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The Coen Brothers Take on Dirty Clean Coal
Academy Award-winning directors Joel and Ethan Coen are taking on the oxymoron that is "clean coal." The brothers directed the spot for the Reality Campaign to "call out the coal industry on their dirty lies." The group wants to spread the message that "clean" coal is like a healthy cigarette, while also pointing out that no clean coal plant actually exists in the US.
Al Gore Calls For "Civil Disobedience" Against New Coal Plants
At the fourth annual Clinton Global Initiative kicked off yesterday in New York City, Al Gore made a perhaps inconvenient call to action: civil disobedience. Gore, surrounded by Queen Raina, Clinton, and Bono painted a grim planetary picture:This is a rout. We are losing badly.
Citizen Recap: 30 Days Working in a Coal Mine
Did you think I forgot to watch the season premiere of 30 Days, with all of Tuesday's Democratic nomination wrap up, and the accompanying speech mania? Well, don't worry, because even though this recap is a day late, I still caught the episode which had filmmaker Morgan Spurlock working under the earth's surface for 30 days as a West Virginian coal miner.
Morgan spent his 30 days living with 35-year veteran miner Dale Lusk and his wife Sandy.
Eco Paradox: Clean Air Bad for Rain Forest?
A new study claims that clean air may actually be worsening the drought in the Amazon rainforest — a region whose well being impacts the entire world's climate.
The scientists found that sun-reflective sulfate aerosols, released by coal-burning power plants, bounce light back to the sun, preventing it from hitting the Earth. Add a bunch of scientific mumbo-jumbo, and eventually the buffering impact of a concentrated amount of sulfates from the 1970s and 80s led to more rain in the Amazon.
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Coal tar (On the skin)
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Product of the Day: Singing Lump of Coal
Christmas music can drive me batsh*t insane, but I think I might let this little guy usher in the holidays. Apparently, Lumpy, the singing lump of coal "knows you've been bad and has a special little song just for you! Just clap your hands and listen to his little jingle as his mouth moves and he does a little dance!"
Free Healthcare Comes to Appalachia on Wheels
Each year the Remote Area Medical clinic provides free healthcare services to residents of Appalachia's coal mining counties, but people from as far as Indiana travel there for care. This region of the Eastern US is one of the nation's most impoverished, and this clinic-on-wheels wants to help the under- and uninsured.
Some of the 2,500 patients spend the night in their cars, hoping to see one of the 1,400 volunteer medical personnel.
Coal worker's pneumoconiosis
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Coal workers pneumoconiosis, complicated #2
Back HEALTH GUIDE REFERENCE FROM A.D.A.M This picture shows complicated coal workers pneumoconiosis. There are diffuse, massive light areas that run together in the upper and middle parts of both lungs. These are superimposed on a background of small and poorly distinguishable light areas that are diffuse and located in both lungs.Coal workers pneumoconiosis, complicated
Back HEALTH GUIDE REFERENCE FROM A.D.A.M This picture shows complicated coal workers pneumoconiosis. There are diffuse, small, light areas (3 to 5 mm) in all areas on both sides of the lungs. There are large light areas which run together with poorly defined borders in the upper areas on both sides of the lungs.
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