Bill Haney

Filmmaker, entrepreneur, inventor

The folks of the Coal River Valley are taking their place at the forefront of other heroic movements in the annals of American consciousness raising. Stories of heroes like these are the stories of The Last Mountain.

Michael Rose

Author, journalist, documentary filmmaker

Maria Gunnoe's fight to stop MTR and transform the Appalachian Mountains into a wind energy powerhouse attracted filmmaker Bill Haney and his partners, who feature her in their documentary, The Last Mountain.

Renee Hodges

HuffPost Moderator

Fayette County is one of the most beautiful counties in West Virginia. If Frasure Creek Mining LLC is permitted to move forward, that would mean a total of over 3,000 acres of mountaintop removal.

Frances Beinecke

President, Natural Resources Defense Council

The Last Mountain shows that people living near these mines pay a high price for America's addiction to fossil fuels.

Bill McKibben

Author of a dozen books, including 'The End of Nature' and 'Deep Economy'

The Obama administration is making its biggest decisions yet on our energy future, and those decisions are intimately tied to this continent's geography.

The Center for Public Integrity

Original investigative journalism

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Georgianne Nienaber

Writer, seeker, author

There is a new generation of women bluegrass musicians, inspired by and grateful to the trailblazers that went before.

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

Co-hosts of the radio's nationally syndicated 'Green News Report'

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: B...

Jeff Biggers

Author of 'State Out of the Union: Arizona and the Final Showdown Over the American Dream'

Hailed as a cross between Erin Brockovich and the legendary Aunt Molly Jackson, Harlan County native Teri Blanton has been one of the most inspiring and fearless activists on the eastern Kentucky coalfield frontlines.

Michael Brune

Executive Director, The Sierra Club

This week, in the heart of one of the nation's best potential wind energy-producing regions, the Powder River Basin, the Obama administration handed away thousands of acres of federal land, land owned by you and me, to the coal industry.

Frances Beinecke

President, Natural Resources Defense Council

Postcards from the ragged edge of our global energy system highlight the costs we pay, the risks we bear and the toll we submit to every day for the power and fuel we use. The choice before us could not be more clear.

Jennifer Schwab

Chief Sustainability Officer, Sierra Club Green Home

Over the past 12 months, we've had caved-in coal mines, underwater oil spills and now compromised nuclear facilities. What does it take for us to accept that renewable energy is the way to go?

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

Co-hosts of the radio's nationally syndicated 'Green News Report'

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Dems ...

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

Co-hosts of the radio's nationally syndicated 'Green News Report'

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Oil p...

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

Co-hosts of the radio's nationally syndicated 'Green News Report'

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Deadl...

J. Carl Ganter

Director, Circle of Blue

Water scarcity, rapid economic growth, and soaring energy demand are forming a tightening noose that could choke off China's modernization.