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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

Topics: coal, energy, mining, West Virginia (all these topics)

When the Chippewas Are Down A virtual walking tour through Wisconsin's Sokaogon Chippewa community with Tina Van Zile	Mary Wiltenburg	23 Mar 2006	Main Dish
Click image to take the tour. Photo by Mary Wiltenburg. Like many tribal lands across North America, the Sokaogon Chippewa reservation in Northern Wisconsin faces environmental perils that threaten not only the land, but also the livelihood and culture of the people who live on it. The Sokaogon spent close ...
Topics: environmental justice, mining, politics, Poverty and the Environment, Wisconsin (all these topics)

The Legend of Weepy Hollow An excerpt from Missing Mountains, a new book about mountaintop-removal mining		16 Feb 2006	Arts and Minds
Missing Mountains, Wind Publications, 220 pgs., 2005. In August of 2002, Amanda Moore, a lawyer for the Appalachian Citizens Law Center, took on what she thought was a cut-and-dried legal matter for Granville Lee Burke, a resident of Chopping Branch Hollow in eastern Kentucky. Earlier that year, a flood that wreaked havoc throughout the hollow had severely damaged Burke's house ...
Topics: books, coal, energy, environmental justice, Kentucky, mining, Poverty and the Environment (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)

Coal companies sue feds for letting them slack on safety	David Roberts	08 Feb 2006	Gristmill

Topics: business, coal, energy, mining (all these topics)

What's Yours Is Mine Mining-law revamp could put millions of public acres up for sale	Amanda Griscom Little	17 Nov 2005	Muckraker
Greens beamed and GOP leaders bristled last week after language paving the way for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and on the Outer Continental Shelf was stricken from the House budget reconciliation bill. But many Democrats and enviros are now sounding the alarm over another provision in the bill, one that's stirred up far less of a public ruckus but is ...
Topics: legislation, mining, Muckraker, politics, public lands (all these topics)

Harmin' Hammer? On baking soda	Umbra Fisk	10 Aug 2005	Ask Umbra

Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green cleaning, green living, mining, Wyoming (all these topics)

A Beautiful Mine? A local ponders the implications of the EPA's approval of a large gold mine in Alaska	Corey McKrill	01 Jul 2005	Gristmill

Topics: Alaska, mining (all these topics)

Mine Sweeper Former journalist Stephanie Roth is battling against a gold mine in Romania	Michelle Nijhuis	21 Apr 2005	Main Dish

Topics: energy, European Union, mining (all these topics)

The killing of Appalachia Harper's article on Appalachian mountaintop-removal mining causes outbreak of despair, depression	David Roberts	11 Apr 2005	Gristmill

Topics: coal, energy, mining (all these topics)

Reid Between the Mines Senate Democratic leader Reid is a friend to the mining industry		02 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Reid Between the Mines Senate Democratic leader Reid is a friend to the mining industry Sen. Harry Reid, the new leader of the Senate Democrats, knows full-well that his home state of Nevada isn't a liberal or environmental stronghold. Thus he has had to balance his party's political agenda with his state's economic interests, and one of those big interests is mining. Reid has repeat ...
Topics: Harry Reid, mining, Nevada, nuclear power, politics, toxics, waste (all these topics)

Mine, All Mine EPA and BLM fight over how to protect groundwater from massive Nevada mine	Amanda Griscom	10 Mar 2004	Muckraker
In an age when corporate America can't see past its quarterly results, it's hard to imagine how the world's largest gold producer is going to manage the environmental damage caused by one of its mines hundreds or even thousands of years into the future. Future site of the Phoenix mine. Photo: Lighthawk, Great Basin Mine Watch. That's the challenge Newmont Mining Corp. faces as ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining, Muckraker, Nevada, nuclear power, politics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Zuni Side Up Zuni tribe member Pablo Padilla talks about beating back a strip mine	Hillary Rosner	07 Aug 2003	Main Dish
Earlier this week, Native Americans and environmentalists won a surprising victory when a power company abandoned plans to build a highly controversial coal mine in New Mexico. Zuni Salt Lake. Photo: Zuni Salt Lake Coalition. For 20 years, the Salt River Project, an Arizona-based utility company, had sought to build an 18,000-acre strip mine near a salt lake in Western New Mexico. Th ...
Topics: coal, energy, mining, New Mexico (all these topics)

Deplored of the Rings On wedding rings	Umbra Fisk	12 Feb 2003	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Help! I am getting married soon and I need to know what I should do about rings. I know that mining for metals and gems is very destructive, and I am also concerned about supporting civil war in Africa through a diamond purchase. Is my only environmentally friendly option to forgo the engagement and wedding rings? Thanks, Kathleen, Oakland, Calif. Dearest Kathleen, Good for you for caring, and congratulations on you ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, mining, toxics (all these topics)

Congress Is Playing the Ugly Rider Game Again	Donella H. Meadows	26 Jul 1999	Global Citizen
"ACTION ALERT. This week the Senate is expected to vote on an Interior Appropriations bill that has a dirty baker's dozen of anti-environmental riders. Now is the time to step up our opposition to these undemocratic attacks on the environment." I get so darn sick of these emails. I get sick of the whole cynical rider game. They play it, down there in the Great White Governing City, whenever they ap ...
Topics: Harry Reid, mining, oil, politics, toxics, waste (all these topics)

Bird in the Hand Worth Two for Bush?	Ben White	02 Jun 1999	Muckraker
While you were smoothing on suntan lotion or stoking the barbecue this weekend, Texas state legislators were madly finishing up work before their midnight May 31 deadline. Gov. George W. Bush's tax cuts and education initiatives got most of the attention, but we kept our gaze trained on the environmental bills likely to come up in debate as "Dubya" leaves the friendly confines of Austin and hits the presidential campaign tra ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, George Bush, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, mining, Muckraker, politics, renewable energy, Washington (all these topics)

Riders on the Storm	Ben White	12 May 1999	Muckraker
No one in her or his right mind thinks the 106th Congress is going to pass a whole lot of actual free-standing legislation. It will likely take every ounce of strength this feeble Congress can muster to pass the essential spending bills that fund the government. So riders, those pesky little items that hope to escape scrutiny by hitching a ride on big money bills, are the name of the game, as noted in last week's Muckraker. The current vehicle for ...
Topics: education, environmental non-government organizations, mining, Muckraker, politics, United States, waste, wildlife (all these topics)

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