Articles by Joe Smyth
Joe Smyth is a media officer with Greenpeace.
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Why would Kiewit want the risk of an expanded coal mine?
That’s the question at the heart of a letter sent today to the CEO of Kiewit and the President of its mining subsidiary as this major construction company considers whether […]
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BLM schedules two major coal leases, undermining President Obama’s climate action plan
Next week, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) plans to sell 148 million tons of publicly owned coal, making clear that BLM continues to ignore concerns about the carbon pollution […]
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Youth Climate Activists Deliver a Memo to Interior Secretary Jewell: #ActOnClimate, Keep Our Coal in the Ground
Department of Interior staff were greeted during their lunch break today by youth climate activists distributing memos from a made-up government agency, the “Department of Climate Action,” to highlight that the federal […]
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Coal industry flails around for a new PR strategy
Last week I looked at the coal industry’s failed PR efforts, which even Luke Popovich, the head of the National Mining Association, admits has not worked: “Anyway, ‘war on coal’ […]
