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About the film: DIRTY BUSINESS: "Clean Coal" and the Battle for Our Energy Future is a 90-minute documentary produced by the Center for Investigative Reporting that investigates the true cost of our dependence on coal for electricity in the age of climate change. It is the first major public media project to explain and demystify "clean coal" and to explore the extent to which increased energy efficiency and renewable energy sources such as wind and solar thermal power might make "clean coal" unnecessary and uneconomical. America burns more than a billion tons of coal a year-and coal-fired power plants are the single greatest source of the greenhouse gases. From West Virginia to China, the film reveals the true social and environmental costs of coal power and tells the stories of innovators pointing the way to an alternative energy future.
The film was written, produced and directed by Peter Bull and co-produced by Justin Weinstein, the team that produced the PBS FRONTLINE and CIR co-production, Hot Politics, about the politics of global warming. The narrator and editorial consultant on Dirty Business is Jeff Goodell, author of Big Coal, the Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future and contributing editor for Rolling Stone magazine (his latest article there being the one on Massey CEO Don Blankenship that some speculate helped lead to his resignation). Alex Gibney, producer/director of the 2008 Academy Award winning documentary, Taxi to the Dark Side, is consulting producer on DIRTY BUSINESS.
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