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• back to the future, as plunder of Appalachia continues

  Interior will consider mountaintop removal rule in 2011? 0

  Posted 6 days, 3 hours agoWhile anti-mountaintop removal protests spread across the nation, a legal representative for the Department of Interior filed the DOI's intention to consider a revision of the blatant Bush-era hijacking of the 25-year-old stream buffer zone rule, which was intended to stop mine waste from being dumped within a 100 feet of streams ... in 2011.

• Coal River Mountain protests spread across the nation 1

  Posted 1 week, 2 days agoAs millions of pounds of explosions rip across their mountain communities, scores of residents from the Appalachian coalfields have joined with supporters from across the country in a series of sit-ins, die-ins, protests, and a haunting "Day of the Dead" funeral procession and sit-in in the courtyard of the headquarters of the EPA.

• LEED COAL CERTIFIED

  University of Kentucky dorm renamed Wildcat Coal Lodge despite student protests 0

  Posted 1 week, 3 days agoUniversity of Kentucky President Lee T. Todd Jr. and several members of the UKY Board of Trustees refused to consider any formal student statements this week during their meeting to barter away the name of a Wildcat basketball dorm for Big Coal donations, and then fled to a back room as students made their testimonies.

• video shows Google Earth tools in mountaintop removal campaign

  Google Earth salutes Appalachian heroes 0

  Posted 1 week, 5 days agoGoogle Earth just released a wonderful series of videos on citizens groups and environmental heroes who are using Google Earth tools in their campaigns.

• 8 arrested at deadly Fisk Coal-Fired Plant

  How green is Chicago? 0

  Posted 1 week, 5 days agoOn the same streets in the Windy City, where a young liberal Democratic activist named Francis Peabody peddled "smoke-free clean coal" in the 1890s, an estimated 400 Chicago residents marched to the infamous Fisk Generating Station coal-fired plant for the Chicago 350 Climate Action.

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