by faster | Mar 4, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Inside Climate News and The Guardian DATE: March 4, 2019 SNIP: Almost every coal-fired power plant in the US is contaminating groundwater with unsafe levels of toxic pollution, according to the first comprehensive analysis of the consequences of coal ash waste...
by faster | Jan 17, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Texas Tribune DATE: January 17, 2019 SNIP: As the Trump administration considers weakening Obama-era safeguards for the disposal of toxic coal waste, a new report shows that groundwater near all of Texas’ 16 monitored coal-fired power plants is contaminated...
by faster | Jan 3, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: e360 DATE: January 3, 2019 SNIP: China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), launched by President Xi Jinping in 2013, has been described as the most ambitious infrastructure project in history. It is a plan to finance and build roads, railways, bridges, ports,...
by faster | Dec 6, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: NYTimes and NPR DATE: December 6, 2018 SNIP: The Trump administration plans to eliminate an Obama-era requirement that new coal-fired power plants have expensive technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions. This latest administration effort to boost fossil...
by faster | Nov 16, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: DeSmogBlog DATE: November 16, 2018 SNIP: When someone charges a cellphone or flips on the lights, what costs are felt by the far-off communities that produced the coal or gas powering that home? What happens to those same communities when a utility decides to...
