"And upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matthew: 16:13-18.

Declaring his intent to chart a path toward "clean coal," President Obama announced the establishment of an Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage this week, along with...

I miss Van Jones. A lot of us miss President Obama's former green jobs visionary.

That includes coal miners, and residents on Coal River Mountain.

If President Obama's brilliant green jobs administrator hadn't been hounded out of office in a bizarre witch hunt last fall, we would be engaged in...

While President Obama addresses the US Congress in his historic State of the Union tonight, our nation will sit back and burn an estimated 115,000 tons of coal. Close to 250,000 tons of CO2 will be released from coal-fired plants during the hourlong presentation; hundreds of pounds of toxic mercury...

Perched on 60-foot-high platforms in tulip poplar and oak trees, three nonviolent tree-sitting protestors associated with Climate Ground Zero and Mountain Justice carried out the duty of the EPA and the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection this morning--they reportedly shut down the reckless mountaintop removal blasting at the

Goodbye purple mountain's majesty--here comes Patriot Coal!

Last night on the Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert hosted scientist Margaret Palmer in a brilliant takedown of the Obama administration's recent decision to green light more mountaintop removal permits, in light of a blockbuster new scientific study that concluded that...

Who needs to go to the movie theatre to watch Avatar and the horrors of ruthless extraction companies when we have our own bizarre mountaintop removal policies at play. Check out the trailers for this week's episodes:

UPDATE: 2pm EST: Great News for Black Mesa: The permit for the controversial...

This is the year that mountaintop removal ends.

This is the year we begin the just transition in the coalfields--climate ground zero--with a real commitment to sustainable economic development for a clean energy future.

This is what we know: Mountaintop removal provides less than 8-10 percent of all national...

Dashing through the snow in the watersheds of some of the last old growth forest in Illinois ... are discharges of illegal levels of pollutants, including manganese, total suspended solids, sulfates, iron, and acidic water, thanks to a reckless strip-mining coal operation.

At the Fulton County Health Department in Canton,...

The clean energy battle frontline now moves to Kentucky--and that state's choice to either pursue the outdated plans for the costly and deadly Smith #1 coal-fired plant, or transition to a combination of energy efficiency and clean energy options that would generate more sustainable jobs and revenue for the Bluegrass...

Note: This is a guest post by Stephanie Pistello, Ben Evans, Jeff Biggers and Ben Sollee, co-founders of the Coal Free Future Project.

As world leaders gather for the Copenhagen Climate Summit, we plan to make our own Copenhagen pledge here at home: It's time to...

Note: As Google Earth takes world leaders at the Copenhagen Climate Summit on a virtual flyover of Coal River Mountain today, besieged residents and citizens groups from Coal River Mountain and across West Virginia and the Appalachian coalfields, along with their national allies, will hold a 2pm EST...

On the anniversary of Rosa Parks' historic act of civil disobedience, when her refusal to move from her seat on December 1, 1955 sparked the Montgomery bus boycott and triggered the rise of the Civil Rights Movement, 81-year-old veteran and anti-mountaintop removal activist Roland Micklem was arrested by law...

As a prologue to the COP 15 in Copenhagen, protesters took to the streets across the country in a national day of climate justice action. From die-ins, to fasts, to streets protests, to locked down acts of civil disobedience, citizens groups called for a halt to new coal-fired plant construction,...

Not that we haven't been informed -- that's the message from an incredible year of new books on climate destabilization, dirty energy policies, bogus Big Coal campaigns and a vibrant anti-coal movement, a growing coalfield resistance and the tragedy of mountaintop removal, and the still big possibility of renewable energy...

If the Obama administration is unwilling or unable to stop the massive environmental destruction of historic mountain ranges and essential drinking water for a relatively tiny amount of coal, can we honestly believe they will be able to phase out coal emissions at the level necessary to stop climate change?...

I think at the Obama administration we all believe that everybody has the right to live in a clean, healthy environment and a prosperous economy. And we're working towards that. We need to reach out to communities whose voices have been ignored and where there are disproportional impacts, whether it's...

This Friday, November 13th, 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. The St. Paul Coal Company Mine in Cherry was hailed by its consulting engineer as...

While one did sing, the other did shout,
And the angel unlocked the door.
He had the keys to the kingdom, Lord

Any CD album that begins with a haunting Uzbek-influenced trumpet and percussion backup on Ralph Stanley's gospel classic, "Keys to the Kingdom," and ends with Willie...

It's funny how these embarrassing announcements always come on late Friday afternoon.

While anti-mountaintop removal protests spread across the nation and at the EPA headquarters in Washington, DC last Friday, a legal representative for the Department of Interior checked the empty parking lot of the National Press Club and...

BREAKING NEWS: The Coalfield Uprising is spreading across the nation.

As millions of pounds of explosions rip across their mountain communities, including the clean energy landmark of Coal River Mountain, scores of residents from the Appalachian coalfields have joined with supporters from across the country in a series...