October 20, 2009 – 12:49 pm
A number-filled report released yesterday by the National Academy of Sciences suggests that our current fossil fuel-based transportation economy isn’t as cheap as we think it to be — yet it’s just as crude. (Ha!)
According to The New York Times‘ summary of this report, the United States loses approximately $120 billion every year due to [...]
September 30, 2009 – 5:51 pm
Corporate python Massey Energy has filed suit against the latest sign-wielding human to bring its destructive mountaintop removal mining practices to a halt. From the AP, reporting in Morgantown, West Virginia:
Massey did not immediately comment on its cases Wednesday, but court filings suggest the protesters are having a measurable, if minor, impact on the bottom [...]
August 21, 2009 – 11:02 am
Researchers at Duke University have discovered that coal ash — that viscous by-product of coal-fired power plants — is extremely detrimental to living, as samples taken from last December’s disastrous Kingston, Tenn., spill have been found to contain high levels of arsenic, mercury and radium — things you really don’t want to be breathing.
“Our findings [...]
And maybe an award, too: The National League of Cities and CH2M, an enviro-engineering firm, have announced that the Go-Green Louisville initiative is a finalist for a 2009 Award for Municipal Excellence, which is given to a municipality that best demonstrates its efforts to improve in some way the quality of life for its citizens.
Under [...]
According to a new report released by the Ochs Center for Metropolitan Studies, 8,750 new jobs and $1.7 billion dollars in economic activity can be generated in central and eastern Kentucky via those sustainable “green-economy” alternative-energy jobs Your President is always babbling about. However, the Eastern Kentucky Power Cooperative (EKPC) holds dominion over this 87-county [...]
Not really. In fact, quite the opposite; the EPA has released a list of the 44 most hazardous coal ash sites that will KILL YOU in the name of industry and job creation.
Coal ash, a product of burning coal, is kept in liquid or a slurry, in containment ponds or dams. The EPA lists more [...]
What? Just because the toilet water in that KFC bathroom is rain water run-off somehow offsets the vast, fossil-fuel dependent distribution system required to transport millions of unsustainably harvested mutant chickens to your thrice-stapled American stomach?
A KFC/Taco Bell co-branded store in Northampton, Mass., has been awarded LEED Gold certification, according to Yum Brands.
Leadership in Energy [...]
Looks like if Rubbertown isn’t burning, it’s smoldering. From the indubitable James Bruggers, via The C-J, wherein the American Synthetic Rubber Co. pays a paltry fine for pumping sulfur dioxide into the lungs of area residents:
Air district officials said the plant, located in Rubbertown on Camp Ground Road, violated terms of a permit that governs [...]
So you may have heard about this (fatal and tragic) ammonia leak at the American Cold Storage building. Although we’re eager to know just how it started, the fact that the ACS distribution center, which is essentially one gigantic chemical freezer, is located a heartbeat away from homes, businesses, and the University of Louisville Belknap [...]
Looks like that feisty liberal President of ours has seen fit to reverse yet another Bush-era practice: Incompetence fraud corruption idiocy dumping mountaintop-removal mining wastes into nearby tributaries. [The Courier-Journal]
We know that many of you will hate him for this because you somehow believe coal is integral to the commonwealth’s “economic success,” but we also [...]
