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Kudos to new UK Prime Minister David Cameron, who is proving he's willing to go further than his "special relationship" counterpart, President Obama, to combat climate change.

The carbon intensity of coal is so high that CCS technology will only slightly reduce emissions, the report authors say.

photo: Nick Ares via flickr

A new report by the Green Scissors Campaign details some $200 billion worth of yearly US government subsidies that the coalition says are "wasteful to taxpayers, harmful to the environment and bad for consumers."

A burning oil spill in the Niger Delta.

Mountaintop Removal Mining Site. Photo via the NY Times

Future of Mountaintop Removal Mining Hinges on Outcome
If any of you are familiar with my past postings on the topic, you'll already be aware of my general attitude towards the practice of mountaintop removal mining. To those who aren't, this should sum it up: It's an inexcusable abomination.

Photo via Mink Baby

With all of the jostling around the plans for energy reform, it can be hard to keep track of what exactly is going on: With the competing pieces of legislation, the Kerry-Lieberman bill on the wane, and mixed signals from the White House and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, energy reform has been in flux so long that the details can seem like a wash.

Mountaintop removal mine in Kentucky, photo: iLoveMountains.org via flickr.

One more item that probably would've made more headlines had there not been a gigantic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico (I know I missed it until now): As

One of the homes destroyed by the December 2008 Tennessee Valley Authority coal ash disaster in Harriman, Tenn. Photo by Lyndsay Moseley.

How would you like to live near a pile of toxic waste that, every time the wind blew, spread its particles into your neighborhood?

Photo courtesy of the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition and SouthWings.

While we watch the continuing BP oil disaster in the Gulf, there is another form of dirty, destructive, energy we need to break free from: Coal.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited a coal mine in Zonguldak before this month's deadly accident.