Sixty-seven mountains leveled and over 156,000 acres of land lost. Countless communities sickened by heavy metals and coal ash contamination. A warming planet threatens our coastlines and promises ever-increasing extreme weather events. From the cradle to the grave, coal is a dangerous source of energy. It is time to move away from coal, and on [...]
Entries Tagged as 'climate-change'
Moving past coal: Let’s Energize Virginia with Offshore Wind
May 26th, 2011 · No Comments
Tags: All Posts · climate-change · renewable-energy
Artists for the Climate - Sunday in Alexandria
April 12th, 2011 · No Comments
For almost a decade, residents of Alexandria have been fighting to retire GenOn’s Potomac River Coal Plant, a 61-year-old dirty power plant.
Those efforts have forced the company that owns the plant, GenOn (formerly Mirant), to set aside $34 million in an effort to contain some of the plant’s pollution, but this is not enough. A [...]
Tags: climate-change · general
Daily Press: Williamsburg council urged to speed up opposition of Surry coal plant
November 18th, 2010 · No Comments
Here is an excerpt from the Daily Press article by Dan Parsons. You can read the whole article here.
WILLIAMSBURG —Plans are in the works for the Williamsburg City Council to issue a formal stance on the proposed Surry County coal plant when the call goes out for public input on plant permits, but speakers at [...]
Tags: Surry Coal Plant · climate-change · coal · press
Dominion’s Farrell calls for honest debate on energy
November 18th, 2010 · No Comments
From the Richmond Times Dispatch. You can read the whole article here, excerpt below.
The CEO of the state’s largest utility said there must be a realistic conversation about the sustainability of alternative energy resources before a national energy policy can be made.
“Our habit of debating energy issues is to talk back at each other. We [...]
Tags: climate-change · coal · energy-efficiency · mountaintop-removal · renewable-energy
Virginia’s Air Pollution Control Board rebukes Cuccinelli over EPA lawsuit
March 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment
At Yesterday’s (Friday, March 26th) Air Board Meeting the board voted 4 to 3 to announce to the EPA that the Air Board did not ask for Cuccinelli’s law suit challenging the EPA’s greenhouse gas ruling. Basically they are saying, Virginia’s environmental regulators do not stand with Virginia’s attorney general in his effort to use [...]
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Virginia’s AG’s already making headlines!
February 19th, 2010 · No Comments
Reposted from The Chesapeake Climate Action Network’s Blog.
Today was another day for Virginia to make headlines. Like most headlines of late, this wasn’t a good one either. Our new Attorney General has made the environment one of his top priorities. Shouldn’t this be a GOOD thing you ask? In some instances, yes, but not when [...]
Tags: climate-change · coal
Green is the New Black
February 16th, 2010 · No Comments
Dominion stokes the coal industry, but says it’s a friend to the environment
BY ERIKA HOWSARE of the Cville Weekly
It’s a dim, drizzly afternoon, and I’m riding around Wise County with Kathy and Gary Selvage. I can see what they’re pointing out—evidence of surface mining—but I can’t see it the way they do.
The Selvages have [...]
Tags: Surry Coal Plant · climate-change · coal · mountaintop-removal · press · renewable-energy
Press Release: Few Local Jobs from Coal Plant
February 1st, 2010 · 2 Comments
PRESS RELEASE from the Wise Energy for Virginia Coalition
www.WiseEnergyForVirginia.org
February 1, 2010
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NEW ECONOMIC REPORT SHOWS FEW JOBS FROM PROPOSED COAL PLANT IN SURRY COUNTY WOULD GO TO LOCAL RESIDENTS
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CONTACT:
Scott Moore, Moore Data LLC, 843-564-5257
Tom Cormons, Appalachian Voices, 301-910-8973
Cale Jaffe, Southern Environmental Law Center, 434-760-0816
Download the full report
Dendron, VA—At a public hearing tonight, the [...]
Tags: Surry Coal Plant · climate-change · coal · press
EPA to Set New Smog (Ozone) Limits
January 7th, 2010 · No Comments
Today the EPA announced plans to seek stronger limits of pollution forming ozone. EPA administrator said in a statement, “Smog in the air we breathe poses a very serious health threat, especially to children and individuals suffering from asthma and lung disease.”
The current limit, set by the Bush administration EPA, is 75 parts per billion [...]
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App Voices’ Matt Wasson Finds Major Flaws in the Nature Conservancy’s “Energy Sprawl” Report
October 11th, 2009 · No Comments
As Congress was returning from the August recess, there wasn’t much news about the climate bill. The only energy-related news breaking through the coverage of the rancorous health care debates and town-hall tea parties was a study on “energy sprawl” published by five staff members of the Nature Conservancy.
“Renewable Energy Needs Land, Lots Of Land” [...]
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Another Coal Plant Goes Down
August 25th, 2009 · No Comments
This Time in South Carolina
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Cross posted from the Appalachian Voices Front Porch Blog
Today rate-payers and oxygen users can breathe a little easier, as the Santee Cooper company nixed its plans to build another coal plant in the state.
A committee of the state-owned utility voted this morning to suspend an effort to secure permits [...]
Tags: climate-change · coal
Life’s a beach.
August 10th, 2009 · No Comments
cross-posted from the CCAN blog.
This morning, CCAN staff, volunteers and concerned Americans nationwide staged series of beach-themed rallies in around fifty cities across the country. Held in partnership with 1Sky, the festive gathering sought to urge our Senators to enact climate legislation that ensures a real cap on CO2, dictated by the EPA, as [...]
Tags: climate-change · general · renewable-energy
“Unnatural Mail Enhancement”
August 5th, 2009 · No Comments
Cross posted from Appalachian Voices Front Porch Blog
Congressman Tom Perriello (VA-05) was just on Rachel Maddow talking about Bonner/ACCCE’s fraudulent attempts to get him to vote against climate legislation. The fossil fuel industry has completely destroyed their fragile credibility, and things are heating up for ACCCE and their corporate lobbying partners with increasing calls for [...]
Tags: climate-change · coal · press
King Coal’s stranglehold on Virginia.
August 4th, 2009 · No Comments
cross-posted from the CCAN Blog
Virginians are no stranger to coal. A state that currently generates 42% of its electricity from the old-school fossil fuel, we are used to living in a political culture that accepts – and endorses – the adherence to a fuel as old as the dinosaurs, and equally archaic. Major players in [...]
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Fossil Fuel Lobby Damages its own Fragile Credibility
August 3rd, 2009 · No Comments
Cross posted from Appalachian Voices’ Front Porch Blog
Polluting Industries Caught Forging Support
When you are a small non-profit working to reform billion dollar industries, you can take some solace when the other side is damaging their own case far more seriously than regular citizens ever could. The last few days have been a highlight reel of [...]
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