Press Release

Blackout, Coal, Climate, and the Last Energy Crisis

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - May 28, 2009
Contact Desiree Cesarini, 707-823-8700
www.richardheinberg.com

"Blackout's" Dirty Little Secrets
Will Blow the Lid off Coal Debate

The heat is on the coal industry this summer as Congress and President Obama start getting serious about global warming. And Richard Heinberg has some dirty little secrets about coal that could blow the lid off the whole debate.

Richard Heinberg is an international speaker, author of nine books, and Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute in California. And the secrets he's talking about are all in his latest book, Blackout: Coal, Climate, and the Last Energy Crisis.

  • Dirty Little Secret #1: President Obama is banking on saving the climate with "clean coal"... but "clean coal" is a techno-fantasy that will waste precious time and cause more problems than it solves.
  • Dirty Little Secret #2: From Wall Street to Main Street, everyone thinks we have enough coal to power the country for hundreds of years... but new inventories show we'll actually start running out within 20 years.

Hear Heinberg spill all kinds of dirty little secrets about coal at:

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Waterkeeper Alliance
June 25th at 5:45pm
SUNY Maritime College, Vander Clute Hall
6 Pennyfield Ave, Bronx, NY
*invite only (press excepted)

or

Convergence on Zero: The Transition to Zero Emissions
June 26th, 10:00am
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Baird Auditorium
NW Constitution Ave, Washington, DC

Richard Heinberg is available for interviews while in the New York City and Washington D.C. areas. He has appeared on Good Morning America, The History Channel, BBC Radio, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Al Jazeera English TV, National Public Radio, and many other media venues. He has also appeared in Leonardo DiCaprio's film "The 11th Hour" and many documentaries on energy and the environment. Visit www.richardheinberg.com for a complete bio.

Please contact Desiree Cesarini, Post Carbon Institute Communications Director, at 707-823-8700 or Desiree Cesarini for booking or for more information.

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