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Free market perspective already dominates the climate policy debate

This blog was written by John D. Wilson, former Deputy Director for Regulatory Policy at the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.

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Cleaner Air (may still be) Coming to a State Near You

This blog was written by Jennifer Rennicks, former Senior Director of Policy & Communications at the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.

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FERC: EPA Rules Will Not Disrupt US Electric Reliability

Congressional supporters of dirty coal are running out of options. The coal-power industry is under pressure to finally clean up its act and efforts to argue that coal power is clean are…

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Kingston Coal Ash Trial Underway

This week marks the beginning of a federal trial resulting from the 2008 Kingston coal ash disaster. That environmental catastrophe resulted in 5.4 million cubic yards of toxic coal ash being dumped…

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Obama Must Stand With EPA On Climate Policy

President Obama recently announced the cancellation of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to update weak and scientifically unsupported Bush-era ozone standards. The President based this unfortunate decision on the newly popular idea…

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Tr-Ash Talk: State of Failure

The following is a re-post of a piece originally published here and written by Raviya Ismail of Earthjustice. This post reports on the failure of states to properly regulate coal ash and…

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New Coal Ash Bill Undermines Health, Environment and Public Process

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is still working to develop a program for safely handling coal ash, the industrial waste that is left behind after coal is burned for energy production. Coal…

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New Rule Suggests EPA Is Caving Under Pressure (and so are the fish)

In the face of pressure from Congress and industry, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just proposed a new rule that fails to adequately safeguard the aquatic ecosystems, fish and water they…

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EPA Proposes New Mercury Rule

On March 16th, 2011 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a long-awaited rule to set national emission standards for mercury and other hazardous air pollution (HAPs) from coal-fired power plants. This rule…