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What We Need: Moderation, Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Solutions

June 28, 2011 by Scott Edward Anderson
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On a late September morning I walked into the FOX Business studio in New York to sit down with host Stuart Varney and former EPA head Christine Todd Whitman. We were talking about why environmentalists seemed to be increasingly disgruntled as 2010 was coming to a close. "The environmentalists were disappointed they didn't get all they... [read more]

Coal Giant Massey Called Out for 12,000 Pollution Violations

January 15, 2010 by Tim Hurst
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Rail Yards at Danville, West Virginia, loaded with coal cars ready to be hauled from one of the largest transshipment points for coal in the world. (Photo: U.S. National Archives, 1974) Environmental groups to sue Massey Energy for ignoring thousands of violations of the Clean Water Act and surface mining laws. A coalition of... [read more]

My moral dilemma regarding hydrofracking

December 25, 2009 by John Blair
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Natural Gas markets have been volatile but low for the last year and a half. Just four months ago, gas bottomed out at $1.88/mmbtu and closed yesterday at just about 300% of that figure at $5.55 after nearing $6 last week. Of course that comes after prices peaking in July 08 at about $14 Issues concerning hydro fracking are beginning... [read more]

Miners Who Blow Up Mountains are Mad at Senator Alexander. Wonder if His 100 Nuclear Plants in 20 Years Goal is Part of the Reason?

July 26, 2009 by Rod Adams
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According to a July 26, 2009 article in the Washington Post titled Miners Boycott Tenn. Over Alexander's Bill: It Would Ban Mountaintop Removal, a group of coal miners from West Virginia have decided to quit visiting Dollywood and the Knoxville Zoo in an attempt to show their displeasure with Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN).... [read more]