Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

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

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The Media Consortium

Network of Leading Progressive Independent Journalism Organizations

Editor's Note: Due to the holidays, the Weekly Mulch will appear on Thursday afternoon both this week and next week. We'll resume regular Friday morni...

Jeff Biggers

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

As we head into another winter of discontent in the coalfields, Judy Bonds always gives me a reason to believe in the still small possibility of environmental justice in America.

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

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

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Robert Redford

Actor, director and environmental activist

We no longer have to sacrifice an iconic landscape in order to burn some dirty rocks. And yet a mining company got approval last month to open Utah's first-ever strip mine for coal.

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

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

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Michael Brune

Executive Director, The Sierra Club

Could we one day see Massey putting wind turbines on mountaintops instead of tearing those mountains apart? Stranger things have happened.

Jeff Biggers

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

In a new episode of Big Coal Gone Wild last week, coal lobbyists announced their intentions to rebrand mountaintop removal mining as "mountaintop development."

Jeff Biggers

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

No one in Washington, DC--outside of President Obama--will determine the future of clean water and health care in the Appalachian coalfields more than...

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: 29 co...

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: BP ma...

Jeff Biggers

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

For a Republican-led Congress about to take over Washington, DC, I hope the fate of the coal miners and their families and communities -- and our nation's dependence on dirty and deadly coal -- is not overlooked.

Scott Edwards

Co-Director, Food & Water Justice Project

Fossil fuels are to our ecosystems what cigarettes are to our human body systems.

Jeff Biggers

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

As the Labor Department made an unprecedented move yesterday to file a court injunction to shut down a hazardous Massey Energy coal mine in eastern Ke...

Rebecca R. Scott

Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, University of Missouri

I grew up in West Virginia and witnessed the destruction from the coalfields. In light of the environmental damages caused by mountaintop removal and other intensive coal mining techniques, I had to ask, how do people endure this?

Heath Harrison

A cartoonist, freelance writer and frequent contributor to Wvablue.com.

As the final week of the campaign begins, the New York Times reports that FOX News commentator Dick Morris has targeted W.Va. Democratic Congressman N...