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Hip Hop Clean Energy Now! Tour Begins | Rethinking Coal
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Hip Hop Clean Energy Now! Tour Begins February 19, 2010. The Hip Hop Clean Energy Now! Kicked off in New Orleans on Thursday afternoon as part of a five-state swing that will look to strengthen the voices of young people and communities of color calling for a future with clean energy. Over the course of the next week Consequence youth partners will team up with Hip Hop Caucus, Repower America. While some may be puzzled by the thought of bringing two very different demographics together, Mann says, it’s c...
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Why Is Coal So Bad? | Rethinking Coal
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Why Is Coal So Bad? March 5, 2010. Coal itself looks pretty harmless, mainly like a big, black rock you wouldn’t want in your Christmas stocking. Why, then, is burning this particular resource so bad? What is so horrible that environmentalists have spent decades trying to close a single factory, Oregon’s own Boardman Coal Plant? As it turns out, this little rock packs quite the punch, both environmentally and economically speaking. With such a poisonous price tag, is this cheap, reliable energy source wo...
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From Announcement to Action: Why Boardman Can’t Fall Off People’s Radar | Rethinking Coal
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From Announcement to Action: Why Boardman Can’t Fall Off People’s Radar February 12, 2010. In the month since Portland General Electric (PGE) announced its plan to close the Boardman Coal Plant by 2020. A brief skim of PGE’s website. Think necessary to move forward on this option. Now what in the world does that mean? For one thing if people who lobbied to close Boardman in the first place stop fighting, Oregon’s only coal plant could continue to pump out pollution for decades to come. As recently as Sep...
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Presentation | Rethinking Coal
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Presentation March 8, 2010. If you want to check out our presentation check it out here. Leave a Comment ». Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out. Gateway 3 Noon Lab.
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Oregon’s Ozone Overhaul: Will the Future of Boardman be Biofuel? | Rethinking Coal
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Oregon’s Ozone Overhaul: Will the Future of Boardman be Biofuel? February 5, 2010. In early January 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency. EPA) announced in PDF its Proposed Plan to Strengthen Smog Standards. Requiring that stricter laws be placed on the amount of ozone emitted into the air. Three public hearings took place this week to gain input of the plan, which seemed to receive an overall positive response from environmental organizations. Earlier this year. Though a biofuel-powered plant e...
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Coal and the Conflicting Future | Rethinking Coal
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Coal and the Conflicting Future January 15, 2010. During his January 8. Earlier this week, President Obama awarded $2.3 billion in tax credits to clean energy manufacturing projects throughout the U.S. under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The plan also generated 183 projects to be established in 43 states and create tens of thousands of clean energy jobs. Building a robust clean energy sector is how we will create the jobs of the future, said President Obama. Department of Environmental Qual...
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The Emerald Catches On to Coal | Rethinking Coal
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The Emerald Catches On to Coal March 2, 2010. Check out this article. Published in today’s. Leave a Comment ». Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out. Gateway 3 Noon Lab.
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Coal in Review, Where It’s Headed Next | Rethinking Coal
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Coal in Review, Where It’s Headed Next March 10, 2010. By: Lucas Clark, Jenny Klein, and Beth Kramer. It’s been more than two months since we began exploring the dangerous effects of coal-powered energy plants such as Portland General Electric’s (PGE) Boardman Coal plant. Located 150 miles east of Portland. During that time we’ve seen youth from all over the country step up to the call and help fight for clean energy in their respective communities. Boardman has been the top contributor to Oregon’s pollu...
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Citations for Video and Magazine Layout | Rethinking Coal
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Citations for Video and Magazine Layout March 6, 2010. We’d like to give credit for all the great sites that helped make our video for class awesome. Diamonds – http:/ upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Diamonds.jpg. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves screenshot – http:/ commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snow white 1937 trailer screenshot %282%29.jpg. Boardman Coal Plant – http:/ upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Boardman Oregon coal plant pano1.jpg. Http:/ www.wavsource.com/. You are comm...
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I am a sophomore journalism major at the University of Oregon (UO), with a focus on news/editorial. I’ve been working for the Oregon Daily Emerald. As a sports reporter for the past couple years and am interested in learning more about the news side of journalism with this Gateway III project. OSPIRG) at the UO, which is how I originally became interested in the Beyond Coal Campaign. And this year I’ve recently started as an Associate Editor for the campus magazine, Ethos. Leave a Comment ». It's Ge...