An Rx for cleaner air : News

An Rx for cleaner air : News

The true price of AMerican oil and gas: It’s Time to Break With Saudi Arabia’s ‘Kingdom of Horrors’ (from @Truthdig)

It’s Time to Break With Saudi Arabia’s ‘Kingdom of Horrors’ (from @Truthdig)

The Leap Manifesto: A Call for Caring for the Earth and One Another

The Leap Manifesto: A Call for Caring for the Earth and One Another

Help Protect Our Water from Coal Mining Pollution on September 10

Help Protect Our Water from Coal Mining Pollution on September 10

Why It's so Hard to Regulate Fracking

Why It's so Hard to Regulate Fracking

The Human Cost of America's Energy Boom

The Human Cost of America's Energy Boom

New EPA tool for mapping Environmental (In)Justice

http://www2.epa.gov/ejscreen

Climate message to transport unions: mobilize in Paris, build alliances back home

Climate message to transport unions: mobilize in Paris, build alliances back home

Peabody to cut 250 corporate and regional jobs, including 50 in downtown St. Louis : Business

Peabody to cut 250 corporate and regional jobs, including 50 in downtown St. Louis : Business

MORE's Statement in Response to Peabody's Corporate Layoffs

Sorry to see folks lose jobs, but these are dirty jobs for a dirty company.  Hope they can find something cleaner.



MORE's Statement in Response to Peabody's Corporate Layoffs

Can't make this up, but Peabody tried: #Ebola & #dirtycoal Coal giant exploited Ebola crisis for corporate gain, say health experts

Coal giant exploited Ebola crisis for corporate gain, say health experts



Also, see links to @WUSTL in PowerPoint that Peabody presented to the Norwegians in 2014, after which Norwegians decided to divest from all coal investments.

Solidarity from some wonderful Towson students, engaging #dirtycoal destruction and MTR

Definitely have to take some time to read through these student essays after first-hand engagement with mountain-top removal.

http://keeperofthemountains.tumblr.com

Visit site: http://keeperofthemountains.tumblr.com

Why W.Va.’s coalfields can’t have nice things

Why W.Va.’s coalfields can’t have nice things

Why doctors @wustl @wustlmed @WUSTLpubhealth @BarnesJewish should speak against coal.

Or take hypocritical oath. https://t.co/I2tdiNajOT

— SLSProject (@slsproject) May 19, 2015

Local democracy vs. Dirty Coal (Ameren's coal ash dump planned for Labadie/MO river floodplain)

Coal state senators introduce package of 5 'clean coal' bills

Coal state senators introduce package of 5 'clean coal' bills

Australia: The new coal frontier

Australia: The new coal frontier

Patriot Coal. Peabody's Spawn, and the bankruptcy scheme

What does bankruptcy mean?  Executives walk away wealthy.  Workers and retirees are abandoned to poor health and no benefits.  Land and water left polluted.

These are our partners, Washington University in St Louis.


Updated, via Ken Ward (5/12/15): Patriot Files for Chapter 11, Again 

From Ken Ward:

"Also late last month, the federal Office of Surface Mining had warned the state Department of Environmental Protection about the potential for huge water pollution treatment liabilities given the “precarious financial situation that many of the state’s coal companies find themselves in today.” Patriot is among the companies that have agreed to legal settlements that require expensive treatment to control toxic selenium runoff from its mine sites. Patriot also agreed to phase out the use of mountaintop removal mining in Central Appalachia.
“With the rise of affordable clean energy, stronger clean air and water protections, declining coal reserves, and an increasing realization that coal is the key contributor to climate disruption, companies like Patriot and its parent Peabody are now faced with the reality that coal is no longer king in America,” said Bruce Nilles, senior director of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign.
“It is critical at this moment for state, regional, and federal leaders to acknowledge the declining role of coal mining in the economic life of the region, and to chart a viable course for the region’s economic future,” Nilles said. “Mine operators like Patriot and Peabody Energy, together with the state of West Virginia and the federal government, must commit to do far more to ensure a just, equitable transition for the region’s workers.”

And:   Patriot Coal files for bankruptcy.

SNL: Patriot in 'advanced stage' of asset sales talks, discloses Illinois Basin deals | SNL

Patriot Coal, a spin-off of Peabody that aimed to shed pension and health obligations for retirees, now completing its mission: to go bankrupt while enriching as many executives as possible.

Alberta election shock: More evidence that 'class and climate' politics can win?

Alberta election shock: More evidence that 'class and climate' politics can win?

Investments in Fossil Fuels Cost Harvard $21 Million

Investments in Fossil Fuels Cost Harvard $21 Million

What we've been saying: Data problem clouds annual St. Louis air report; ozone improves but still gets an 'F'

Data problem clouds annual St. Louis air report; ozone improves but still gets an 'F'

US to launch blitz of gas exports, eyes global energy dominance

US to launch blitz of gas exports, eyes global energy dominance

Would be funny, if not so true. Obama rips into the "bull(#*$" of climate science denial....

At Peabody Coal, we take pride in polluting the earth

We should be doing everything we can to make these numbers go down, and celebrate them going down.  And yes, that means finding other economies, other jobs, other possibilities.  But for the moment, Peabody loves its coal trains...

2015 Missouri Earth Day Rally at the Capitol Bldng, Jefferson City

Small but rising tide in this coal-ash state.

HSBC outlines four ways to divest from fossil fuels | Carbon Brief

Handy guide for our money managers...

HSBC outlines four ways to divest from fossil fuels | Carbon Brief

Peabody Coal, #Dirty Coal, #Criminal Coal: Regret to Inform You: Coal Blasting Rages On

Regret to Inform You: Coal Blasting Rages On

Why Ameren is part of the problem, not part of the solution: Carbon Lock-In: Ameren shareholder proposals fail to win majority : Business

Ameren shareholder proposals fail to win majority : Business



Finally, the shareholder activist group As You Sow proposed tying the company’s executive compensation to reductions in carbon dioxide. Only owners of 6.7 percent of the company’s stock voted in favor of the resolution.

USGS lets Oklahoma governor reveal it first, but here's the national report on seismicity related to wastewater and fluid injection

Another reason we need to just move on...
Full report available here: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2015/1070/pdf/ofr2015-1070.pdf

Earth day: leading scientists say 75% of known fossil fuels must stay underground

Earth day: leading scientists say 75% of known fossil fuels must stay underground

Yemen as War of Right-Wing Billionaire Establishment in the Middle East

Yemen as War of Right-Wing Billionaire Establishment in the Middle East
On the attempt to maintain elite control in a region marked by deep inequalities, dwindling oil resources, and water scarcity, and on the US' contradictory place therein...

"This, of course, creates certain logical disconnects.

The United States is supporting the Saudi bombing in Yemen because the Houthis are allied with Iran and because Washington relies on the Yemeni government as a partner against al-Qaeda. But in Iraq, the U.S. is tacitly cooperating with Iran in the war on the Islamic State, or ISIS. And while the Saudi government is opposed to the Islamic State and al-Qaeda, aided by U.S. intelligence, it’s attacking one of the major forces fighting al-Qaeda in Yemen — the Houthis.

In the meantime, the Gulf Council has stepped up its support of the Nusra Front in Syria, a group tied to al-Qaeda and a sworn enemy of the Gulf monarchies as well as the United States."

Read the rest of the article here.

Our Power: Battling Austerity with a Bold Green Vision | This Changes Everything

Our Power: Battling Austerity with a Bold Green Vision | This Changes Everything

Blockadia Rising

As we've been saying, this is a political issue, not a technological problem: Five years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, we are closer than ever to catastrophe

Five years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, we are closer than ever to catastrophe

Students take Chancellor of Washington University St Louis to see Peabody and other coal industry destruction, Southern Illinois

Source: http://studentsagainstpeabody.tumblr.com

On this day in 1914, the Ludlow Massacre: Violent state at the service of criminal coal. History repeats itself.

Judges Skeptical of Challenge to Proposed E.P.A. Rule on Climate Change

Judges Skeptical of Challenge to Proposed E.P.A. Rule on Climate Change



Peabody and Murray -- the two companies stripping out Southern Illinois, are also suing the EPA.

2015 Could Be the Start of a Green Energy Revolution | The Nation

2015 Could Be the Start of a Green Energy Revolution | The Nation

George Will is ranting and raving incoherent things again: ‘Sustainability’ gone mad on college campuses

‘Sustainability’ gone mad on college campuses

"College tuitions are soaring in tandem with thickening layers of administrative bloat. So here is a proposal: Hundreds of millions could be saved, with no cost to any institution’s core educational mission, by eliminating every position whose title contains the word “sustainability” — and, while we are at it, “diversity,” “multicultural” or “inclusivity.” The result would be higher education higher than the propaganda-saturated version we have, and more sustainable."

Bad title, bad idea, not 'greener' at all: Making fracking greener | Chemistry World

Making fracking greener | Chemistry World

In case you like your science auto-tuned, check out Isaac Asimov et al, giving basic facts on global warming

Corny, but good, auto-tuned science, in case it helps you get the point:  fossil fuel burning is making the planet too hot.