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Obama’s environmental adviser talks coal and mountaintop mining 1
Posted 1 week, 4 days ago
If you could CEQ her now

Coal is here to stay, says Obama’s chief environmental adviser 2
Posted 1 week, 4 days ago
"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 1 week, 5 days ago
Action Jackson

EPA chief Lisa Jackson on mountaintop removal, climate legislation, toxics, and more 3
Posted 1 week, 5 days ago
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 2 weeks ago
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 2 weeks, 3 days ago
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.
Supreme Court rules against coal company accused of buying a West Virginia judge 0
Posted 3 weeks, 5 days ago
After the Massey Energy coal mining company lost a $50 million verdict to a competitor, CEO Don Blankenship spent $3 million electing a friendly judge to West Virginia's Supreme Court of Appeals who went on to cast the deciding vote in a case that overturned the verdict. But yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court handed a setback to Massey, a company notorious for its reliance on destructive mountaintop removal mining throughout Central Appalachia, with a ruling that elected judges must recuse themselves from cases involving big campaign contributors.
Virginia OKs uranium mining study 29
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
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 1 month, 3 weeks ago
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 2 months, 1 week ago
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 2 months, 3 weeks ago
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 3 months ago
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.
Mountaintop removal blow-back

Coal mining industry fights back with deceptions about jobs and the economy 1
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
The Obama Administration signaled a major shift yesterday in how mountaintop removal coal mining will be regulated. The blow-back from the mining industry was immediate and fierce.
Thirty years of betrayal later, Appalachia can't wait

Dear Nancy Sutley: Get it right on mountaintop removal 0
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
As a new round of explosives shattered the ridges across mountaintop removal mines in Boone and Raleigh counties in West Virginia yesterday, unleashed by a recent U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals decision, White House Council on Environmental Quality chair Nancy Sutley gave the first indications that the Obama administration plans to act promptly on dealing with the ravages of mountaintop removal in Appalachia.
Big Coal on the ropes

Knock out calls for anti-mountaintop removal bills 0
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Ain't no mountain high enough: King Coal is on the ropes. Across the nation, anti-mountaintop removal bills are quickly being moved across Capitol Hill and numerous legislatures this week to stop one of the most egregious human rights and environmental violations in modern times.
Injustice in Ecuador

Ecuadorian government shuts down leading environmental group 0
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Ecuadorian government has shut down Acción Ecológica (Environmental Action), withdrawing the legal status of one of South America's best-known environmental groups. Acción Ecológica has in recent months supported indigenous-led, mass protests and highway blockades against President Rafael Correa's support for large-scale mining.
Power Past Coal communities host anti-coal events during first 100 days of Obama administration 0
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Oprah to save Appalachia with her mighty army of suburban moms? 0
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Coal River Mountain sit-in campaign blooms 0
Posted 4 months ago
Waterkeeper Alliance unveils anti-coal campaign 4
Posted 4 months ago