NY Time's Andy Revkin on the 'Allure of Clean Coal'

Fri, 2008-08-29 12:09Emily Murgatroyd
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NY Time's Andy Revkin on the 'Allure of Clean Coal'

On his NY Time's DotEarth blog, journalist Andy Revkin writes:

This enduring notion — that the world can have its coal and climate, too, by pumping the carbon dioxide from combustion into the earth — has been promoted by institutions including Peabody Energy, the world’s biggest coal company (see its coal-sales ticker here), and the Natural Resources Defense Council. A group that pushed the clean-coal theme at the Democratic convention, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, will be heading to the Republican convention next week. Environmentalists have attacked the group as the latest in a string of industry propaganda mills."

Thanks for the link to DeSmog Andy!

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global warming
climate change
clean coal
americas power
American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity
ACCCE

Comments

Mon, 2008-09-01 07:04 — Steven Earl Salmony

To behold such huge challenges to life as we know it and the integrity of Earth; and to see so many pathetic responses to them by politicians and government sinecurists, are abominable signs of a state of dangerous decay, one that is destroying the very heart and soul of political life.

Mon, 2008-09-01 18:05 — David B. Benson

Torrefied wood ought to work in any existing coal reactor; some is already being co-fired with coal.

Also, some, or any biochar, ought to sequestered deep undergraound.

Shame on NRDC of claiming so-called clean coal can ever be a solution.

Tue, 2008-09-02 09:00 — pat n

Shame on Obama for supporting Clean Coal in his acceptance speach last week.

Tue, 2008-09-02 10:02 — gary

For fighting any and every attempt to address polution while maintaining our current standard of living.

It is now all too obvious that environmentalists are not interested in any technological solutions to polution.

And does not even address the FACT that CO2 is NOT polution.

The only acceptable path for them is to enter into another dark age and pretend to be "one with the Earth".

Will we ever be rid of wide eyed innocent tree hugging eco fanatics?

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