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Peoria Welcomes Electric Transit Buses ElBae & Friends

CleanTechnica EVs

By Alyssa Brown & Selena Kyle This is the fifth in a series of blogs celebrating the grant projects funded through our Clean Air Act settlement with the owners of the E.D. Edwards coal-fired power plant outside Peoria, Illinois. Originally published by NRDC.

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Shouldn’t We ALL Be Going to PowerShift 2009?

Creative Greenius

I know I should be there contributing, blogging and shooting pictures, marching and lobbying and networking with my green brothers and sisters in arms. I can’t understand why there aren’t rings of young people blocking bulldozers and preventing them from constructing coal-fired power plants.” - Al Gore.

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Thankful To Be Home — And ALIVE!

Creative Greenius

Jesus, it’s not about your stupid blog.” ” “Wait – you’re saying you actually read my blog?” It’s not the oil, coal and gas companies or the Koch brothers or Fox News. ” Hayduke yelled at me. “BFD! Get over yourself. ” I was floored. I wondered if they ever quoted me.

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GM awarded two EPA ENERGY STAR Partner of Year awards

Green Car Congress

Eliminated the use of coal at Wentzville, Mo., Specifically, the EPA recognized these communications initiatives: Published energy and climate-related posts on its environmental blog, making up more than half of the editorial content in 2014. Collaborated with utility companies on energy projects and funding. assembly plants.

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The world’s only coal-to-nuclear reactor plant just broke ground in Wyoming

Baua Electric

It’s being constructed near the retiring coal-fired Naughton power plant and is the world’s only coal-to-nuclear project under development. TerraPower, which will employ between 200 and 250 people at the Natrium facility, wants to hire the 110 former coal workers to tap into their transferrable skills. Get started here.

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Top Climate Scientist on Lessons Not Learned from Electric Car Debacle

Plugs and Cars

There are some lessons we need to learn as we are inundated with adverts about "clean coal," if we are not to get snookered as enviros did over the electric car. Read the full email at Joe Romm's blog Climate Progress. From his post at NASA he warned Congress and us what's up with global warming long ago.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. Are we going to burn more oil, natural gas, or (gasp) coal to produce it? Cheers — Al Louard 11. railways replacing cars and trucks, weatherizing homes, etc.),

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