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Canadian economists back carbon tax

2008-10-15T20:47:18Z

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Carbon tax would be offset with breaks on income tax

The Rainbow Warrior is coming to the UK

2008-10-15T20:49:20Z

She's our world famous flagship, she's helped to win Greenpeace campaigns across the globe and now she's coming to the UK to persuade Gordon Brown to Give Coal the Boot.

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A debate on clean coal- 2/2

2008-10-15T18:46:14Z

Can Coal Be Clean? A Debate Between Michael Brune of Rainforest Action Network and Joe Lucas of American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity

While John McCain and Barack Obama have painted clean coal as a panacea that will help solve the nations energy problem, many environmental and scientific groups have questioned whether the burning of coal can ever be clean. We host a debate between Rainforest Action Network director Michael Brune, author of the new book Coming Clean: Breaking Americas Addiction to Oil and Coal, and Joe Lucas of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity. [includes rush transcript]

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A debate on clean coal-1/2

2008-10-15T18:46:14Z

Can Coal Be Clean? A Debate Between Michael Brune of Rainforest Action Network and Joe Lucas of American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity

While John McCain and Barack Obama have painted clean coal as a panacea that will help solve the nationâ€™s energy problem, many environmental and scientific groups have questioned whether the burning of coal can ever be clean. We host a debate between Rainforest Action Network director Michael Brune, author of the new book Coming Clean: Breaking Americaâ€™s Addiction to Oil and Coal, and Joe Lucas of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity.

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John McCain: Roundtable 09/30/08

2008-10-10T10:50:02Z

John McCain
Roundtable
Des Moines, IA 09/30/08

TRANSCRIPT:
JOHN MCCAIN: Nuclear power isnt the only answer, but if youre concerned about climate change, which I have been for many years, it certainly reduces green house gas emissions. Theres another area thats important, and thats clean coal technology. Despite what may have been said by someone else, were going to have to continue to build coal fired plants. And what we need to do though, is improve and develop the technology, clean coal technology, so we dont continue polluting and continue to contribute to green house gas emissions, which threaten our very planet. So, as we achieve energy independence, we also will eliminate or reduce the cost of energy. Offshore drilling has to be done and we have to do it now, and it can be a bridge as we exploit enormous amounts of natural gas and oil deposits off of our coasts.

LABEL: JM IA 09-30-08 (RAD#8) G - ClipE - LS

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Mass cemetery highlights true cost of coal in Greece

2008-10-15T20:43:34Z

Greenpeace activists deployed 200 floating crosses to symbolise the threat to the already endangered Corinthian Gulf by a planned new coal fired power plant in the area. The protest around the Antikyra Bay village is part of the Quit Coal tour of the Mediterranean and Europe.

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Barack on Clean Coal in Virginia

2008-10-01T18:50:29Z

Barack Obama spoke in Lebanon, VA about the possibilities offered by clean coal technologies.

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Meet the Bloggers: McCain's Costly Environmental Flip-Flops

2008-10-15T20:51:35Z

While soaring gas prices and the energy crisis are major concerns for Americans, this economic debate is inextricably linked to the environment. How can we get our country off a crippling dependence on costly oil without considering environmentally safe energy alternatives? This was the topic of Friday's Meet the Bloggers, in which environmental journalist Simran Sethi spoke with show host Cenk Uygur about sustainability, as well as the battle between Big Oil and innovation.

Sethi addressed the urgent need to create a green economy, and she recommended tapping into the diversity of natural resources in our country. Sethi suggested that energy independence is possible if adequate measures are taken immediately, which is why the upcoming election is all the more crucial.

Friday's show came in conjunction with the launch of our video, McCain's Green Economy: Drill, Baby, Drill, which we partnered with the League of Conservation Voters to produce. As the title suggests, Drill, Baby, Drill reveals McCain's deep ties to Big Oil. Specifically, McCain has over 22 Big Oil lobbyists advising him, and he received over $1 million dollars from Big Oil for his recent flip-flop on off-shore drilling. But as Meet the Bloggers guests Kevin Grandia (DeSmogBlog.com), Brad Johnson (ThinkProgress.org) and Kate Sheppard (Grist.org) pointed out, McCain's abysmal environmental record goes far beyond his recent flip-flops.

Meet the Bloggers: Simran Sethi Has the Alternatives to Big Oil

2008-10-15T20:51:35Z

On Meet the Bloggers, environmental journalist Simran Sethi laid out all the green alternatives to oil drilling.

Meet the Bloggers airs Fridays at 1pm ET/10am PT. Catch all the episodes on http://meetthebloggers.org/

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Meet the Bloggers: Simran Sethi on Achieving Energy Independence

2008-10-15T20:51:35Z

On Meet the Bloggers, environmental journalist Simran Sethi explained how our country can achieve energy independence.

Meet the Bloggers airs Fridays at 1pm ET/10am PT. Catch all the episodes on meetthebloggers.org

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Meet the Bloggers: Simran Sethi on How to Fuel Our Cars

2008-10-15T20:51:35Z

On Meet the Bloggers, environmental journalist Simran Sethi laid out all the fuel alternatives our country needs to develop in order to get us off costly oil.

Meet the Bloggers airs Fridays at 1pm ET/10am PT. Catch all the episodes at http://meetthebloggers.org/

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Meet the Bloggers: Simran Sethi Calls for a Green Economy

2008-10-15T20:51:35Z

On Meet the Bloggers, environmental journalist Simran Sethi said we need to build a clean economy and tap into the diversity of natural resources in our country that can serve as alternatives to oil.

Meet the Bloggers airs Fridays at 1pm ET/10am PT. Catch all the episodes at http://meetthebloggers.org/

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Sarah Palin: Energy Expert or Billy Madison?

2008-10-15T20:49:14Z

Sarah Palin was born a ramblin' woman.

http://www.airamerica.com

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Amrit's vlog from the Rainbow Warrior

2008-10-15T20:43:34Z

Amrit, a Greenpeace activist from India on board the Rainbow Warrior, talks about what they have been doing and why quitting coal is so important.

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Rebuilding the Economy with Green Collar Jobs

2008-10-15T20:42:09Z

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/energy

What are green collar jobs? What effect will green collar jobs have on the economy? And how can we promote green collar jobs? Center for American Progress Senior Fellow Bracken Hendricks answers these questions in the lastest installment of CAP's ASK THE EXPERT series.

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Hey NoVa! Do you know where your electricity comes from?

2008-10-15T20:31:34Z

At this critical point in time when our country stands to make dramatic decisions about out energy future we're asking if you know where you get your electricity from.

Northern Virginia has developed into the Silicon Valley of the east with high-tech jobs employing a well-educated workforce but this region still gets a great deal of it's electricity from one of the oldest, dirtiest sources.

Did you know that?

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John McCain: Rally 09/15/08

2008-09-24T14:48:56Z

John McCain
Town Hall
Orlando, FL 09/16/08

TRANSCRIPT:
QUESTIONER: I just want to get you on the record because I think you had mentioned it in the past but I'm not sure if you support the elimination of mountaintop removal mining . . . that's an ecological disaster, it can be done in more environmentally friendly ways so that it will keep the economy stable in the area . . . by still extracting the coal. So, do you support eliminating mountaintop removal mining . . . ?

JOHN MCCAIN: You know, I do and I'm happy to tell you that I've seen a dramatic improvement in the behavior of the coal companies. They are doing a much better job. Now, it's not perfect but it certainly is dramatically improved from what it was some years ago. As you also know, there's a payment that the coal companies make for every ton of coal they take out and that money is given back to the community . . . that's an important area of economic development in some of the lowest income parts of America. But I also want to get back to this clean coal technology for a second, my friends, she is right, we are sitting on the world's largest reserves of coal and we're going to build new plants the generate energy my friends . . . there's an increased demand for it. And it seems to me, it's going to be coal, which I believe will increase greenhouse gas emissions dramatically or it's going to be nuclear or it's going to be clean coal technology. I'm not free with your tax dollars but I want to invest money, $2 billion a year, in development of clean coal technology. We should be able to do it. You know, you get so tired of hearing people say, you can't do nuclear, you can't do clean coal technology, you can't do this, you can't develop solar, we can, we can. We can do it. [applause] And so, I put . . . this emphasis on clean coal techonology because were going to have to use coal. We dont have any choice because were going to, theres going to be a demand for energy my friends, theres going to be a demand for it, were going to have to expand our electric grid, were going to have to do all of those things as see the growing demands for energy and coal has got to be part of it if were going to achieve the independence from foreign oil . . . by the way, Im sure you noticed, in the last week or so, OPEC has announced that theyre going to reduce the worlds oil supply. Why? So they can squeeze more out of us. Now, now, if theres ever an argument, if theres ever an argument for us to become energy independent, they just articulated it again. And I wont go into and bother you with what I think the Russians are doing because its very clear that they are using oil and natural gas as a weapon . . . I take back the word weapon, as a means of influencing other nations. And they, and one of the things that happened in Georgia, as you know, besides their aggression there is the fact that theres an oil pipeline that goes through Georgia, into Turkey, from Azerbaijan that . . . is the only pipeline, essentially, that is not controlled by Russia. So, it, this is a big deal . . . weve got to develop alternate energy but clean coal has to be one of them.

LABEL: JM FL 09-15 (LR#5) GE - ClipG - LS

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Quit Coal Tour

2008-10-15T20:43:34Z

Introduction from our International Climate and Energy campaigner Agnes.
www.greenpeace.org/quitcoal

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the case against coal-fired power stations

2008-10-15T20:49:20Z

A short introduction as to why the proposed new generation of coal-fired power stations in the UK would be a disaster for the climate, and the actions Greenpeace has been taking to convince the government to abandon its reckless plans.

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T Boone Pickens at National Clean Energy Summit, Las Vegas

2008-10-15T20:42:10Z

http://www.cleanenergysummit.org/video/video.html
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/energy

T Boone Pickens addresses the National Clean Energy Summit an event that produced an ambitious yet attainable outline for the future of clean energy in America and throughout the world.

Nevada Senator Harry Reid, UNLV, and the Center for American Progress Action Fund partnered to host the summit. Bringing together leaders in government, business, science, labor, and research, the summit convened with the goal of developing a set of guiding principles to deliver to the upcoming national political conventions.

View video footage from the event, including President William Jefferson Clinton's opening remarks, on the National Clean Energy Summit website -- link above.

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Israeli police react to peaceful action by Greenpeace

2008-10-15T20:43:34Z

Greenpeace activists painted "Quit Coal" on a cargo ship importing coal into Israel - before being arrested by police at the launch of a four month Mediterranean and European ship tour.

14 Greenpeace activists were arrested along with captain of the Rainbow Warrior. Currently, our ship is encouraging the region to "Quit Coal Save the Climate."

http://www.greenpeace.org/quitcoal

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Clean Coal Girls at the RNC

2008-10-15T20:45:11Z

I asked the clean coal girls handing out t-shirts and buttons to RNC delegates a little bit about clean coal.

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Robert Kennedy, Jr: No Clean Coal

2008-09-08T08:46:44Z

Robert Kennedy, Jr. says coal is dirty and destructive in every aspect of its production and burning.

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Inside USA: America's Real Black Gold (Part 2)

2008-08-15T11:02:56Z

This week, Inside USA travels to the coal mines of Illinois to look at America's dependence on coal, and the politics behind the fossil fuel. Just below the surface of this election campaign runs a deep seam of coal. Half of America's electricity is generated by coal, producing 40 percent of the country's greenhouse gases. Leading climate scientists have called for a moratorium on new coal-fired power plants, saying that addressing global warming means addressing America's dependence on coal.

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Inside USA: America's Real Black Gold

2008-08-15T15:09:44Z

Watch part 2 of this special here.

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