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In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.

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Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

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Even the biggest coal boosters have long admitted that coal is a dying industry - the fight has always been over how fast and how hard the industry will fall.

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Despite all the progress climate scientists have made in understanding the risks we run by loading the atmosphere with CO2, the world is still as addicted to fossil fuels as ever.

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Not since the days of George W. Bush's 'Clear Skies' and 'Healthy Forests' initiatives has America been presented with a project as cravenly corporate and backward-looking as the Keystone XL pipeline.

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The oil industry fought hard to keep Keystone alive, making wildly exaggerated claims that the pipeline - the country's largest infrastructure project - would create tens of thousands of jobs and decrease America's reliance on oil from the Middle East.

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Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.

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Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

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In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.

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Subsidies are hugely important; they represent America's de facto energy policy.

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Nationality: American

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