Word: coal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Administration wants to green-light the drilling of more than 35,000 new methane wells in the basin by November. But environmentalists, along with local ranchers, are waging a fierce fight against the project. In the past, green groups have endorsed methane as a cleaner-burning alternative to coal and oil. But to get to the methane in the basin, drilling companies will have to unleash torrents of water from underground aquifers--up to 20,000 gal. per day per well--which could deplete the region's water reserves and, because much of the underground water has a high salt...
...initiative confirms the suspicions one should rightly have about the environmental and energy policies of the Bush administration. For instance, many are unaware that the plan—which proudly boasts of a cap to noxious sulfur dioxide emissions—actually rolls back previous restrictions on coal-fired power plants. Moreover, the supposed cap is estimated by environmental groups to be too high to make any meaningful difference and acts instead as a smoke screen to protect heavy polluters. And if this meaningless cap were not enough to reject the “Clean Skies” initiative, there...
...degree to which Earth’s atmosphere influences climate. When you were entering middle school, scientific consensus told us that recent change in global climate was clearly discernable. When you were in high school, climate change was first definitively attributed to human activities, especially the combustion of coal...
...inclined to allow the use of public lands by corporations and sportsmen. The Administration plans to allow off-road vehicles back on 50,000 acres of the Imperial Sand Dunes, near San Diego. And later this month the Administration is likely to issue a rule clearing legal hurdles for coal mining companies, especially in Appalachia, to dump waste into streams after literally ripping the tops off of mountains...
...Bush really believes these plans are similar," says Sierra Club president Carl Pope, "then Arthur Andersen must be checking his math." The bottom line is that Cheney's plan calls for $33 billion in energy-industry subsidies, including $13 billion for the oil industry and $2 billion for coal. Documents released by the Energy Department reveal that environmental groups were given just 48 hours to make their case to Cheney's task force, while industry lobbyists were given dozens of meetings over several months...