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Another coal plant bites the dust 1
Posted 1 day, 17 hours ago Minnesota and South Dakota residents stopped a coal-fired power plant project and prevented about 4.7 million tons of CO2, or the equivalent of the pollution from roughly 670,000 cars, from entering the atmosphere every year.
Coal River Mountain: destruction stops here

Blowing up our clean energy future 1
Posted 3 days, 2 hours ago Right now, Coal River Mountain represents the best and worst our country has to offer. It is one of the most dangerous examples of blasting for dirty coal and one of the most profound examples of hope that exist in our country. It is a crossroads.
tallying toxic threats

Congressional watchdog issues update on coal ash regulation efforts 0
Posted 3 days, 11 hours ago The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency still does not know the exact number of coal ash dumps at the nation's power plants, but it's moving ahead with plans to regulate them.
back to the future, as plunder of Appalachia continues

Interior will consider mountaintop removal rule in 2011? 0
Posted 5 days, 12 hours 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.
Worth 1,000 words, and several degrees Centigrade

A scary photo for Halloween 1
Posted 1 week ago Even back in 1891, they knew what was coming.
things that go pumpkin the night

The most frightening story this Halloween is ... pumpkintop removal 1
Posted 1 week, 1 day ago I want to draw attention to one of the gravest -- but least publicized -- environmental crimes of our times. It is one of brutal violence, utter waste, and total disregard for the earth's resources. Yes, I'm referring to ... pumpkintop removal.
Blasting begins on Coal River Mountain

The True Impact of Coal Mining 0
Posted 1 week, 1 day ago
Coal River Mountain protests spread across the nation 1
Posted 1 week, 1 day 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.
LEED COAL CERTIFIED

University of Kentucky dorm renamed Wildcat Coal Lodge despite student protests 0
Posted 1 week, 2 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.
video shows Google Earth tools in mountaintop removal campaign

Google Earth salutes Appalachian heroes 0
Posted 1 week, 4 days 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.
8 arrested at deadly Fisk Coal-Fired Plant

How green is Chicago? 0
Posted 1 week, 4 days 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.
The hidden cost of coal 1
Posted 1 week, 4 days ago Based on Clark Williams-Derry's awesome powers of multiplication, and a quick trip to the U.S. Energy Information Administration website, these numbers suggest that the "hidden" costs of coal fired power in 2005 were roughly twice as high as the cost of the coal itself.
Open Letter from a Coal River resident

Dear Mr. President: We face a national security threat on Coal River Mountain 1
Posted 1 week, 5 days ago I write to you in a moment of urgency. In your address at MIT last week, you told students that the “Pentagon has declared our dependence on fossil fuels to be a security threat.” Here in the Coal River Valley of West Virginia, our mountain communities face a security threat that calls for immediate federal intervention.
Join the Green Jobs Vs. Big Coal Showdown

Battle at Coal River Mountain explodes 1
Posted 1 week, 6 days 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.
Mountains look best with their tops on

Coal River Mountain, a symbol of hope, is slated for destruction 37
Posted 2 weeks ago Mountaintop removal mining is starting on an iconic peak in West Virginia, which has tons of potential for wind energy. A wind farm versus a mountaintop removal coal mine -- there could be no better symbol for the crossroads of America’s energy future. Whichever way it goes, the fate of Coal River Mountain is America’s energy future.
Watch a movie, fight mountaintop mining

Host a viewing party for the must-see new film “Coal Country” 2
Posted 2 weeks, 2 days ago The powerful new documentary “Coal Country” exposes the devastating effects of mountaintop-removal coal mining. See the movie before the general public does by offering to host a viewing party in your home.
Climate cover-up

Blockbuster new book exposes anatomy of denial 0
Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago James Hoggan and his DeSmogBlog.com posse might be our nation's most important sleuths -- and they ain't even from the United States.
The enemy of the human wallet

Report finds massive hidden energy costs, mostly from coal 5
Posted 2 weeks, 4 days ago A new report from the National Research Council on the "hidden costs of energy" is, frankly, stunning. In a sane world, it would be headline news.
Historic game changer

Will EPA veto or regulate the plunder of Appalachia? 1
Posted 2 weeks, 5 days ago In a historic move, Lisa Jackson's EPA threw down the gauntlet on mountaintop removal mining last Friday -- after they had just compromised on another massively destructive mountaintop removal operation.
Will Manchin Defend Coalfield Residents or Absentee Big Coal?

Coalfield uprising leads to arrests at W.Va. gov’s office 6
Posted 2 weeks, 5 days ago As a supportive crowd sang, "This land is your land, this land is my land," seven peaceful sit-in activists were arrested in Governor Joe Manchin's office at the West Virginia state capitol Monday evening. The act of civil disobedience was made in protest of current mountaintop removal coal mining practices.