This past Saturday I joined a dozen other hybrid owners on a gorgeous spring day to… Circle the Capitol in Richmond! Yes, you read that correctly, I woke up early and covered my friend’s Toyota Prius in streamers and balloons and battled downtown Richmond traffic and construction on Broad Street. I did this to send [...]

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Mountaintop removal is hard to ignore when it’s in your backyard. Bo Webb, whose home on Cherry Pond Mountain lies near an active mountaintop removal mine. In his recent letter to President Obama, asking him to take executive action against the destructive mining practice, Webb painted a picture of how living near a mine site [...]

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“What you have right now is uncertainty,” said Wayne Leonard, CEO of Entergy, a Fortune 500 power company. “When you look at the risks around the coal plant at this time, it’s very hard to justify.”
See the full article from USA today.

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The “Economist” looks at the difficult future of carbon capture and storage technology. The folks at the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), a PR front group for the coal industry, are working hard to get us to believe that coal can be clean. Their funders want us to believe it so badly [...]

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On Saturday March 21st, CCAN will hold a hybrid car parade around the Capitol Building in Richmond. Help us drive home the message to VA legislators that efficiency is good for Virginia!
Join us to support Gov. Kaine’s efforts to re-insert the 19% target into the two efficiency bills passed this session by the General Assembly.

March [...]

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Week in Washington Video Clip from 2008
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The 4th Annual End Mountaintop Removal Week in Washington promises to be a truly historic event. With a new congress and administration, we have a real opportunity to pass the Clean Water Protection Act in the House of Representatives this [...]

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Excerpt:
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
RICHMOND, Va. — A state law authorizing construction of a power station in southwestern Virginia is unconstitutional because it requires the plant to burn Virginia coal, a lawyer for environmentalists challenging the project told the Virginia Supreme Court on Wednesday.
“Explicit preferences such as this violate [...]

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