mountaintop mining, Tag

Below is a trailer for the new movie about coal and the fight for the last mountain remaining in Appalachia. As you watch, please remember that something like this could happen in your part of the world. We must stand up...

In this era of hyper-partisanship, the mainstream media thinks that bi-partisanship is beautiful…unless both parties agree on an environmental policy, in which case the media invariably recasts the story such that it’s...

Last week Tim Huber of the Associated Press broke news on yet another front being opened in Obama’s war on Appalachian surface coal mining (I blogged about the other front yesterday).

Please watch a video about an alternative to mountain top mining in Appalachia.Read more and take action at CoalRiverWind.orgTags: wind farm, mountaintop mining, take action, coal river wind org

On Friday the 13th, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, decided to allow destructive mountaintop-removal coal mining to proceed without considering the environmental impacts. The court ruled that...