica Blog | Updated : 3 months ago

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Popular Movements Are Not Funded By Billionaires and Oil Companies

I just came back from the Capitol, where Moveon volunteers and conservative movement group staffers were holding competing rallies around oil leasing (the full flickr set is here). Patrick Ruffini, one of the smartest consultants on the right, thinks this marks a turning point for the right. For the first time, he says, Moveon has mobilizes against "the House Republicans and the rightosphere". The problem with this formulation is that the people that I spoke from Moveon came because they were v...

Feed : Open Left - Front Page | Updated : 3 months ago

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coal dust - prairie dust - star dust

American Images from the Library of Congress Prepared and Printed by Michael Poster September 3 - September 30 Opening Reception September 5, 6:00 - 9:00pm Camerawork Gallery Downstairs, in the Marquis Gallery at the Laundry Building 515 Center Street, Scranton, PA 18503

Feed : Backroads Project | Updated : 3 months ago

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stop coal mining in ned, lake sebu!

Keith Bacongco posted a photo:

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Coal-rich South Africa Announces Plans to Reduce Emissions

[Yale Environment 360] Van Schalkwyk said he foresaw South Africas overall carbon emissions unavoidably rising by about 20 percent until about 2025, after which they would begin a steady decline. This announcement is significant because South Africa generates about 90 percent of its electricity from coal, has some of the world's largest proven coal reserves, and has long promoted itself as a destination for energy-intensive industry.

Feed : The Green Files | Updated : 3 months ago

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Nature takes a closer look at coal in China

A couple of weeks into the early reporting for a story on the prospects for advanced coal use in China, which I wrote for the latest issue of Nature, I started to get nervous. I had already talked to several Western researchers and observers, but our first major contact in China fell through (for reasons that were never entirely clear) and the dozens of emails I sent out to Chinese scientists and policymakers simply disappeared into a void. But our thesis seemed sound, and everybody I talked to...

Feed : Climate Feedback | Updated : 3 months ago

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Coal Mine Pizza's Penne a la vodka - yummy but rich

Coal Mine Pizza in Boca Raton gave me a very simple recipe for penne with vodka sauce. When I went to make it I realized how rich it is. It includes heavy cream, 1 cup parmesan cheese, 4 ounces prosciutto,...

Feed : Chew On This: Converse with contributors to the Food Section | Sun-Sentinel Blogs | Updated : 3 months ago

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A Thai activist from Greenpeace hold balloons with CO2 printed on them to symbolize carbon emissions from the constr...

AP - A Thai activist from Greenpeace hold balloons with CO2 printed on them to symbolize carbon emissions from the construction of new coal power plants in Thailand during a protest in front of Ministry of Energy in Bangkok Monday, July 21, 2008.

Feed : Yahoo! Actualités : Thaïlande : actualité de la Thaïlande, Coup d État militaire | Updated : 3 months ago

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Carved Wooden Sign Restoration: Arlington Coal and Lumber Company

One of the things that we do on a regular basis is restore carved and sandblasted wooden signs. Usually they are signs that we have done in the past, and the time comes that they need to be repainted or...

Feed : Lincoln Sign Company | Updated : 3 months ago

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Greenpeace - Making Waves: In coal hell

I was standing at the bow of the Rainbow Warrior filming. I could hear my heart beating. The first daylight made its way through the clouds and the nose of a tug boat was only meters away from my...

Feed : The Greenpeace weblog | Updated : 3 months ago

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