Welcome!
Welcome to CoalSwarm, the shared information tool on issues such as coal plants, mines, companies, environmental impacts, clean alternatives, regulation, grassroots organizing, industry lobbying, and much more. Articles include:
- State-by-state information on coal in the United States (or click on the map below)
- International information on coal
- Africa: Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, other
- East and Southeast Asia: Burma, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Korea, Mongolia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, other
- Europe: Europe and coal, Germany, Poland, Russia, United Kingdom, other
- North and South America: Canada, Colombia, Mexico, United States, Venezuela, other
- Oceania: Australia, New Zealand, other
- South Asia and the Middle East: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Turkey, other
- Additional topics
Anyone can add to the resources provided here: videos of actions, sample testimony, the latest on particular coal plant proposals, information on alternatives to coal, news of upcoming events, and much more.
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Citizen activism on coal
External articles
- "Swarming the Climate Catastrophe," Justice Rising, August 2008
- Judith Siers-Poisson, "Introducing the CoalSwarm," PR Watch, 3/21/08
- "The Anti-Coal Movement's SF Nerve Center," SFgate.com 3/13/09
- Rachel Barge, "Media Savvy Youth are Blogging Coal to Death," SolveClimate, March 31, 2009
- Mark Engler, "Climate Disobedience," Mother Jones, Salon.com, August 11, 2009
- Mark Engler, "The Climate Justice Movement Breaks Through," Yes! Magazine, December 1, 2009
- Ted Nace, "Ready to Rumble," Earth Island Journal, Summer 2010
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Coal-related companies, agencies, and lobbying groups
Coal lobby
Coal project financing and construction
Electric power
Coal mining
Synfuels
Transportation
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Coal and power industry data
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Carbon capture and storage
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Economics and subsidies
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The problem with coal
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Environmental, health, and safety issues
Coal mines
Coal plants
General impacts
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Legislation / Regulation / Judicial decisions
Judicial decisions
Statutes
Proposed legislation
Regulations
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Alternatives to coal
" CoalSwarm is a great example of a loose community united by a common cause developing a shared resource to do their collective work better." [1] --Advocacy 2.0
For the more academic activist, look to CoalSwarm, the one-stop-shop wiki for all the dirt you need on coal. Coal Swarm is an effort to create transparent, group-source information about the coal industry: tracking plant announcements, political maneuvers, lawsuits and more. As one supporter explained: “It’s putting information once the province of lobbyists into local activist’s hands.”[2] --SolveClimate
"What began as a few local ripples of resistance to coal-fired power is quickly evolving into a national tidal wave of grassroots opposition from environmental, health, farm, and community organizations and a fast-growing number of state governments. The public at large is turning against coal."[3] --Lester Brown, President, Earth Policy Institute
"In a few years, the backlash against coal power in America has become the country's biggest-ever environmental campaign, transforming the nation's awareness of climate change and inspiring political leaders to take firmer action after years of doubt and delay. Plants have been defeated in at least 30 of the 50 states, uniting those with already strong environmental records, such as California, with more conservative areas, such as the southern and central states."[4] --Manchester Guardian
- ↑ "Coal Swarm," Advocacy 2.0, accessed June 2008
- ↑ Rachel Barge, "Media Savvy Youth are Blogging Coal to Death," SolveClimate, March 31, 2009
- ↑ Lester Brown, "U.S. Moving Toward Ban on New Coal-Fired Power Plants," Earth Policy Institute, February 14, 2008
- ↑ Juliette Jowit, "Coal plans go up in smoke," Manchester Guardian, September 3, 2008
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