Mining And Drilling

Stop In the Name of Law

EPA says pending mountaintop-removal permits would likely violate Clean Water Act 9
Posted 11 Sep 2009 9:04 AM
Very big news out of the Environmental Protection Agency this morning: The agency has determined that all 79 mountaintop-removal mining permits submitted to it for review by the Army Corps of Engineers would violate the Clean Water Act.
Blast It, EPA: Make a Decision Already!

A moment of truth for Appalachia, Obama and EPA on mountaintop removal coal mining 4
Posted 9 Sep 2009 5:19 PM
time to change "friends and family" selections

Verizon sponsors climate-change-denying mountaintop-removal rally? 22
Posted 29 Aug 2009 9:41 AM
Do 87 million Verizon Wireless customers, stockholders, and its Public Policy Development and Corporate Responsibility Department know that their company is a cosponsor of next week's climate change–denying, union-busting, pro–mountaintop removal rally organized by Massey Energy in Logan, W.Va.?
$50,000 bail for jailed protesters

VIDEO: Weeklong Mountaintop-removal Tree-sit Ends 1
Posted 29 Aug 2009 1:06 PM
Tree-sitting protesters in mountain-removal country have come back down to the ground -- but the fight continues.
parliament fights coal, tribes fight mountaintop removal

India says: Take this mine and shove it 0
Posted 18 Aug 2009 8:01 PM
Members of parliament in India from various political parties put aside their differences and called on the Prime Minister to stop a coal mine in a forest reserve.
Meet power rock and his sidekick spurt

Coal coloring book teaches kids all about dirty energy 8
Posted 19 Aug 2009 8:19 AM
We found a terrible children's coloring book made by a coal-industry group. Let’s have a look!
A FARCE TO BE RECKONED WITH

Families not allowed in ‘families for coal’ group 0
Posted 19 Aug 2009 8:09 AM
Families Organized to Represent the Coal Economy (FORCE, naturally) is a Pennsylvania-based pro-coal organization. Oh, and by the way, by "families" the group doesn't actually mean families.
Are you with Don Blankenship or against him?

We are all from Wise County 2
Posted 18 Aug 2009 1:56 PM
Want to get really angry about health care and global warming? Not the ginned-up rage of the Obama-was-really-born-in-Kenya crowd, but an anger that fires you up to take action in the name of justice? Anger like the rage felt by so many white Northerners and Southerners in 1963 when they saw Birmingham's fire hoses turned on patriotic African-Americans, a rage so profound that they too joined the civil rights revolution?

Well I invite you, in a brief audio and video tour, to bear witness to what's happening in Wise County, Virginia.
Coal is the enemy of the human race, pant-wetting terror edition

Blackout: Heinberg on dwindling coal reserves and the siren song of “clean coal” 13
Posted 27 Jul 2009 4:03 PM
There isn't nearly as much coal left as most people think. "Clean coal" will run down limited reserves even faster. If humanity doesn't begin massive, sustained investment in renewable power sources immediately, civilization could be at risk before the end of the century. And that's without considering the impacts of climate change. Such is the stark conclusion of Richard Heinberg's Blackout: Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis, which despite its dry tone and technical complexity is one of the scariest f*cking books I've ever read.
Obama’s environmental adviser talks coal and mountaintop mining 1
Posted 24 Jun 2009 4:19 PM
If you could CEQ her now

Coal is here to stay, says Obama’s chief environmental adviser 2
Posted 24 Jun 2009 3:55 PM
"Clearly coal is a part of our energy mix now and it's likely to be so in the future," says Nancy Sutley, chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. In an exclusive interview, she also talks about economic stimulus, green jobs, and mountaintop-removal mining. Watch the video and read the highlights.
EPA chief on mountaintop mining, climate, and more 0
Posted 23 Jun 2009 4:42 PM
Action Jackson

EPA chief Lisa Jackson on mountaintop removal, climate legislation, toxics, and more 3
Posted 23 Jun 2009 4:36 PM
The EPA can't stop mountaintop-removal mining under current law, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson tells Grist. In an exclusive interview, she also talks about climate legislation, toxics, environmental justice, and what it's like to be part of Obama's "green Cabinet." Watch the video and read the highlights.
Reckoning at Coal River

Will media and nation bear witness to coalfield tragedy this week? 2
Posted 21 Jun 2009 7:25 PM
A historic reckoning is taking place on Coal River in West Virginia this week -- and in Washington, DC, on Thursday.
Launches 7 Days That Will Shake Mountaintop Removal Operations

Daring protesters target mountaintop-removal sites 2
Posted 18 Jun 2009 5:01 AM
Four daring protestors visited a mountaintop removal site in West Virginia, scaled a towering 20-story dragline, and unfolded a huge banner: JUST STOP MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL.
Virginia OKs uranium mining study 29
Posted 22 May 2009 12:40 PM
A proposal to mine uranium in south-central Virginia advanced this week when a key state body approved a study of the matter. Virginia has banned uranium mining for the past 25 years.
Runaway Joe

Debate: Roberts v. ‘clean coal’ flack Joe Lucas 0
Posted 14 May 2009 6:00 AM
Here's an online debate between me and clean coal spokesflack Joe Lucas, originally run by the PBS show NOW.
A Fit of Peak

An interview with ‘Green Nobel’ winner Maria Gunnoe 0
Posted 24 Apr 2009 11:53 AM
The West Virginia activist talks about the horrors of mountaintop mining, the fierceness of Appalachian mothers, and the unintended motivation that Obama's giving Big Coal.
West Virginia House Committee puts gag order on clean energy resolution

No stinkin’ green jobs or responsible mining debate! 5
Posted 10 Apr 2009 10:29 AM
WV House members just blocked a resolution for the development of a nationally acclaimed industrial wind farm and responsible underground coal mining on Coal River Mountain from going to the floor for an actual debate or vote.
Dear Sen. Byrd: Restoring mountains could be your greatest legacy

A plea to West Virginia’s legendary Senator to stop mountaintop removal 1
Posted 5 Apr 2009 5:02 PM
With daily ammonium nitrate/fuel oil explosions from mountaintop removal operations rocking his home and dismantling the mountain above his community, Bo Webb, a Vietnam vet, recently penned an appeal to his West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd to co-sponsor the Appalachian Mountain Restoration Act to stop mountaintop removal and launch a green jobs initiative in Appalachia.