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The US government has backtracked on the moratorium on new solar powered projects it announced less than 2 weeks ago.

A small, but symbolic victory against the Clean Coal marketing efforts.

Last week at the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) annual Asia Clean Energy Forum the ADB passed a motion to drop the use of the term "clean coal."

The world’s leading scientists issued another statement this week urging immediate action on climate change. The latest call to action was issued by the Science Academies of all the G8 nations, as well as China, India, Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa.

Avg Oil/Gas Money Per Vote

Yea (48) $54,948 Nay (36) $159,288

If you want to understand why America burns so much coal, spend a few minutes over at the lobbying disclosure website run by the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Here's a video of a family in West Virginia whose water well is about 3 miles from a coal waste slurry. Watch what happens when he puts a penny under the tap to his bath water. This coal is hardly clean.

Is your favorite camping and hiking spot in the top 10?

More than 1,700 of the nation's most prominent scientists and economists today released a joint statement calling on policymakers to require immediate, deep reductions in heat-trapping emissions that cause global warming.

"Clean coal" is not an actual invention, a physical thing – it is an advertising slogan. Like "fat-free donuts" or "interest-free loans," writes "Big Coal" author Jeff Goodell.

A well-researched list of reasons "clean coal" is not so clean.

Despite the massive amounts of scientific evidence showing humans are to blame for climate change, a new poll finds that only about half of Americans (47%) say the earth is warming because of human activity, such as the burning of fossil fuels.

Corporate apologists, politicians (and their media stooges) are twisting the language and misrepresenting the truth in an effort to deflect responsibility for a global food crisis that is being exacerbated by biofuel farm subsidies.

Seems that the idea that human activity is causing climate isn't new at all. The headline in the October 28, 1956 edition of the New York Times warns:

"WARMER CLIMATE ON THE EARTH MAY BE DUE TO MORE CARBON DIOXIDE IN THE AIR"

It is being reported that "hundreds of migrating birds are dying after landing on a tailings pond in northern Alberta owned by Syncrude," one of the largest players in the Alberta oil patch.

Environment officials said the birds are "clearly heavily oiled" and are not able to fly.

Dozens of scientists are demanding that their names be removed from a widely distributed Heartland Institute article entitled 500 Scientists with Documented Doubts of Man-Made Global Warming Scares.