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Greenpeace Calls on Major Companies to Reduce Reliance on Coal and Chris Hedges Speaks Out Against Wall Street Arrogance
07/19/12 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Thursday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: coal, Christine Lin, Chris Hedges, Powell's Books, Goldman Sachs, On Coal River, the could
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up today we'll look at two issues. We'll talk first with Greenpeace's Christine Lin about the showing of a film called On Coal River tonight at Sacred Grounds in Tampa. Greenpeace is trying to pressure large companies such as Apple and Microsoft to switch from coal-generated electricity to more sustainable forms of energy.
Later we'll listen to a talk...
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06/15/12 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: coal ash, EarthJustice, coal, EPA, Bill Nelson
One byproduct of burning coal for electricity is coal ash. Last week we aired an interview with Lisa Evans, senior legislative counsel at EarthJustice about the potential dangers of coal ash storage in Florida. In this second half, she talks about how coal ash is -- or isn't -- regulated on the federal an...
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06/05/12 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: coal ash, EarthJustice, coal
Most electricity produced in Florida comes from burning coal. In addition to the carbon dioxide and particulate air pollution one byproduct is what’s called coal ash. Often it’s stored in landfills or disposal ponds. But the environmental and legal organization EarthJustice has documented seven cases of coal ash contamination of water in Florida. Lisa Evans is senior legislative counsel at EarthJustice and spoke abo...
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02/27/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Greenpeace, Rainbow Warrior, environment, environmental activist, Progress Energy, coal, mercury
A brand new ship built for Greenpeace with sustainability in mind stopped off in St. Petersburg this weekend. The crew of the Rainbow Warrior III is on their maiden voyage to Rio de Janeiro to combat environmental crimes like illegal timber harvesting in the Amazon. But during their stay at the Port of St. Petersburg, Greenpeace spokesperson David Pomerantz welco...
Be the first to commentEnvironmentalists protest Pam Bondi for joining a suit to block EPA mercury rule listen
12/13/11 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Pam Bondi, environment, mercury, clean coal, Sierra Club, coal
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has joined 24 other states in a lawsuit that would block an Environmental Protection Agency rule to reduce mercury air pollution. But a group of advocates gathered in front of Bondi’s Tampa office today to ask her to drop that suit. The Sierra Club’s Phil Compton is concerned ...
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08/24/11 Josh HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Smog, EPA, Sierra Club, public health, air pollution, pollution, regulations, coal, Oil, gasoline
Environmentalists rallied for clean air this morning in downtown Tampa. Their demand for less smog goes hand in hand with their call for reducing the rising rates of asthma in children.
About twenty protesters gathered around the base of a giant inflatable hand in Gaslight Park. The hand was holding an asthma inhaler, which for the activists represents the negative health effects of breathing in too much smog from fossil...
Be the first to commentTwo activists tree-sit to oppose mountaintop removal coal mining in WV listen
07/20/11 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: mountaintop removal, coal, West Virginia, Energy, environment, tree-sit
Two activists in West Virginia are using a risky tactic to try to stop a mountaintop removal coal mining operation. Becks Kolins and Catherine-Ann MacDougal are sitting on platforms in trees about 80 feet above the ground within 100 yards of active blasting from a mine on Coal River Mountain. Charles Suggs is a former Tampa Bay resident and is a volunteer with the RAMPS Campaign.
Suggs adds that Alpha Natural Resources is blasting dangerously close to a sludge ...
Be the first to commentFlorida's Reliance On Coal Is Expensive
05/19/10 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Wednesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: coal, clean coal, mercury, Union of Concerned Scientists, Stve Clemmer
A new report from an energy watchdog group says Florida utilities now spend more than a billon dollars a year importing coal from other states.
The report, from the [Union of Concerned Scientists](http://www.ucs.org, says Florida is one of 38 states considered to be a net importer of coal. Report co-author Steve Clemmer says the state is also now one of just 11 spending more than a billion dollars a year importing the fossil fuel.
The report calls on Florida utilities to stop...
Be the first to commentTexas coal wars listen
01/28/10 Joshua Lee HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: coal, energy resources, environmental justice
Texas has some of the worst air pollution in the country, but some Texans have been working to change that. Last night a local church showed the documentary Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars. The film shows how politicians and CEOs joined faith based and community groups in opposing the construction of 19 power plants in Texas. Coal company TXU would have built 11 of those plants, but with pressure from the community groups, the company built only three.
There’s about 15 coal plants in ...
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11/24/09 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: climate change, pollution, coal, power plants, environment
A new report released today lists Florida as the third worst state for power plant pollution.
The report by Environment Florida is called “America’s Biggest Polluters: Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Power Plants in 2007.”
Sarah Bucci is an associate with Environment Florida.
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