Journalists covering coal (A-K)

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Christina Aanestad

San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center

• "Activists Target Wall Street 7 to Stop Funding Coal," April 16, 2007

Halimah Abdullah

Lexington Herald-Ledger, habdullah AT mcclatchydc.com

• "Kentucky seeks new liquid fuel," April 29, 2008

Jonathan Amos

BBC News, Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET AT bbc.co.uk

• "Climate outcome 'hangs on coal'", December 18, 2008

Jackie Ayres

Register-Herald, jayres AT register-herald.com

• "Coal waste sludge ponds — how safe are they?, December 30, 2008

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Ronald Bailey

Reasononline, bailey AT reason.com

• "Coal Will Still Be King: But can capturing and storing make it climate friendly?" January 20, 2009

Jeffrey Ball

Wall Street Journal, jeffrey.ball AT wsj.com

• "Wall Street Shows Skepticism Over Coal," February 4, 2008

Tony Bartelme

Charleston Post and Courier, tbartelme AT gmail.com

• "Young Activists Fired Up in Fight Against Coal," November 19, 2008

Aman Batheja

Star-Telegram, abatheja AT star-telegram.com

• "Bill would offer tax credits to promote clean coal plants in Texas," January 19, 2009

Joe Bauman

Deseret News, bau AT desnews.com

• Utah power plant in the spotlight," September 21, 2007

Anna Baxter

WSAZ (West Virginia), anna.baxter AT wsaz.com

• "University of Charleston to Host Coal Forum," November 19, 2009

Perry Beeman

Des Moines Register, 515-284-8538, pbeeman AT dmreg.com

• "Proposal for Waterloo coal plant is scrapped," January 7, 2009
• "NASA official raps coal-fired plant," January 10, 2008

Scott Beveridge

Observer-Reporter, sbeveridge AT observer-reporter.com

• "Group plans to sue over coal ash," September 13, 2009

Terry Bibo

Journal Star, tbibo AT pjstar.com

• "Illinois coal plants are being threatened with lawsuit," July 29, 2009

Jeff Biggers

Huffington Post, jrbiggers AT gmail.com

• Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Hearthland, Nation Books, 2010
• The United States of Appalachia, CounterPoint, 2005

John Reid Blackwell

Richmond Times-Dispatch, jblackwell AT timesdispatch.com

• "Rate rise tied to coal plant," February 6, 2009

Dustin Bleizeffer

Casper Star Tribune, 307-577-6069, dustin.bleizeffer AT casperstartribune.net

• "Coal lobby suggests tax breaks," November 18, 2008
• "When dust control doesn't work," January 13, 2008
• "Wyo coal hits another record," January 6, 2008
• "Will Wyo's electrical export ambitions go up in smoke?," December 16, 2007

Ben Block

Worldwatch Institute, bblock AT worldwatch.org

• "Climate Protests Escalate Worldwide," November 20, 2008

Nancy Bompey

Asheville Citizen-Times, 828-232-6003, NBompey AT CITIZEN-TIMES.com

• "Environmental advocacy groups to boycott proposed power plant," January 6, 2008

Seth Borenstein

Associated Press,

• "Obama left with little time to curb global warming," December 14, 2008

Chris Bowman

Sacramento Bee, 916-321-1069, cbowman AT sacbee.com

Ryan Brinks

Times Republican (Iowa), 641-753-6611, rbrinks AT timesrepublican.com

• "Alternatives to coal plant argued," January 11, 2008

Drew Brooks

The Star (NC), drewbrooks AT shelbystar.com

• "Plant progress delayed: Duke Energy awaiting state permit," December 29, 2007

Matthew Brown

Associated Press, Billings, Montana, 406-896-1528, mbrown AT ap.org

• "Candyman curbs big coal," January 9, 2008
• "Amid Election, Coal Takes the Offensive" February 27, 2008

Jim Bruggers

The Louisville Courier Journal, 502-582-4645, jbruggers AT courier-journal.com

• "A quarry quandary: Cleaner coal means more mining in Meade County," August 17, 2009
• "Renewable power, conservation head list," January 6, 2008

Jeff Burnside

WTVJ Special Projects Unit, 954-622-6192, jburnside AT sej.org

• "Jeff Burnside: No Reporting About Global Warming on TV in Maine," November 1, 2006

Anne Butterfield

Daily Camera, annefarr45 AT comcast.net

• "'Clean coal': Are we Betting on the Wrong Horse?," October 28, 2007

• "Butterfield: Free Market or Caste System?," January 13, 2008

• "Butterfield: Clash of the Titans: Hegemony v. Efficiency," February 10, 2008

• "Butterfield: It's Great to be in Love, Just Keep Your Eyes Open," June 1, 2008

• "Butterfield: Wagons Firmly Circled," March 26, 2009

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Dina Cappiello

Associated Press, 202-641-9446, DCappiello AT ap.org

• "EPA backs rule easing mountaintop mining waste disposal," December 2, 2008

John Carey

BusinessWeek, john_carey AT businessweek.com

• "Obama's Cap-and-Trade Plan," March 5, 2009

Bob Carmichael

USA Today, 703-854-8349, bcarmich AT usatoday.com

• Opposition takes on coal plantsOctober 29, 2007

Brendan M. Case

Dallas Morning News, bcase AT dallasnews.com

• "Inside trades alleged in TXU deal," March 9, 2007

Davide Castelvecchi

Science News, castel AT nasw.org

• "Clean coal for cars has a dirty side," October 20, 2008

Miro Cernetig

Vancouver Sun, mcernetig AT png.canwest.com

• "Province announces major 'green' initiatives in Throne Speech," 2/13/07

John Cheves

Lexington Herald-Leader

• "Taxes help promote mining: Coal industry gets $400,000 a year," 5/15/08

Mark Clayton

Christian Science Monitor

• "The Candidates on Energy: Hot Topic, Diverse Views," December 3, 2007
• “Pace of Coal-Power Boom Slackens”, October 25, 2007
• “Coal in Cars: Great Fuel or Climate Foe?,” March 2, 2007

Robert Collier

San Francisco Chronicle, rcollier AT sfchronicle.com

• California Says No to Coal, But World Disagrees

Thomas Content

Journal Sentinel, thomascontent AT journalsentinel.com

• "Oak Creek coal plant settlement uncertain," November 27, 2009
• "Alliant Moves On From Coal, But to What?," March 5, 2009

Warren Cornwall

Seattle Times, 206-464-2311, wcornwall AT seattletimes.com

• "Power-plant plan rejected; fails to meet emissions law," November 28, 2007
• “Power plant would bury greenhouse gas,” July 5, 2007

Jonathan B. Cox

The News & Observer, 919-836-4948, jonathan.cox AT newsobserver.com.

• "Rethink coal plant, critics urge," April 24, 2007

Robert Cullen

Atlantic Monthly

• "The True Cost of Coal," December 1993

H.J. Cummins

Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 612-673-4671, hcummins AT startribune.com

• "The End of Coal," 5/18/08

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Mike Dennison

The Montana Standard

• "Board rejects CO2 regulations for proposed coal-fired power plant," January 12, 2008
• "Concerns throw state coal plans into limbo," January 6, 2008

Shaila Dewan

New York Times

• "At Plant in Coal Ash Spill, Toxic Deposits by the Ton," December 29, 2008

Marc Munroe Dion

The Herald News, mdion AT heraldnews.com

• "Somerset's NRG power plant closing down," November 4, 2009
• "Group: Patrick's stance will halt NRG Energy's Somerset plant," December 18, 2009

Catherine Dodge

Bloomberg.com, Cdodge1 AT bloomberg.net

• "Obama’s EPA Raises Objections to South Dakota Coal Power Plant," 1/23/09

Andrew Donoghue

BusinessGreen, businessgreen.press AT incisivemedia.com

• "Coal giant sees future in biomass," October 23, 2008.
• "Top 10 sources of pollution named and shamed," October 22, 2008.
• "Greenpeace calls for North Sea wind grid," September 4, 2008.

Lauren Donovan

Bismarck Tribune, lauren AT westriv.com

• "Economic pinwheels spinning in Oliver," June 25, 2008

Peter Downs

freelancer with Illinois Times, pdowns AT speakeasy.net

• "Addicted to coal," (article about Illinois coal politics), April 17, 2008

Alexander Duncan

Platts, alexander_duncan AT platts.com

• "Reid Says Coal Is 'Ruining the World' January 28, 2008

Kathy Durbin

The Columbian, 360-735-4523, kathie.durbin AT columbian.com

• "Sierra Club Organizes Effort to Close Coal Fired Plant in Centralia," The Columbian, April 25, 2010

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Richard Ecke

Great Falls Tribune, recke AT greatfallstribune.com, 406-791-1467 or 800-438-6600

• "Loss of federal loan fails to derail four other coal-fired power plants," 10/19/08

John G. Edwards

Las Vegas Review-Journal, 702-383-0420, jedwards AT reviewjournal.com

• "Ausra opens solar assembly plant in Las Vegas," January 2, 2008
• "Reid getting tougher on coal," December 7, 2007, with Steven Tetreault

Jim Efstathiou Jr.

Bloomberg, jefstathiou AT bloomberg.net

• "Mayfly May Thwart $3 Billion in Coal Mined in U.S. Mountaintops," November 13, 2009

David Eggert

Associated Press, deggert AT ap.org

• "New coal-fired power plants generate opposition," April 14, 2008
• "Mich. House panel OK's energy plan," January 24, 2008
• "Granholm touts energy that's green," April 27, 2008

Mark Engler

engler AT democracyuprising.com

• "Climate Disobedience," Mother Jones, Salon.com, August 11, 2009
• "The Climate Justice Movement Breaks Through," Yes! Magazine, December 1, 2009

Steve Everly

Kansas City Star, severly AT kcstar.com

• "Kansas City Power & Light's new coal plant is behind schedule," January 13, 2010

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Peter Fairley

Carbon-Nation, Technology Review, IEEE Spectrum, web AT fairley.ca or pfairley AT sej.org

• "Dispelling Carbon Capture's Scaling Myth," January 7, 2009
• "Gorilla in the Greenhouse Meets the Coal Machine," December 18, 2008
• "Zero Tolerance for Carbon-Dioxide Emissions: A Canadian government decides that coal plants must clean up their act," February 28, 2007

David A. Fahrenthold

Washington Post Email form

• "Environmental Protections Take Hit in Fiscal Crunch," Washington Post, January 26, 2009
• "EPA Eases Emissions Regulations for New Power Plants," Washington Post, December 19, 2008
• "EPA Abruptly Backs Away From Proposals to Alter Air-Pollution Rules," Washington Post, December 11, 2008

Lowell Feld

raisingkain.com, lowell AT raisingkaine.com

• "Dueling Energy Plans for Virginia?", Raising Kaine, September 12, 2007

Mike Fitts

Charleston Regional Business Journal, mfitts AT scbiznews.com

• "DHEC approves permit for coal-fired electric plant," February 12, 2009

Mike Forsythe

Kansas City Post

• "You'll have your coal plant, and like it!" November 5, 2007

Joshua Frank

CounterPunch, Truthout.org, Alternet.org, brickburner AT gmail.com

• "The Myth of Clean Coal," Feb. 13-15, 2009
• "Will Oregon Close the State's Only Coal-Fired Power Plant?," Oct. 28, 2009
• "Big Greens Criticized for Climate Compromise" Dec. 8, 2009
• "Montana's 'Clean Coal' Governor's Climate Change Blunder" Dec. 31, 2009
• "CO2 Trade War Hits Midwest" Jan. 10, 2010
• "Will You Be a Victim of Killer Coal?" Jan. 21, 2010

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Kate Galbraith

New York Times, kate_galbraith AT harvard.edu

• "EPA Decision Signals Trouble for Coal," November 14, 2008

Kent Garber

US News and World Report, kent.garber AT gmail.com

• "Why Clean Coal Is Years Away," March 17, 2009

Peter Gartrell

Energy Reporter Gillette News-Record, 307-682-9306 x211, pgartrell AT gillettenewsrecord.net

• "Legistlator: Greenhouse gases must be managed," January 8, 2008
• "The News-Record's annual coal report," January 6, 2008

Dan Gearino

Columbus Dispatch, dgearino AT dispatch.com

• "AEP given OK to raise rates in Ohio, but about half what it asked," March 18, 2009

Kim Geiger

LA Times, kim.geiger AT latimes.com

• "EPA commits to set air pollution rules by 2011," October 24, 2009

Keith Goetzman

Utne Reader, kgoetzman AT utne.com

• "Telling the Story of Mountaintop Removal," July 9, 2009

Russell Gold

Wall Street Journal, russell.gold AT wsj.com

• "Natural gas tilts at windmills in power feud," March 2, 2010

Jeff Goodell

Rolling Stone, jeffgoodell AT yahoo.com

• Big Coal's Dirty Move January 12, 2007

Mike Gorrell

Salt Lake Tribune, mikeg AT sltrib.com

• "Keeping Coal in the Spotlight," March 1, 2008

Nick Gorski

C-Ville, editor AT c-ville.com or news AT c-ville.com

• "Cleaning up the Plant in Our Backyard," C-ville, February 19, 2008

Matt Gouras

Associated Press, Helena, Montana, 406-449-5542, mgouras AT ap.org

• "Amid Election, Coal Takes the Offensive" February 27, 2008

Elwin Green

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, egreen AT post-gazette.com

• "Burning out: Coal prices come back to earth" February 18, 2009

Deirdre Gregg

Puget Sound Business Journal, 206-447-8505 x114, dgregg AT bizjournals.com

• “Storing CO2 in Rocks May Make Cleaner Power Plants,” September 7, 2007

Marc Gunther

Fortune, mgunther AT fortunemail.com

• "TXU Faces a Texas Coal Rush," February 19, 2007

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Tyler Hamilton

Toronto Star, thamilt AT thestar.ca

• "Natural Gas May Boom By Default," February 8, 2009
• "OPG sees 27% fall in coal emissions," January 23, 2009

Scott Harper

Virginia-Pilot, scott.harper AT pilotonline.com

• "Report: Coal plant would add 'harmful' amount of mercury to Chesapeake Bay," October 14, 2009

Andrew M. Harris

Bloomberg, aharris16 AT bloomberg.net

• "Duke Energy Ordered to Shut Indiana Coal-Fired Units," May 29, 2009

Mark Havnes

Salt Lake Tribune, mhavnes AT sltrib.com

• "Environmental groups move to stop strip mine," November 20, 2009

Tom Healy

Branches/Nuvo (Indianapolis), 800-352-2817, apple AT branches.com

• "The Toxic State of Indiana," December 12, 2007

Bruce Henderson

Charlotte Observer, bhenderson AT charlotteobserver.com

• "Speakers oppose rate hike, coal-fired plant," September 10, 2009
• "Coal ash scrutiny returns," January 2, 2009

Cheryl Hogue

Chemical & Engineering News, 202-872-4551, chogue AT sej.org

• "Coal Tar-based Pavement Sealers Implicated as a Source of Urban Water Pollution," February 19, 2007

Don Hopey

Pittsburgh Post Gazette, 412-263-1983, dhopey AT sej.org

• "W. Va. study unearths higher health risks in coal mining communities," April 2, 2008

Chris Hubbich

LaCrosse Tribune (Wisconsin), chubbuch AT lacrossetribune.com

• "Beyond coal ... winners and losers: Local utilities support efforts to reduce greenhouse gases but differ on how to do it fairly," November 22, 2009

Siobhan Hughes

Dow Jones Newswire, 202-862-6654, siobhan.hughes AT dowjones.com

• "DOE's Chu: Administration Moving Ahead With 'Clean Coal' Technology," March 5, 2009

Spencer Hunt

The Columbus Dispatch, shunt AT dispatch.com

• "Utility contends its project qualifies as "advanced energy" effort because facility would use new type of scrubber," February 23, 2009
• "'Clean coal' plants hitting snags: Higher construction costs, global warming are hurdles," January 11, 2008
• "Energy companies plug coal's 'clean' benefits," March 31, 2008

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Elaine Jarvik

Deseret News, jarvik AT desnews.com

• "Group of moms fired up to cut Utah air pollution," January 6, 2008

Juliette Jowit

The Guardian (Manchester, U.K.)

• "Coal plans go up in smoke," September 3, 2008

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Jeff Kart

The Bay City Times (Michigan), jkart AT bc-times.com

• "Environmental groups forecast end of coal projects," November 19, 2008
• "Officials: Power plants still a go despite economy," November 19, 2008

Bob Kelleher

Minnesota Public Radio, bkelleher AT mpr.org

• "Judges report delivers a blow to proposed Iron Range power plant," April 13, 2007

Sarah Kessinger

Harris News Service

• "Sunflower considers Missouri plant an option," January 13, 2008

Michael T. Klare

The Nation, mklare AT hampshire.edu

• "Obama's Energy Challenge," November 10, 2008

David Klepper

Kansas City Star, dklepper AT kcstar.com

• "Coal-plant decision fires up critics," May 11, 2009
• "Kansas Senate OKs Bill for Coal Plants," March 5, 2009

Edward Klump

Bloomberg.com, eklump AT bloomberg.net

• "Redford Takes on 'Goliath' in Texas"

Alison Knezevich

Charleston Gazette, alisonk AT wvgazette.com

• "W.Va. House resolution supports Coal River wind farm," April 2, 2009

Chris Knight

Express-Times, cknight AT express-times.com

• "Environmental group says Slate Belt coal-ash dump inadequately protecting against groundwater contamination," May 11, 2009

Bill Kovarik

Radford University, 540-831-6033, wkovarik AT radford.edu

• "Buffalo Creek Remembered," February 2007

Clifford Krauss

New York Times, krauss AT nytimes.com

• "An Export In Solid Supply", March 19, 2008

Kristen Kridel

Chicago Tribune, kkridel AT tribune.com

• Illinois Lands Clean Coal Plant December 18, 2007

Jens Manuel Krogstad

wcfcourier.com, jens.krogstad AT wcfcourier.com

• "Board calls for coal plant moratorium" January 16, 2008