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Fossil Fuels’ Hidden Costs: $6 Million Per Life

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 [...]

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Wetter, Hotter American Summer

August 28, 2009 – 10:57 am

A new report released by The Nature Conservancy predicts that over the next 100 years, Kentucky’s average temperature is expected to rise 8.8 degrees, precipitation will increase by as much as 4.3 feet of rain per year, and we’re all going to DIE. This is all because of green house gases, by the way, which [...]

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Coal Ash = Death

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 [...]

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Mayoral ‘Go-Green’ Scheme Gets National Attention

July 27, 2009 – 4:55 pm

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 [...]

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Ammonia Leak Points Out the Obvious

May 13, 2009 – 8:19 pm

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 [...]

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Big victory for Big Coal

December 3, 2008 – 4:26 pm

The Bush administration, canary in the coal mine it’s been, has pushed through (and the EPA accepted) a new law allowing mountaintop removal mining debris to be dumped into streams and valleys. Read about it here and weep.

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Calls for Obama to be mindful of coal country

November 25, 2008 – 3:17 pm

Nearly 60 grassroots organizations and national groups have joined together to urge President-elect Barack Obama to think about communities affected by the coal industry when selecting appointees for key positions.
The groups are opposed to Obama appointing candidates who have called for decreased regulation under the Bush administration, noting that for the safety of those living [...]

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