The Platform went to court with numerous cases
against the coal plant project's license, environmental regulation report, environmental impact assessment report.
He felt so strongly about it that he joined one of the peaceful
protests against coal mining and nearly got arrested.
At least since then she has taken a tougher
stand against coal, perhaps as a result of the backlash.
And aren't renewables interests and natural gas interests not rivals at all, but rather
allies against coal and nuclear?
They've likely never had to live in a community that has higher rates of asthma and respiratory sickness due to being nestled up
against a coal plant.
As proud leaders in the
fight against coal, we're working on dozens of court cases involving coal that say otherwise.
Sep 16: «减少煤炭污染 — 在中国 (
Campaigning Against Coal in China)», by Ailun Yang, Campaign Manager for Climate and Energy, Greenpeace China.
In December 2011, students at the University of Montana called for a week of
actions against coal in Missoula to occur in February 2012.
Apparently, when Jonathan Moylan and his fellow activists are not campaigning
against coal mines they are thinking about how to maximising their superannuation nest eggs.
The price of solar photovoltaic is at an all - time low, enough to
compete against coal for power generation.
Wrote and circulated a religious leader sign - on letter
against coal export which garnered 250 signatures of clergy and other key faith leaders in Washington.
Sept. 28, 2010, 1:29 p.m. Updated Jim Hansen, the NASA climate scientist who's become a leading front - line
campaigner against coal burning, has been arrested again, this time on Monday outside the White House.
For one, natural gas is beating out coal as the most economically viable fossil fuel for power generation in North America, and renewables — even when coupled with demand side management tools (e.g. battery storage, load response)-- are getting effective enough to compete
against coal for new power plant capacity around the world.
Please spread the word #decoalonise, and let us together demonstrate community resistance
against coal expansion in Africa!
Larry Gibson, who has held onto his family home on Kayford Mountain in West Virginia despite the total destruction of the mountain all around him, speaks out frequently
against the coal industry.
But surely in our research we discovered that the «environmental» protests in Ohio were as strong
against coal as they were against nuclear?
All of this is against the backdrop of an increasing grassroots
movement against coal, and scientific certainty and elite concerns about fossil fueled climate change.
James E. Hansen, the NASA climate scientist who has become an outspoken campaigner
against coal burning, was among 31 protesters arrested on charges of obstructing officers and impeding traffic during a protest against mountaintop mining.
Grassroots groups, such as ICKD (Iskenderun Environmental Protection Association), Adana CETKO (Environmental Protection Association), and East Mediterranean Environmental Platform have been
struggling against coal power plants, mines and other coal infrastructure to protect rights to live in a healthy environment has been going on since mid-90s.
The recent federal court ruling
against a coal lease in Colorado rejected the Bureau of Land Management's argument that quantifying the climate change impacts from leased coal is impossible, stating, «But a tool is and was available: the social cost of carbon protocol.»
The Sierra Club, who seem to be enemies of everything and anything, lost a round today in their
lawsuit against a coal plant in South Dakota.
I'm told there's to be a big
rally against coal seam gas, at the property «Brisbane Hill» tomorrow near Branxholme, between Hamilton and Macarthur.
The implication, he said, is any shift to natural gas must be accompanied by «well - crafted policies that assure it is
directed against coal but doesn't hinder the progress of solutions like renewables.»
The momentum behind divestment campaigns and other forms of protest
against coal highlight that burning fossil fuels without regard for the consequences will not be tolerated much longer.
To read about this inspiring movement see Climate Hope: On the Front Lines of the Fight
Against Coal by Ted Nace.
Critics will say that some of the market forces acting in favor of
gas against coal for EPG are market distortions brought to you by an overeager EPA — that the new air quality standards are unnecessary and if removed will level the playing field back toward coal.
Coal plant in Kosovo Meanwhile, for many other environmental groups, the fight at the World
Bank against coal isn't over.
If that number is significant, it could negate the climate benefit of natural gas —
measured against coal — unless the leaks are plugged.
«If you have lots of cheap natural gas available, ultimately it's not fighting
only against coal but renewables, too,» says Steven Davis, an energy scientist at the University of California, Irvine, and co-author of the study, published online today in Environmental Research Letters.
on A good federal court
decision against a coal mining expansion: There are no remedies for failure to consider climate change impacts
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