by Jeff Biggers
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Don't Miss Climate Change Ground Zero Showdown
Copenhagen, U.S.A. December 7 2
Posted 2 days, 13 hours ago On Dec. 7, the opening day of the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Americans from around the country will converge for a historic protest at climate change ground zero for our nation -- the Appalachian coalfields. Read More -
Where's the Love?
Why won’t Lisa Jackson/Nancy Sutley visit a mountaintop removal site? 0
Posted 1 week, 1 day agoI think at the Obama administration we all believe that everybody has the right to live in a clean, healthy environment and a prosperous economy. And we're working towards that. We need to reach out to communities whose voices have been ignored and where there are disproportional impacts, whether it's environmental protection or promoting [a] clean energy economy. -- Nancy Sutley interview, July 31, 2009
Question of the week: Given all of their agencies' beautiful rhethoric about "reaching out to communities whose voices have been ignored and where there are disproportional impacts," why haven't EPA chief Lisa… Read More
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Child Labor, Coal Ash, Coal Slurry
Big Coal and child victims 0
Posted 1 week, 6 days ago Nov. 13 marks the 100th anniversary of the Cherry Mine Disaster in Illinois, when an estimated 259 coal miners lost their lives to fire and the buildup of "black damp" or toxic gases. While we take time to reflect on the heroic sacrifices of coal miners and their families this week, the Cherry Mine Disaster remains a haunting reminder of the secret legacy of child labor in our coal mines -- and its unconscionable use today. Read More -
country stars turn coal into platinum
Coal Country CD benefits anti-mountaintop removal groups 0
Posted 2 weeks, 1 day ago As a companion CD to the provocative new film, Coal Country, the wildly eclectic Coal Country Music CD hits the stores today with a blockbuster list of Nashville's alt-country scene like John Prine, Kathy Mattea, Jason and the Scorchers, folk and bluegrass legends Ralph Stanley, Jean Ritchie, Tom T. Hall and Gillian Welch, rockers like Natalie Merchant and Bonnie Raitt, and a few other surprises -- as in, Grammy Award-klezmer band The Klezmatics and their beautiful rendition of Woody Guthrie's "Heaven." Read More -
back to the future, as plunder of Appalachia continues
Interior will consider mountaintop removal rule in 2011? 0
Posted 3 weeks, 2 days ago While 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. Read More -
Coal River Mountain protests spread across the nation 1
Posted 3 weeks, 5 days ago As 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. Read More -
LEED COAL CERTIFIED
University of Kentucky dorm renamed Wildcat Coal Lodge despite student protests 0
Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago University 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. Read More -
video shows Google Earth tools in mountaintop removal campaign
Google Earth salutes Appalachian heroes 0
Posted 4 weeks, 1 day ago Google Earth just released a wonderful series of videos on citizens groups and environmental heroes who are using Google Earth tools in their campaigns. Read More -
8 arrested at deadly Fisk Coal-Fired Plant
How green is Chicago? 0
Posted 4 weeks, 1 day ago On 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. Read More -
Join the Green Jobs Vs. Big Coal Showdown
Battle at Coal River Mountain explodes 1
Posted 1 month ago An extremely organized and growing coalfield uprising movement against mountaintop removal has marked a line in the sand on Coal River Mountain as the ultimate battleground to stop mountaintop removal and launch President Obama's clean energy jobs program. Read More
