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youtube.com - 2/4/2009

Coal Ash Spill Reveals: Coal Isn't Clean (video)

— youtube.com — The December 22, 2008 Kingston coal ash spill was 100 times larger than the Exxon Valdez spill,... destroying homes and contaminating rivers with arsenic, selen... (more) Coal Ash Spill Reveals: Coal Isn't Clean (video)

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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 2/2/2009

Is the FutureGen 'Clean Coal' Project Back in the Stimulus Bill?

— tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com — President Obama has been a longtime supporter of "clean coal," the still-illusory concept of coal-fired power plants... that can capture and store the carbon emissions that they generate. The environmental movement tends to view "clean coal" with ... (more) Is the FutureGen 'Clean Coal' Project Back in the ...

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americanprogress.org - 1/30/2009

Clean Energy, Clean Jobs

— americanprogress.org — By Daniel J. Weiss , Alexandra Kougentakis | January 26, 2009 Chart: See the data Read more:... Re-energizing the Economy Even before he was sworn in as the 44th president, Barack Obama devoted laserlike focus to devising an economic recovery package to ... (more) Clean Energy, Clean Jobs

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Where's the Green Stimulus?
Booman Tribune — ... according to Keith Martin, a tax and project finance specialist with the law firm Chadbourne & Parke. Wind and solar developers have been left starved for capital. “It’s absolutely frozen,” said Craig Mataczynski, president of Renewable Energy Systems Americas, a wind developer. He projected his company would build just under half as much this year as it did last year. Unfortunately, instead of pushing for immediate help for green technologies, the Senate is looking to add in billions of boondoggle funding for "clean coal" an oxymoron if I ever heard one: Now that the ...

Speaker Pelosi, Let’s Take Back The Senate’s 55 Billion Gift To Nukes And Coal
Firedoglake — ... Speaker Pelosi, the lads in the Senate left a big mess to clean up: they've bagged up more than 50 billion stimulus dollars for coal and nukes. Like addicts everywhere, the coal and nuke junkies will starve families and steal from strangers to keep the fixes going. Speaker Pelosi, how can we help you stop the deal from going down? The Senate voted to waste 50 billion on loan-guarantee subsidies for nuclear power plants and 4.6 billion on an all-expenses paid hunt for the "clean coal" unicorn. It appears their donors got ...