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Coal's slipping grip: Death of a Georgia coal plant
2013-07-02 14:37:13| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: The smokestacks, more than 800 feet tall, barely peek from behind the tall pines just across from Chester Allen's farm, but to him the damage from Plant Yates' coal is plain to see. "Dang-near everything rusts out early over here," said Allen, as he walked with his dog, Bogey, past a rusty disc harrow on the farm where he's lived for more than thirty years. His drag, steel gates, fence posts, barn roof -- all rusted. Equipment this new -- 15 years old, he reckons -- shouldn't be this rusty. And...
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Coal's slipping grip on energy in the U.S
2013-07-01 19:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Nature Network: Tiffany Mellers jogs behind her two daughters as they pedal their bikes along a ribbon of packed sand along Long Island Sound. They are good girls, Mellers said. They deserve a healthy life. Behind them, a 500-foot tall candy-stripe smokestack, a fixture of Bridgeports waterfront for nearly five decades, rises in the distance. A third generation of residents is now growing up in its shadow. But today this old giant is merely a vestige of this regions coal-fired past. New England is virtually...
Chip Factory Blamed For Homes Slipping Into Sea
2013-01-24 00:35:06| Food - Topix.net
A housing estate inhabited largely by elderly residents is slipping off a cliff and into the North Sea because of a "river of fat" from the local chip factory, they claim.