King Coal Getting…Coal for Christmas

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Despite the disappointments of the 2007 Energy Bill, the coal industry is getting some disappointments of its own this year. According to Bangkok-based NGO Palang Thai (via Grist), 12 US states have abandoned major coal expansion projects since September 2006, and in several cases have replaced them with wind projects. Apparently communities in Arizona, Florida, Kansas, Oklahoma, Kentucky, North Dakota, Texas, Illinois, North Carolina, Idaho, Washington and Colorado were willing to defy coal industry rhetoric and reject or alter their plans. Quite a turnaround from 2005, when the revitalization of the coal industry was being widely touted as the solution to the national energy crisis.


Posted on Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 at 4:40 pm | Tagged in Energy, Politics, Pollution | posted by Dina

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