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No serious energy policy in sight

Posted on March 7th by Tom Yulsman. 2
Global warming debate in Congress almost seems like a sex addiction As oil prices rise, Rep. Ed Whitfield will hold hearings on global warming Here we go again . ...
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The Homer Simpson-John Riggins plan for energy independence

Posted on October 26th by Tom Yulsman. 4
Just as the prospects for solar energy are looking up, could the new Congress wind up promoting a new vision of "renewable" energy that includes nuclear power and even ...

Cap-and-trade hangover

Posted on May 21st by Tom Yulsman. 6
Two days ago, I drank the cap-and-trade Kool-Aid, spiked by a generous portion of climate modeling. I wrote that if the legislation likely to pass a House committee today ...

TVA dumping toxic coal ash in poor, black communities

Posted on May 14th by Tom Yulsman. %
First an environmental nightmare. Now an environmental justice outrage.   In December, 5.4 million cubic yards of coal ash laden with arsenic, lead and radioactive elements spilled from an impoundment at ...
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Running on Empty Redux

Posted on April 20th by Tom Yulsman. 2
  The Colorado River flows through eastern Utah near Moab. A new study suggests use of the river water is unsustainable. (Photo: Tom Yulsman)   John Fleck writes about a new study ...

James Hansen on civil disobedience against coal plants and other issues

Posted on April 17th by Tom Yulsman. %
Part 1 of an interview in which the NASA scientist discusses global warming, tipping points in the climate system, and climate policy   On April 10, freelance journalist  Susan Moran and ...

Three major developments on climate change today

Posted on March 10th by Tom Yulsman.
EPA gets ready to declare CO2 a danger to the public     This video portrays results from a new system for mapping CO2 emissions in the United States over time. In April, ...
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Open notebook: Tips for reporters on the coming climate wars

Posted on January 16th by Tom Yulsman. %
Editor’s note: This is the fifth installment in my open notebook project. (The previous posting was a Q&A with Roger Pielke, Jr.) As I mentioned in my first post, ...
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2008: the year global warming was “disproved”?

Posted on December 30th by Tom Yulsman.
Updated 12/31/08 with comments from James White, director of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research: Brace yourselves for that refrain from global warming skeptics as the new year begins. "Easily one ...

Tenn. GOP Chair to Republicans: acknowledge coal ash disaster

Posted on December 30th by Tom Yulsman.
Christian Granthan reports in his blog at Nashville is Talking that Tennessee GOP Chair Robin Smith is Twittering about the coal ash spill. In the Tweet Granthan turned ...
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EPA implies coal-ash-tainted river water safe to drink occasionally

Posted on December 29th by Tom Yulsman. %
A billion gallons of coal ash sludge fan out from the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant. (Photo: TVA)   A "very high" concentration of cancer-causing arsenic has been found ...
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The next coal ash spill?: New River, VA

Posted on December 28th by Tom Yulsman. 3
Water runs off into an unlined coal ash dump site along the New River in Virginia. The video is from Concerned Citizens of Giles County.   Nearly one week after the worse ...

Resident: TVA has “done nothing to address our issues”

Posted on December 27th by Tom Yulsman. 3
    The latest on the massive spill of coal ash in Tennessee, from an MSNBC video    As the size of the coal ash spill in Tennessee was being revised upward ...

Coal waste dumps: ticking toxic time bombs

Posted on December 26th by Tom Yulsman. 14
  A truly frightening video from ground zero of the coal ash catastrophe  The New York Times reports today that the coal sludge that surged out of a breached Tennessee ...

Coal sludge: top story in today’s N.Y. Times

Posted on December 25th by Tom Yulsman. %
At long last, the Grey Old Lady has spoken — and loudly — with a front page story that begins like this:   "KINGSTON, Tenn. — What may be the nation's ...