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EPA reaches deal with Duke Energy over coal ash spill
2014-05-22 23:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Federal environmental officials said Thursday that they have reached a deal with Duke Energy to clean up its mess from a massive coal ash spill into the Dan river. The US Environmental Protection Agency announced it had finalized an enforceable agreement with the nation's largest electricity company over the February 2 accident. The spill coated 70 miles of the river in North Carolina and Virginia with toxic gray sludge. EPA will oversee the cleanup in consultation with federal wildlife officials...
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Time for Frances Biggest Bank to Stop Funding Mountaintop Removal Coal
2014-05-22 01:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Rainforest Action Network: The campaign to stop bank financing of mountaintop removal coal mining is gaining momentum. For years, RAN and other organizations in the global BankTrack network have urged U.S. and European banks to stop financing the devastation caused by mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining. BankTrack members have worked closely with advocates from Appalachia -- the region hardest hit by MTR -- including Paul Corbit Brown and Elise Keaton from Keeper of the Mountains, and Bob Kincaid from Coal River Mountain...
Public comment in Bellingham on oil, coal trains
2014-05-20 10:52:15| Railroads - Topix.net
Oil and coal trains are among the issues on the agenda for Tuesday's meeting of the state Transportation Commission in Bellingham.
Coal, climate change collide as customers query Aussie banks' green credentials
2014-05-20 03:16:13| Automakers - Topix.net
After 35 years of banking with big Australian banks like National Australia Bank , Paula and Peter Samson closed their accounts to protest the lenders' exposure to the polluting fossil fuel industry.
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Inslee wants to wean electric utilities off coal
2014-05-19 02:23:36| Energy - Topix.net
With an abundant supply of hydroelectric power, Washington state currently gets less than 14 percent of its electricity from coal.
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