Mountaintop Removal

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Climate Hope: Inspiring 2009 Books for Clean Energy 0
Posted 7 hours, 32 minutes ago
Don't Miss Climate Change Ground Zero Showdown

Copenhagen, U.S.A. December 7 2
Posted 5 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.
Where's the Love?

Why won’t Lisa Jackson/Nancy Sutley visit a mountaintop removal site? 0
Posted 1 week, 4 days ago
An Appalachian tale 4
Posted 2 weeks, 1 day ago Novelist and West Virginia native Ann Pancake wonders whether the recent media spotlight on mountaintop removal mining will help halt decades of destruction in the rugged region she calls home.
Child Labor, Coal Ash, Coal Slurry

Big Coal and child victims 0
Posted 2 weeks, 2 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.
country stars turn coal into platinum

Coal Country CD benefits anti-mountaintop removal groups 0
Posted 2 weeks, 4 days 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."
Coal River Mountain: destruction stops here

Blowing up our clean energy future 1
Posted 3 weeks, 2 days 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.
back to the future, as plunder of Appalachia continues

Interior will consider mountaintop removal rule in 2011? 0
Posted 3 weeks, 5 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.
things that go pumpkin the night

The most frightening story this Halloween is ... pumpkintop removal 1
Posted 4 weeks, 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 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Coal River Mountain protests spread across the nation 1
Posted 4 weeks, 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 month 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.
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, 1 week 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.
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.