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Energy Company Reveals Plan to Power Northwest with Dirty Coal for Next 20 Years
2013-05-31 18:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Yesterday, Puget Sound Energy (PSE) released its final Integrated Resource Plan that maintains the Northwest regions reliance on coal for another generation. PSE is the largest owner of the outdated, dirty coal plant in Colstrip, MT, and generates about 30 percent of its electricity from the plant and other increasingly-expensive coal sources. Calling on PSE to invest in clean energy solutions as well as Washington communities, the Sierra Club and community partners barged an inflatable coal...
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Stalling on a Burning Planet: World's Energy as Dirty as it Was 20 Years Ago
2013-04-17 18:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Common Dreams: The world's lack of progress on low-carbon energy should be "a wake-up call" to avoid a path towards catastrophic global warming, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in a grim assessment on Wednesday. Despite much talk by world leaders, and despite a boom in renewable energy over the last decade, the average unit of energy produced today is basically as dirty as it was 20 years ago, stated IEA Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven. IEA gave its sobering findings in its annual report...
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