The Sierra Club and its clean energy allies in Nevada won twin victories when two proposed coal plants in the state were scrapped in the last month. On February 9, a three-year Sierra Club campaign concluded successfully when NV Energy called off plans to construct the Ely En...

BMI's Dan Gainor has a great column on the Fox Forum about the silence around "global cooling." This is the winter of environmentalists’ discontent. They desperately want the earth to be warming to prove Al Gore’s truth inviolate and they are going to make you pay thousands of dollars ...

Sorry to go literary on you. I believe the term is poetic justice. I recently suggested giving every Clean Coal Congress critter a pail and sand shovel, a one-way ticket to Roane County and no health coverage, and elsewhere commented on what a mockery our “elected” representatives were m...

Image: Google After 3 Times It's Officially a Trend, Right? Good thing that the EPA is getting more serious about keeping an eye on coal ash, because it sure doesn't seem like the current system is working. Just in the past few months we reported two big spills: 2.6 Million Cubic Yards of Toxic Coal...

And it’s headed for DC. ThinkProgress: According to the Maryland Department of the Environment, approximately 4,000 gallons of toxic coal ash has spilled into the North Branch of the Potomac River in Luke, MD. A “dime sizedâ€� hole developed in the pipeline on March 8, but was not discovered...

According to the Maryland Department of the Environment, approximately 4,000 gallons of toxic coal ash has spilled into the North Branch of the Potomac River in Luke, MD. A “dime sized” hole developed in the pipeline on March 8, but was not discovered until the next morning. Pete Altman ...

The Sierra Club's Iowa Chapter is cheering last week's Alliant Energy decision to cancel its planned coal-fired power plant in Marshalltown. The decision comes after months of hard work from chapter staff, volunteers and a whole coalition of organizations committed to bringing clean energy t...

Gay and Lesbian Medical Association Healthcare Equality Index - “a joint project of GLMA and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. The HEI provides a quality indicator for healthcare related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, beginning with the hospital industry. The survey foc...

You know the WV Quarter? Nice mountain... be a shame if something happened to it.......

Filed under: Site Announcements, Reality-Free The folks at our sister site Cinematical are working hard to give you news and reviews of the best -- and worst -- the silver screen has to offer. Here are some of their musings on the latest blockbusters, indies, and everything in between: I'm glad I'm ...