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CoalSwarm
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CoalSwarm is an American environmentalist online project which focuses on sharing information about the coal industry. It is structured as a set of pages on the SourceWatch wiki. According to the San Francisco Chronicle in 2009, it has been an important player in the anti-coal movement. Its purpose is to "build a shared information resource on coal is an effort to create an informational tool on coal for students, journalists, activists, public officials, and the general public", according to a statement on its website. It was founded in 2008 by environmental activist Ted Nace. In March 2009, there were 1500 articles, and there were 2500 articles later that year, and over 4000 in December 2010. Origins Nace noticed that hundreds of grassroots groups were opposing coal, and they were working together "kind of as a swarm", and he figured a way to help was to create an "information clearinghouse". CoalSwarm includes articles on specific coal plants as well as on a variety of subjects pertaining to the anti-coal movement. CoalSwarm has received attention in left-leaning publications such as Socialist Worker as well as the online environmental journal Grist the journal Atlantic Free Press, and in the online blog by Joseph J. Romm entitled Climate Progress. Poet and activist Beth Wellington was affiliated with CoalSwarm, according to the British newspaper The Guardian. When CoalSwarm released a list of 126 coal-fired power plants which had 10,000 or more people living within a three-mile radius of each plant, and that a medical group cautioned about possible health effects, this finding was reported in Online Journal in 2009. CoalSwarm, as an organization, is a project of the Earth Island Institute. The CoalSwarm wiki is a joint project between CoalSwarm and the Center for Media and Democracy. Director Ted Nace writes regularly about anti-coal issues in publications such as the bimonthly Orion Magazine. CoalSwarm received a grant of $34,500 from the Mertz Gilmore Foundation in 2010. See Also
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