...... dramatically lowered America's CO2 emissions. According to theU.S. Energy Information Administration, in 2006, a fifth of our electricity came from natural gas, while almost 50 percent came from coal. By 2012, natural gas had increased its share to 30 percent of our electricity. Coal's share dropped to 37 percent. The change was because of fracking: over that same period, shale gas ......

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...... as China's leaders confront growing anger about choking pollution, contaminated food, and water that is unsafe to drink. The statistics are staggering. China now burns 3.8 billion tons of coal each year, nearly as much as the rest of the world combined. In January, the smog over Beijing was so thick, it could be seen from space. China's CO2 emissions rose by 720 million tons in 2011 -- ......

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...... dehydration and malnutrition, but did not appear to have significant crushing injuries, doctors said. After being trapped for more than three days, nine miners are rescued from the Quecreek coal mine in Somerset, Pennsylvania, on July 28, 2002. They were caught in a 4-foot-high chamber 240 feet underground after breaching a wall separating their mine from an older, flooded shaft on July 24. ......

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...... at the University of Georgia. In other words, modern humans have never seen carbon dioxide in these proportions before. Scientists say it's apparent that human activity -- namely burning coal, oil and natural gas -- has been driving a rapid rise of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide changes climate and drives acidification of the ocean. "Once emitted, it ......

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...... (CNN) -- A coal mine explosion in China's southwestern Sichuan province killed 28 miners, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported. A total of 108 miners were working underground when the gas explosion occurred near the city of Luzhou on Saturday, Xinhua said, citing provincial work safety officials. Late Saturday night, rescuers had saved 81 miners, but 27 others were confirmed dead. On ......

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...... at the University of Georgia. In other words, modern humans have never seen carbon dioxide in these proportions before. Scientists say it's apparent that human activity -- namely burning coal, oil and natural gas -- has been driving a rapid rise of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide changes climate and drives acidification of the ocean. "Once emitted, it remains ......

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...... tackle climate change, you will need lower oil consumption, and that will affect U.S. oil production. But that's a longer-term issue. On the renewable-energy front, natural gas is displacing coal rather than renewable power. It cuts emissions but does pose a risk to renewable-energy growth and the development of that technology. If we don't guard against that, we could find ourselves in 10 ......

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...... solar world. Net generation of power from solar more than doubled in the U.S. last year, according to the Energy Information Administration, but it remains a fraction of what is produced from coal or natural gas. About 83,000 homes installed photovoltaic systems in 2012 bringing the U.S total to roughly 300,000. But given that there are more than 100 million households in the U.S., the idea ......

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...... has turned into a major governance critic. In the past, mutual funds were the layabouts of the governance world, rarely taking an active role. The desire for dialogue can go both ways. Arch Coal (ACI), the second largest coal producer in the U.S., is taking advantage of shareholders' desire to communicate this year. Even after getting the SEC go-ahead, the New York Comptroller's office ......

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...... to charity -- his goal being 95%. Joe Craft, another of the pledgers, is one of many members of The Giving Pledge who grew up in impoverished areas -- in his case, Hazard, Kentucky. Then coal brought jobs to Appalachia, and he went on to form coal's first publicly traded master limited partnership, Alliance Resource Partners (ARLP). He says, "Basic tenets of American enterprise -- hard ......

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...... said. The findings were published online this week in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Science and Technology. Co-author Andrew Whitehead said the killifish is the "canary in the coal mine" for the Gulf Coast, where scientists are still trying to catalog the effects of the 2012 disaster. "They're the most abundant fish in these marshes," said Whitehead, a genome biologist at UC- ......

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...... to less than 1,000 mSv annually causes no meaningful increase in the risk of getting cancer. Husband of Fukushima suicide victim demands justice Smoking is much more likely to. And coal-fired power plants kill more people than their nuclear counterparts do, according to the Clean Air Task Force. Resulting air pollution was expected to cause nearly 13,200 deaths in 2010, not to ......

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...... from engaging in the abusive practices which AMD claims it resorted to in the past. Ruiz was born poor in Piedras Negras, a Mexican village across the Rio Grande from Eagle Pass, Texas. A coal-mining town, it drew its name from the "black rocks ... that had made a few lucky people rich," Ruiz writes.Ruiz's family was not among those lucky few, so his rise to become CEO of one of Silicon ......

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...... Duke are offering what might be their most disastrous bait and switch yet: natural gas. The bait? Burning natural gas is "clean" because it produces less carbon pollution than burning oil and coal. The switch? The catastrophic pollution caused when companies like Exxon fracture the earth -- commonly called fracking -- to get natural gas out of the ground. These corporations know America is ......

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...... There are more solar energy workers in Texas than there are ranchers. In California, they outnumber actors, and nationwide, America has more solar workers than coal miners. Those stats come from solar research group The Solar Foundation, which rolled out a map last week showing which states have the most solar jobs. Unsurprisingly, sunny states like California and Arizona are near the top of ......

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...... natural gas production in the U.S. will be a huge driver in improving air quality. A supply glut has dramatically reduced natural gas prices -- making it cheaper for power plants to burn than coal, and far cleaner. In 2012, for the first time ever, natural gas generated as much electricity as coal, and with energy production booming, this trend is likely to continue. As a state, ......

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...... whether they were caused by air pollution or not. Air pollution puts those with cardiovascular disease at a higher risk of health issues. 3. Ozone is created when a chemical or fossil fuel, like coal or gasoline, is partially burned and the unburned hydrocarbons, when combined with ultraviolet light, form a gas that is very corrosive to lungs. ......

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...... Cui Tiankai, the Chinese ambassador to the U.S., for visiting the injured student Zhou at Boston Medical Center on a day when 18 Chinese miners died and nine were injured in an explosion in a coal mine in Helong, Jilin Province. "The day when the dead and injured coal mine workers receive the same treatment," he wrote, "will be the day that shows the people's lives are equally respected." ......

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...... if we pursue all forms of energy. We've still have billions of barrels in Alaska that sit untapped. There are abundant reserves offshore in the lower 48." Murkoski is also a supporter of coal but thinks that we need the technology to create coal that is truly clean and "not just PR hype." She also supporters solar, wind and other renewables but believes that time has come to start ......

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...... There are more solar energy workers in Texas than there are ranchers. In California, they outnumber actors, and nationwide, America has more solar workers than coal miners. Those stats come from solar research group The Solar Foundation, which rolled out a map last week showing which states have the most solar jobs. Unsurprisingly, sunny states like California and Arizona are near the top of ......

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...... conservation education in their children's schools. Most men dismissed women's environmental concerns as sentimental and frivolous. The Chicago Record Herald reported that the God who made coal "knew that smoke would be a good thing for the world." Women like naturalist Ella Higginson fired back, charging that men were so obsessed with profit that they wanted to "tear down our forests, rip ......

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...... giant. This month's episode will focus on China's pollution problem. See here for air times for CNN's "On China." Hong Kong (CNN) -- China is literally choking on itself. It uses as much coal as the rest of the world combined. The Beijing smog in January was so thick it could be seen clearly in space. And, most shockingly, China's bad air is said to kill nearly 700,000 people a year. ......

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...... now flailing, Mr Brookes and others worry that national governments will increasingly introduce their own, competing climate policies, such as the UK's carbon price floor or the Dutch tax on coal. The result would be a hodgepodge of regulations that would inconvenience business and erode the notion of an EU climate policy. Commission officials insist that Mr Barroso is aware of this and ......

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...... remains divisive. Many Britons blame her for creating soaring unemployment, when she reduced or eliminated many government subsidies to businesses and took on unions. Her battle with striking coal miners won her few friends in mining communities in northern England and Wales. But supporters believe the tough reforms she pushed through transformed the British economy and gave many working ......

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...... "Anarchists Against Thatcher" and rainbow-hued "Peace" flags. Another held a sign demanding "Where was her respect for Goldthorpe and the miners?" referring to her campaign against the power of coal-mining unions, a move that all but closed the industry. Current Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron, who led mourners in Christopher Wren's masterpiece, earlier told a radio interviewer that ......

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...... remains divisive. Many Britons blame her for creating soaring unemployment, when she reduced or eliminated many government subsidies to businesses and took on unions. Her battle with striking coal miners won her few friends in mining communities in northern England and Wales. But supporters believe the tough reforms she pushed through transformed the British economy and gave many working ......

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...... now flailing, Mr Brookes and others worry that national governments will increasingly introduce their own, competing climate policies, such as the UK's carbon price floor or the Dutch tax on coal. The result would be a hodgepodge of regulations that would inconvenience business and erode the notion of an EU climate policy. Commission officials insist that Mr Barroso is aware of this and ......

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...... introduced by Thatcher. Protesters chanted "Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, dead, dead, dead." Workers also unfurled a "National Union of Mineworkers" banner, evoking memories of the painful yearlong coal miners' strike during the Thatcher years. In another indication of how divisive her legacy remains, a Facebook campaign to encourage people to buy the "Wizard of Oz" song "Ding Dong! The Witch is ......

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...... was a reference to Thatcher's controversial remark in 1987 that "there is no such thing as society." Workers unfurled a "National Union of Mineworkers" banner, evoking memories of the yearlong coal miners' strike during the Thatcher years. One person held a placard stating in part: "War-Monger Destroyer of British Industry. Architect of Casino-Capitalism." Others popped champagne. London' ......

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