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VBS.tv on West Virginia coal Internet TV that doesn't suck!	David Roberts	30 Mar 2007	Gristmill
I confess I had never heard of VBS.tv before they wrote us. It's an internet TV station that grew out of Vice magazine. Poking around their site, I must say it looks pretty damn cool. Raw, but cool. I've been wondering when a viable internet TV production outfit will pop up. Maybe this is it. (Here's the mission statement, if you're interested.) The reason they wrote us is to flag an investigative series they did called Toxic: West Virginia. To wit: Part 1: Mountain ...
Topics: coal, energy, green living, TV, websites, West Virginia (all these topics)

The good, the bad, the politics as usual More on coal in West Virginia	Jessica Tzerman	28 Mar 2007	Gristmill
OK, here's some rare good news in the fight against mountaintop removal mining. Last Friday, Judge Robert "Chuck" Chambers, a federal judge in West Virginia, ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers broke the law in issuing MTR mining permits that would allow streams to be buried. This means that, finally, the Corps, which approves mining permits, will have to recognize and uphold the Clean Water Act! They've been called out for illegally issuing per ...
Topics: coal, energy, politics, West Virginia (all these topics)

Unseamly Behavior Federal judge blocks West Virginia coal-mining permits		26 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Unseamly Behavior Federal judge blocks West Virginia coal-mining permits Foes of mountaintop-removal mining got a break late Friday when a federal judge blocked four permits for mines in West Virginia. The permits, issued by the Army Corps of Engineers, had said it was A-OK for Massey Energy's subsidiaries to fill valleys with the dirt and other detritus left over from shearing off moun ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, coal, energy, mining, news, West Virginia (all these topics)

Multiple-choice Mitt visits West Virginia ...	David Roberts	09 Mar 2007	Gristmill
... and touts coal. Bold!
Topics: coal, energy, politics, West Virginia (all these topics)

Pits of Despair Coal industry fends off concerns, keeps working on comeback		16 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
Pits of Despair Coal industry fends off concerns, keeps working on comeback Some of the tap water in West Virginia's Mingo County is flowing in funny colors: red, brown, and black. Alarmed residents asked the state if the discoloration, caused by high levels of heavy metals including arsenic and lead, could be related to Big Coal's practice of injecting its waste underground. Regulators say there's ...
Topics: coal, energy, mining and drilling, news, West Virginia (all these topics)

Go Tell It on the Mountain Allen Johnson rallies Christians to fight against mountaintop-removal mining	David Roberts	07 Nov 2006	Main Dish
Allen Johnson. As its not-at-all euphemistic name would indicate, mountaintop-removal mining makes no effort to disguise its impact. Coal-mining companies brazenly invade Appalachian communities, blow the tops off mountains, send massive coal trucks careening up and down narrow roads, spew coal dust into the air and mining waste into the water, and terrorize reside ...
Topics: God and the Environment, grassroots activism, Kentucky, mining, religion and spirituality, West Virginia (all these topics)

Coal Hollow A project on the effects of coal mining in Appalachia	David Roberts	06 Sep 2006	Gristmill
Photographs and oral histories from Coal Hollow -- a project on the effects of coal mining on poor Appalachians in West Virginia -- will be on display at the Southeast Museum of Photography on the Daytona Beach campus of the Daytona Beach Community College from August 31 - October 29. Whether or not you make it down to Florida, check out the book and DVD. The kind of poverty that wouldn't be out of place in the most desolate developing nations exists in th ...
Topics: coal, energy, mining, West Virginia (all these topics)

Blast Rites In coal country, mining is destroying cemeteries and faith	Jessica Tzerman	03 Aug 2006	Main Dish
James Bowe, a lifelong resident of Whitesville, W.Va., knows the mountains around his home better than he knows himself. He's seen friends and family buried there, and has devoted countless hours to protecting his loved ones' resting places and the Indian burial grounds that stand alongside them. So when Bowe pulled up on his four-wheeler in early April and spotted a coal company drilling in the ...
Topics: Appalachia, coal, energy, Ohio, West Virginia (all these topics)

Moving Mountains Mountaintop-removal mining is devastating Appalachia, but residents are fighting back	Erik Reece	16 Feb 2006	Main Dish
This article was originally published in Orion Magazine. Not since the glaciers pushed toward these ridgelines a million years ago have the Appalachian Mountains been as threatened as they are today. But the coal-extraction process decimating this landscape, known as mountaintop removal, has generated little press beyond the region. A mountaintop no more. Photo: Viv ...
Topics: Appalachia, coal, energy, environmental justice, health, Kentucky, mining, Poverty and the Environment, Virginia, West Virginia (all these topics)

We Live It Every Day The faces and voices of West Virginians battered by mountaintop removal	Antrim Caskey	16 Feb 2006	Main Dish
These photographs were originally published in Orion Magazine. In May 2005, photographer Antrim Caskey encountered Maria Gunnoe in Manhattan. Gunnoe had come to protest the practice of mountaintop-removal mining at a Massey Energy shareholders meeting. Two days later, Caskey left for the Cumberland Plateau, where she made these images. "People are scared," Caskey sa ...
Topics: environmental justice, mining, Poverty and the Environment, West Virginia (all these topics)

Climb Every Mountain. Then Remove It. Activists plan summer of mountaintop-removal protests		29 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Climb Every Mountain. Then Remove It. Activists plan summer of mountaintop-removal protests Environmental activists are planning a summer of focused protest against mountaintop-removal coal mining in West Virginia and surrounding coal states. "Mountain Justice Summer" will call for nonviolent protests against this highly destructive mining technique, whereby entire mountaintops ...
Topics: coal, energy, mining and drilling, news, Tennessee, West Virginia (all these topics)

Batting a Thousand Bats dying in worrying numbers at Appalachian wind farms		04 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Batting a Thousand Bats dying in worrying numbers at Appalachian wind farms Unexpectedly high numbers of bat deaths at wind farms in West Virginia and Pennsylvania have caught scientists by surprise and made conservationists anxious. Whether the spinning turbines entice the bats or confuse their sonar navigation is unclear, but researchers say an estimated 1,500 to 4,000 bats may have perished i ...
Topics: energy, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, wildlife, wind power (all these topics)

Potomac Daddies Male bass in Potomac River laying eggs		15 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Potomac Daddies Male bass in Potomac River laying eggs Male bass in the South Branch of the Potomac River in West Virginia are laying eggs. This is not behavior that people in the know typically expect from male bass. While researchers assume that pollutants of some sort are responsible, this particular stretch of the Potomac does well on the usual water-quality tests. "It's counterintuitive to think we ...
Topics: marine life, water pollution, West Virginia (all these topics)

May the Source Be With You		22 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
May the Source Be With You A newly released, two-year study of the federal Clean Air Act's New Source Review rules criticizes the Bush administration for taking steps to weaken clean air protections and calls for tighter regulations for older coal-fired power plants. New Source Review requires owners of power plants and other polluting facilities to install state-of-the-art emissions-control devic ...
Topics: air pollution, health, politics, Virginia, West Virginia (all these topics)

Coal Miner's Slaughter West Virginia activist Julia Bonds takes on mountaintop-removal mining	Michelle Nijhuis	14 Apr 2003	Main Dish
The ancient mountains of Appalachia are corrugated with deep, narrow valleys, some of them no wider than a football field. Coal-mining families, who have lived in these valleys for generations, are now being driven out of their homes by the latest innovation of the very industry that has sustained them for so many years. That innovation, mountaintop-removal mining, litera ...
Topics: energy, environmental non-government organizations, interview, US EPA, West Virginia (all these topics)

Stone Cold Killer		20 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Stone Cold Killer The massive storm that dumped feet of snow on the Northeast over the weekend was lovely to look at, fun to play in -- and bad news for some river species. In an effort to unbury themselves, many cities in the region dumped plowed snow directly into nearby rivers, a practice some scientists warn could harm stone flies, a de ...
Topics: marine life, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Northeast, Pennsylvania, rivers and watersheds, West Virginia, wildlife (all these topics)

Coal Play		11 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Coal Play It would seem that preemptive measures are all the rage among anti-environmentalists these days. In Alaska, Gov. Frank Murkowski (R) is awaiting the Interior Department's response to a request he made last year (while still a senator) to prohibit the establishment of new wilderness areas in the state. "Congress set aside all this wilderness, ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, energy, mining and drilling, politics, West Virginia, wilderness (all these topics)

Order in the Court		27 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Order in the Court With a staunchly anti-environmental White House and a Republican-dominated Congress, environmentalists are turning to the third branch of government to fight their cause. Happily, the courts have presented a relatively safe haven for greens, upholding strict clean air standards the Bush administration sought to water down, blo ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, logging, national forests, politics, West, West Virginia, wilderness (all these topics)

Up a Creek		06 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Up a Creek The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection is quietly considering a proposal that would greatly increase the amount of cancer-causing effluent that could be dumped into streams. Randy Sovic, of the DEP's Division of Water Resources, said the proposal would give his agency more "flexibility" in writing water-pollution permits. Currently, pollu ...
Topics: rivers and watersheds, state politics, toxics, water pollution, West Virginia (all these topics)

Blowing His Top		14 May 2002	Daily Grist
Blowing His Top The Bush administration appealed a federal court decision yesterday that would limit mountaintop-removal mining and asked the judge to clarify that the ruling "should be read as not applying nationwide or to activities other than coal mining." On May 8, U.S. District Judge Charles H. Haden II of West Virginia ruled that coal mining valley fills, ...
Topics: Appalachia, energy, mining and drilling, politics, renewable energy, West Virginia (all these topics)

Logan's Heroes		12 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Logan's Heroes Here's a stellar example of your tax dollars at work: Last week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers published an Anna Karenina-sized draft study of a proposal by Arch Coal to strip mine 3,100 acres of West Virginia. The strip mine would be the largest ever in the state, and the company has been seeking a permit since 1997. The environmental impact study, a necessary step on ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, energy, mining and drilling, West Virginia (all these topics)

Coal-burning Bush		23 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Coal-burning Bush In other mining news, President Bush did not mince words about his energy plan during an address in the town of Belle, W.Va., yesterday: "We need to use coal. We got a lot of it," he said. The president touted exploitation of domestic coal and other traditional energy resources as a way to avoid dependence on foreign oil and jumpstart a flagging ec ...
Topics: elections, energy, green living, mining and drilling, politics, West Virginia (all these topics)

Almost Heaving, West Virginia		12 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Almost Heaving, West Virginia Lawyers representing the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy and residents of Coalfield, W. Va., asked the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday to consider limiting mountaintop-removal coal mining. Instead of taking coal from mountains, mountaintop removal take the mountain from the coal by blasting away entire hilltops, which scars landscapes and fills streams with debris. A U.S. ...
Topics: energy, mining and drilling, politics, West Virginia (all these topics)

Chamber of Horrors	Ben White	24 May 2000	Muckraker
You'd think the U.S. Chamber of Commerce wouldn't have much free time on its hands these days, what with the raging debate over permanent normal trade relations for China. But the industry-friendly group recently managed to cobble together a charming volume called The Environmentalists' Little Green Book, a compendium of off-the-wall quotes and blistering bon mots from various environmental luminaries and lesser-knowns. The slim 47-page booklet beg ...
Topics: Delaware, energy, Maryland, Muckraker, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, politics, Virginia, West Virginia (all these topics)

Fire on the Mountain	Ben White	13 Apr 2000	Muckraker
Enviros in Washington are apoplectic over what they fear will be a pre-Earth Day cave-in by the Clinton administration over mountaintop-removal mining in West Virginia. This used to be a mountain. Photo: David Miller, www.mountaintopmining.org. Readers may recall this battle from last year's appropriations season, when powerful Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) introduced a rider that would have bypassed a federal judge's ruling against the destructive mini ...
Topics: ... Colorado, energy, Greenpeace, Idaho, Montana, Muckraker, Nevada, politics, Utah, Washington DC, West Virginia, World Bank, Wyoming (all these topics)

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