Joshua Frank, a writer with AlterNet, spoke to our own Peter Bull about the release of the film Dirty Business. Read the original post here.
Coal powers America. But at what cost to the environment and human health? That's the question documentarian Peter Bull and the Center for Investigative Reporting attempt to tackle in the new documentary, Dirty Business: "Clean Coal" and the Battle for Our Energy Future.
This August DIRTY BUSINESS joined the debate over coal-fired electricity in Kansas. We held two screenings timed to coincide with a public comment and hearing process opened by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) about expansion of the Holcomb Station power plant in the western part of the state. Sunflower Electric Power Corporation has proposed to expand its existing 360 megawatt (MW) coal plant, built in 1983, to 895 MW, enough to meet the power needs of 448,000 households.
Dirty Business grew out of an earlier collaboration with the Center for Investigative Reporting: Hot Politics, a one-hour documentary about the politics of global warming for the PBS series FRONTLINE. That program, which I produced, NPR’s Deb Amos reported/narrated and Justin Weinstein field produced, looked back at the last three administrations and asked why the U.S.
