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American Petroleum Institute: Who Cares if the Clean Air Act Reduces Death...
The American Petroleum Institute is so bent on protecting the pollution industry that it is willing to cast public health aside in favor of saving a buck.American Petroleum InstituteJack Gerard read more
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Kiss My Ash: How King Coal’s Lobbyists Are Undermining Coal Ash Regulation
Is this toxic sludge 'hazardous'? Coal lobbyists are doing everything they can to force the EPA not to regulate it. Photo credit.DeSmogBlog and PolluterWatch present:Coal Fired Utilities to American...
View ArticleCoal Ash: Blatantly and Egregiously Hazardous
For information on the coal industry's backroom lobbying to prevent the classification of coal ash as "hazardous," check out the recent DeSmogBlog/PolluterWatch report, Coal Fired Utilities to American...
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Duke Second-in-Command Resigns Amid Revolving Door Ethics Scandal
Utility executive to utility regulator: "Would the ethics police have a cow if you and the woman came up some weekend?"UPDATE 4/13/2012: The Indianapolis Star's John Russel has compiled a full...
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EPA Dramatically Inflates Economic Benefits of Recycling Coal Ash
Photo Credit: New York TimesAmerican Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity ACCCEAmerican Electric PowerDuke EnergyMassey EnergyPeabody EnergySouthern CompanyAnthony Kavanagh Baxter F. PhillipsBill...
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Coal Lobby Loves Mercury
Crossposted from Greenpeace USA. American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity ACCCEAmerican Electric PowerDuke EnergyMassey EnergyPeabody EnergySouthern CompanyU.S. Chamber of CommerceAnthony Kavanagh...
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Halt Fracking! 68 Groups Say to Obama
The impact of fracking on clean water and health is questionable. Photo credit.Written by Kyle Ash, crossposted from Greenpeace USA.American Petroleum InstituteBPChevronConocoPhillipsExxonMobilU.S....
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Degrading the American Dream: Inside Koch’s Americans for Prosperity Convention
Last weekend was a wild one for climate action in our nation’s Capitol, between the protest outside a conference run by Koch Industries front group Americans for Prosperity and Sunday’s large street...
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Jeffrey Holmstead: the Coal Industry's Mercury Lobbyist (REPORT)
See the new Jeff Holmstead Mercury InfographicUpdated Nov. 2012American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity ACCCEAmerican Electric PowerDuke EnergyGenOn EnergySouthern CompanyJeffrey HolmsteadJohn...
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Obama’s “New” Climate Initiative
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View ArticleRomney's "War on Coal" TV ads mirror coal industry advertising
Mitt Romney released new TV ads this week about Obama “ruining” the coal industry, conveniently timed with a sudden House Republican push for the so-called “Stop the War on Coal Act.” American...
View ArticleCoal Miners in Romney TV ads were forced to attend rally
Last week, Greenpeace posted a comparison of Romney’s new “War on Coal” TV ads with coal industry advertising. Our analysis shows that Romney’s ads mirror four decades of coal industry advertising....
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VIDEO: Coal Polluter Lobbyist Confronted at Energy Event
Today at a well-attended energy forum hosted by Politico, I shed some light on the role of coal lobbyist Jeffrey Holmstead in blocking pollution reductions for his coal utility and mining clients...
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Climate-denying Indiana Regulator helps ALEC Coal Companies Delay EPA Climate...
Click here to see the contents of the ACCCE USB drive from ALEC's 2012 States & Nation Policy summit. You're probably familiar with the old "fox in the hen house" story, but what about when a hen...
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DeSmogBlog: Obama EPA Shut Down Weatherford, TX Shale Gas Water Contamination...
Originally posted by Steve Horn at DeSmogBlog.The Associated Press has a breaking investigative story out today revealing that the Obama Administration's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) censored...
View ArticleWATCH: Rachel Maddow on Climate Denial & Tin Foil Hats
Last week, six Greenpeace activists attended a U.S. House Energy & Power Subcommittee hearing on President Obama's climate change action plan. We stood out--we wore tin foil hats to highlight the...
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NC to Duke Energy: Have You Dumped ALEC Yet?
Amid a dump of leaked American Legislative Exchange Council documents published by The Guardian last week, North Carolina is asking Duke Energy: Have you finally dumped ALEC?American Electric PowerDuke...
View ArticleMan Who Defrauded EPA calls EPA "Fraudulent" on FOX
If you're John Stossel and you want to host a segment to rail against the US Environmental Protection Agency, who ought you call?It turns out, a man who was convicted and sentenced to six months in...
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Coal Lobbyist Jeff Holmstead Disqualified by Federal Judge in Ameren...
Jeff Holmstead, confronted for interfering with climate change solutions, while trying to catch a cab.Jeff Holmstead, perhaps the nation's prime example of a revolving door lobbyist, was dismissed by a...
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Willie Soon's Climate Denial: Southern Company Caught Polluting Science
The Southern Company is not only polluting the environment with carbon and other dangerous emissions -- it's also polluting the debate over climate policy by funding bad science. Photo: National...
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