A new study just released by ACCCE demonstrates that the coal industry and clean coal technologies could provide many thousands of new jobs for American workers. This would be a huge boon to the economy as we rebuild our way out of the recession.

The deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies at advanced coal facilities would create or support more than 150,000 jobs nationally, according to a study released today by the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE). The study done for ACCCE by BBC Research & Consulting found that 1.7 million job years1 of labor would be created through the construction of 124 new advanced coal facilities by 2025.

Depending on which scale or measurement is being used, the UKs carbon dioxide emissions are much better or much worse than their Kyoto requirements.

Some sources (as well as opposition members in Parlaiment) are saying that the numbers the British Government are using to track its carbon dioxide emissions ignore entire sectors of the economy. They claim that when those sectors carbon dioxide emissions are added onto the UKs total emissions the optimistic reports of Brits having surpassed their Kyoto requirements are not quite accurate.

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As many as 2,000 Kentucky miners rallied at the state capital yesterday to protest a bill aimed at stopping a mining technique known as "mountaintop removal." If passed, thousands of miners could be put out of work and the economic well-being of the area could be severely impacted.

This WKYT.com report provides a short description and video of the miner’s actions.

Kudos to the miners for standing up for their way of lives and for defending the mining industry’s proactive actions to reclaim mine sites as wel as its provision of thousands of jobs and economic stability to the area.

A just released report by the Business & Media Institute, titled "Global
Warming Censored: Networks Stifle Debate, Rely on Politicians, Rock Stars and Men-on-the-Street for Science", indicates clearly that major media outlets have unfairly weighted their climate change-related coverage in favor of the view that humans are the primary cause of climate change and that anthropogenic climate change will have profound and irreversible negative impacts on the Earth’s environment.

Report authors reviewed over 200 media stories published in 2007 and found that so-called skeptical opinions were admitted in only 20 percent of the reporting. Additionally, when those opinions were referred to, they were typically tarred with pejorative terms like, "deniers" and "cynics."

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In a short December 18, 07 article, Popular Mechanics reviews the technology and promise of the FutureGen plant that is now set to be built in Matoon, IL.

The town of Mattoon beat out three other finalists as the site for the FutureGen coal gasification plan, which aims to convert coal into hydrogen and electricity while capturing and storing the carbon dioxide 3000 ft. underground. The U.S. Department of Energy hopes the $1.5 billion plant will generate 275 megawatts of electricity and power 150,000 homes, and be nearly free of greenhouse gas emissions.