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Southern boy don't need them around anyhow

Are the South and the Midwest splitting on energy? 2
Posted 4 months, 4 weeks ago
What you see in the Waxman-Markey House vote is the beginning of a dynamic I expect to accelerate in coming years: the divergence of the South (specifically coal-mining Appalachia) and the Midwest on energy politics.
94-year-old Ken Hechler, Daryl Hannah, James Hansen join coalfield residents

Live at Coal River—mass arrests against mountaintop removal 2
Posted 5 months ago
Ken Hechler, the legendary West Virginia congressman, was arrested in a non-violent protest with NASA's celebrated climate scientist James Hansen, actress Daryl Hannah, Michael Brune (executive director of Rainforest Action Network), and Goldman Prize winner Judy Bonds, and dozens of other coalfield residents after crossing onto the property of leading mountaintop removal coal mining company, Massey Energy.
Murder by breath

Goodbye to Cancer Valley: In remembrance of my friend John Soley 0
Posted 5 months ago
After a long struggle with cancer, my friend Mr. John Soley died at his home in Carbon County, Pa. on Saturday, June 20. He was only 62, which is too young to die of natural causes. But then, neither John nor I believe he got sick from natural causes. We believe he and many of his neighbors were poisoned by pollution, and that the perpetrators should be held to account.
Reckoning at Coal River

Will media and nation bear witness to coalfield tragedy this week? 2
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
A historic reckoning is taking place on Coal River in West Virginia this week -- and in Washington, DC, on Thursday.
Green Theatre: Taking Off Broadway Off Coal

An interview with playwright and director about bringing mountaintop-removal coal on stage 0
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago
Sarah Moon and Stephanie Pistello answer a few questions on their cutting-edge theatre collective and "Light Comes" play.
will West Virginian join Mitch McConnell and the rest of the world

Will Sen. Rockefeller Snub or Praise Goldman Prize Winner? 0
Posted 7 months ago
OVEC Organizer Wins Goldman

King coal takedown: Maria Gunnoe 2
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
Since 1997, when Gunnoe served as a volunteer on underground mine fires and air quality issues, the West Virginia and Cherokee native has been one of the most vocal advocates for justice in the Appalachian coalfields. Refusing to back down to numerous threats from King Coal thugs or leave her ancestral land, she has emerged as an inspiring heroine in the coalfields for the rest of the nation.
and let's put an end to dirty coal welfare

Van Jones: Talk to Eric Mathis About Green Jobs in Appalachia 0
Posted 8 months ago
Blast Rites

In coal country, mining is destroying cemeteries and faith 2
Posted 3 years, 3 months ago
Moving Mountains

Mountaintop-removal mining is devastating Appalachia, but residents are fighting back 10
Posted 3 years, 9 months ago
A Short Review of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson’s books offer environmental ethics with a light touch 1
Posted 4 years, 8 months ago
A Walk in the Woods, the venerable travel writer's best-selling 1998 account of hiking a portion of the Appalachian Trail, conjured memories of adventures I'd had as a kid in the forests where I grew up. Bryson seems to capture my dueling feelings about the woods: beautiful and inspiring from a distance -- "an America that millions of people scarcely know exists" -- yet disorienting and at times menacing from within. "[The] trees surround you, loom over you, press in from all sides," Bryson writes. "Woods choke off views and leave you muddled and without bearings. They make you feel small and confused and vulnerable, like a small child lost in a crowd of strange legs."
Coal Comfort

Coal Comfort 0
Posted 6 years, 6 months ago
Blowing His Top 0
Posted 7 years, 6 months ago