Leaders of G7 countries at this weekend’s summit in Germany are being called on today to show leadership by pledging to end all coal burning for electricity generation in the industrialized world. The Niederaussem power plant in Germany is high on Europe’s “Dirty 30” list of CO2 emitters. Photo credit: Henning Mühlinghaus / Flickr “Let […]
Greg Abel, a potential successor to Warren Buffett, is in the hot seat. As the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Energy, he will decide how one of America’s biggest utilities will meet the challenge of climate disruption and whether the companies he manages will remain stuck on polluting, outdated coal or commit to clean energy. Sierra Club ran […]
Coal is in the news a lot these days. The market forces and much-needed environmental and health protections cornering the dirty fuel are topics of endless interest as America’s energy landscape shifts toward cleaner sources. And yes, all signs point to coal’s continued decline. Even as coal production declines, mountaintop removal mining keeps closing in […]
Consequences of Duke Energy’s massive coal ash spill into North Carolina’s Dan River last February are still being felt, as dozens of residents near the site have been warned by state officials Tuesday not to drink or cook with the water from wells after tests results showed toxic contamination, according to a report from the Associated […]
Calling for a “national, coordinated response to the humanitarian disaster of mountaintop removal mining,” CREDO Action launched an extraordinary petition drive this past weekend for Congress to pass the Appalachian Community Health Emergency Act (ACHE Act) and place an immediate moratorium on “the deadliest and most destructive form of coal mining.” Within 24 hours, more […]
When world leaders gather in Paris in December for the UN conference on climate change, they’ll be standing up for pledges their countries have made to cut their climate change-driving greenhouse gas emissions. They’re hoping to hammer out a treaty that would result in global warming being limited to 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit above pre-industrial levels. […]
An escalating series of lawsuits, government rulings, banking decisions and breakthrough health studies has brought the fate of devastating mountaintop removal mining in central Appalachia to the doorstep of state and federal decision-makers this week. Mountaintop removal is not just on the ropes—it’s down for the count—and several fronts carry the same knockout message: Given […]
With mountaintop removal mining on the ropes, as the last bank financiers ditch lending support amid new scientific research that demonstrates “solid evidence that dust collected from residential areas near mountaintop removal sites causes cancerous changes to human lung cells,” residents from across central Appalachia’s coal country are converging today on the West Virginia Department of […]
A reinvigorated “People’s Foot” movement to end mountaintop removal is ramping up its efforts next week, as the last vestiges of outside support begin to abandon the nation’s most egregious strip mining operations in central Appalachia. “Mountaintop removal is on the ropes,” said Bob Kincaid, with the Appalachian Community Health Emergency campaign and board president […]
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