Filling the coal-fired stove in Sugarloaf, PA; Laura Pedrick for the NYT

The New York Times covers the return of coal as a heating source in American houses.

Desmogblog brings us Rob Cottingham's cartoon, but cut his great headline, which we repeat above.

Traffic is a contributor to dirty air in Turkey's capital. Photograph by bddemir via flickr.

Photo Marshall Astor @ flickr.

This post is co-written by Greg Haegele and Bruce Nilles, Director of the Sierra Club's National Coal Campaign.

When we talk about coal-fired power plants, the discussion usually revolves around their massive emissions of global warming pollution. Yet these plants also emit many other toxic pollutants – including mercury.

Mystery Man Silences 500MW Turbine

This post points out the parallel risk of under-regulating the financial industry and undercutting established environment protections. You may not like it; but the analogy is apt. Both strategies have us headed over a cliff.

Norway has lots of reasons to back CCS - it already sequesters 1 million tons annually.