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University of Kentucky dorm renamed Wildcat Coal Lodge despite student protests 0
Posted 4 weeks, 1 day 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 2
Posted 1 month 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 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.
Mountains look best with their tops on

Coal River Mountain, a symbol of hope, is slated for destruction 37
Posted 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month, 1 week 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 1 month, 1 week 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 1 month, 1 week 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 1 month, 1 week 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.
Shout Shout, Let It All Out

Mountaintop Removal Hearings Get Tense 2
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago
Shoutin' Down the Army Corps Hearing on Mountaintop Removal

Should the Department of Justice investigate Big Coal bedlam? 1
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago While their profits continue to soar amid job losses, Big Coal let loose the hounds of chaos and hatred at last night's Army Corps of Engineers public hearing in West Virginia on mountaintop removal permits.
The risky plan to dump coal ash in an old Tennessee mine 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago A company is pushing a plan to use dry coal ash from the Kingston plant to fill an abandoned coal mine in Tennessee -- but environmentalists are raising concerns about the proposal's health risks.
Brighter Planet Proposal for Sustainable Energy in Coal River Valley

Bring seeds to the coalfields: Vote for this clean energy project 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago Want to take on Big Coal with a couple clicks on your keyboard?
U.S. headed for massive decline in carbon emissions 4
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago For years now, many members of Congress have insisted that cutting carbon emissions was difficult, if not impossible. It is not. During the two years since 2007, carbon emissions have dropped 9 percent. While part of this drop is from the recession, part of it is also from efficiency gains and from replacing coal with natural gas, wind, solar, and geothermal energy.
Shoutin' Down the Army Corps Hearing on Mountaintop Removal

Should DOJ Investigate Big Coal Bedlam? 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
TOO COAL FOR SCHOOL

Dirty energy fuels college campuses 3
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago Many of us look back in disbelief at some of the things we did in college. We’re seeing that same sense of disbelief from current college students when they learn that their campuses are still powered by coal.
COALFIELD SOS

Senate must block OSMRE nominee Pizarchik 1
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago When the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources meets today, Oct. 8, the stakes over the crucial directorship of the embattled OSMRE, charged with enforcing the sweeping surface mining reclamation laws, could not be higher.