West Virginia

The Last Time Byrd's Record Was Broken

John R. Bohrer | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Joseph G. Cannon, Longest Serving Member of Congress, Robert C. Byrd, West Virginia, Bob Byrd, Carl Hayden, Robert Byrd, Arizona, Illinois, Politics News

Today, Senator Robert C. Byrd broke the record of a one-time colleague as the longest-serving member of Congress in U.S. history. Let's put his long run into perspective.

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Robert Byrd Becomes Longest-Serving Member Of Congress

AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: House, Senate, Congress, Robert Bird, Service Record, West Virginia, Erma Byrd, Robert C. Byrd, Who Is in Congress the Longest, Most Terms in Congress, Longerst Serving Member of Congress, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Sen. Robert C. Byrd became history's longest-serving member of Congress on Wednesday, earning a formal salute from the Senate and P...

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Bomb Appalachia (and Face the Music)

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Clearcutting, Coal, Center for Public Integrity, West Virginia, Campaign, Coal Industry, Climate, Grassroots, Coal River Mountain, Climate Change, Virginia, Coal Lobby, Mountaintop Removal, Unions, Environmentalism, JP Morgan Chase, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Wto, Mother Jones, Labor, Clean Energy, Congress, Green, Global Warming, Government, Mountains, Epa, Harlan County, Mines, Bush Administration, Blair Mountain, Tennessee, Climate Action Partnership, President Obama, Washington, Obama, Coal Czar, Bush, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Naacp, Appalachia, Workers, Climate Justice, Office of Surface Mining, Civil Disobedience, Kentucky, Henry Waxman, Forests, Department of the Interior, Dirty Coal, Green Jobs, Wall Street, Astroturfing, Coal Mining, Duke Energy, Green News, Mining, Water, Clean Coal, Osr, Appalachian Mountains, Activism, Protest, Massey Energy, Green News

Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.

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Urge the Obama Administration to Save Coal River Mountain

Rob Perks | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Appalachia, Wind, Coal, Dirty Coal, West Virginia, Mountain Top Mining, Coal River, Mountain Top Removal, Wind Farm, Coal River Mountain, Green News

Rising above a picturesque valley in southern West Virginia, Coal River Mountain represents the last, best hope for a community resisting the legacy of dirty energy in this part of Appalachia.

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Getting enough sleep? They aren't in West Virginia

AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 10.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Cdc, Health, West Virginia, Obesity, Sleep Deprivation, Sleep Disorders, Sleep, Living News

ATLANTA — Sleepless in Seattle? Hardly. West Virginia is where people are really staying awake, according to the first government study to monit...

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EPA to Revoke Permit for Infamous WV Mountaintop Removal Mine

Rob Perks | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Appalachia, Obama, Mtr, West Virginia, Mountain Top Mining, Spruce Mine, Mountain Top Removal, Dirty Coal, EPA Veto, Coal Mining, Green News

The EPA is taking unprecedented action to bring to an end the saga of the infamous Spruce Mine, jamming a stake in the heart of what would have been the largest mountaintop removal project in the history of West Virginia.

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Readers' Photos of Fall Leaves

Huffington Post | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Slidepoll, Leaves, Best-Fall-Foliage-Pics, Autumn, Fall, Green Living, Fall Foilage, Colorado, New York, West Virginia, New Hampshire, Ohio, Utah, Maine, Montreal, Alabama, Nature, Illinois, New Jersey, Michigan, South Dakota, Green News

Following our slide show of the best places to go for autumn leaves, readers sent in their favorite photos of fall foliage. From Michigan to New Hamp...

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Huntington, West Virginia, Fattest US City, To Star On Jamie Oliver Reality Show

AP | TOM BREEN | Posted 10.09.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Television, Reality Television, Huntington, Jamie Oliver, West Virginia, Fattest City, Obesity, Huntington-West-Virginia, Entertainment News

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Weary of being stuck with what they call the false label of America's unhealthiest city, Huntington residents are offering a...

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West Virginians Protest For Health Reform

Posted 10.06.2009 | Impact

Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Care Protests, Public Option, Health Care, Health Care Public Option, West Virginia, Impact News

A small but vocal group of protesters walked several blocks in Charleston, West Virginia, on Monday to promote health care reform. The group carried f...

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Ford's Lucky Day Revisited

Geri Spieler | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dublin, Gerald Ford, Judge, Sara-Jane-Moore, Sarah Jane Kahn, West Virginia, Prison, Secret Service, Charleston, St Francis Hotel, Assassination, Attempt, Fbi, New Jersey, San Francisco, Samuel Conti, Politics News

Thirty-four years later, the Secret Service is still trying to understand the mind of that 45 year old woman, mother and doctor's wife who aimed and shot at Gerald Ford.

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Robert Byrd Should Resign From the Senate -- Today

Carol Felsenthal | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert Byrd, Health Care, Ted Kennedy, Senate Replacement, West Virginia, Senate Democrats, Joe Manchin, Massachusetts, Politics News

What happens if health care comes up for a vote and Byrd is simply too sick to be wheeled in?

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Coal Slurry Smiles: NY Times Nails Clean Water Act Crimes and Punishment

Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Mountaintop Removal, Epa, Appalachia, NY Times, Coal Slurry, Water, Disease, West Virginia, Clean Water Act, Coal Ash, Lisa Jackson, Joe Manchin, Coal, Green News

Duhigg's portrait of the Clean Water Act violations in West Virginia--and the indifference of state agencies--blew the cover on one of the worst kept secrets in Appalachia.

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Private Security Walks Off The Job in Protest; Coal Company Goes Too Far

Jerry Cope | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Ken Hechler, Massey Energy, Civil Disobedience, West Virginia, Epa, Mountain Top Removal, James Hansen, Daryl Hannah, Climate Change, Coal Mining, Coal, Tree-Hugger, Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Policy, Environment, Green News

Laura Steepleton and Nick Stocks spent the past week tree-sitting 80 feet above the ground in an act of civil disobedience protesting Massey Energy's mountaintop removal site there.

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Sounds of Silence in Appalachia: MTR Blasting Temporarily Halted

Jerry Cope | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Massey Energy, Civil Disobedience, Don Blankenship, West-Virginia-Department-of-Environmental-Protection, Mountaintop Removal, Epa, West Virginia, Obama Administration, Climate Change, Joe Manchin, Coal Mining, Global Warming, Green News

On any given day, 3.5 million pounds of explosives blast apart the oldest mountain range on the planet. But for the past week there have only been sounds of silence.

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Call Now: Verizon Wireless Sponsors Union-Busting Mountaintop Removal Rally?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Massey Energy, Dirty Coal, Labor Day, United Mine Workers, Ted Nugent, Sean Hannity, President Barack Obama, Climate Change, Communication Workers of America, Verizon Wireless, Environmental Defense Fund, Mountaintop Removal, Coal, West Virginia, Green News

Verizon and a British Lord are joining forces to deny climate change and fight unions.

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Stop the Teabaggers, Give Them Green Jobs: Lessons From the Coalfields of West Virginia

Mike Elk | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business

Read More: George Bush, Al Gore, Green Jobs, Teabagging, Unemployment, Mountaintop Removal, New Deal, West Virginia, Town Halls, Clean Energy, Racism, Fdr, Progresive-Movement, Appalachia Coal, Appalachia, Appalachia Poverty, Business News

To know the story of West Virginia is to know why the progressive movement is failing to win over white working class voters. Because of their primary concern: jobs.

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Dollywood Boycott Falls Flat

Dave Cooper | Posted 09.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Dolly Parton, Tennessee, Dollywood, Mountaintop Removal, Boycott, Miners, Coal, West Virginia, Green News

Raised in the Smoky Mountains of east Tennessee, Dolly Parton is the public face of Smoky Mountain tourism. So why on earth would anyone want to boycott Dollywood?

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Tennessee Group Invites Pro-Coal Fisherman to TVA Disaster

Dave Cooper | Posted 09.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Bass, Clean Coal, West Virginia, Jeremy Starks, Coal Ash, Harriman, Tennessee, Tva, Kingston, Green News

The TVA disaster -- over 100 times larger than the 12-million gallon Exxon Valdez spill -- is considered by environmentalists to be the world's worst environmental disaster since Chernobyl.

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Rocker Ted Nugent to Emcee Pro-Coal "Friends of America" Rally in West Virginia

Dave Cooper | Posted 09.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Hannity, Blankenship, West Virginia, Mountaintop Removal, Coal, Strip Mining, Massey, Nugent, Entertainment News

Nugent, whose on-stage antics include wearing a loincloth and inviting President Obama to "suck on my machine gun" will emcee the event, which also inculdes Sean Hannity and Hank Williams Jr.

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Eunice Kennedy Shriver: Human Style

Carl Sferrazza Anthony | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Alderson Prison, West Virginia, Mentally Retarded, Betty Ford, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Rosemary Kennedy, Florence Harding, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Nancy Reagan, Politics News

Part of Mrs. Shriver's public appeal was her personal authenticity. I often thought of another humanitarian in a hurry -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- whenever I ran into Mrs. Shriver.

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VIDEO UPDATE: Coalfield Uprising Grows: Will Feds Take Down WVA's Embarrassing DEP?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Mountaintop Premoval, Dirty Coal, President Barack Obama, Big Coal, West Virginia, Renewable Energy, Department of Interior, Coal, Osm, Wvdep, Green News

The failed West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection is emerging as an embarrassingly pro-coal anti-mountain public relations nightmare.

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West Virginia Tourists Beware: Violence Escalates in Coalfields

Dave Cooper | Posted 08.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Ken Hechler, Don Blankenship, West Virginia, Mountaintop Removal, Manchin, Coal, Massey, Kayford, Mattea, Hansen, Hannah, Green News

Violence against environmental activists seems almost inevitable in the coalfields this summer as West Virginia politicians ignore the tense situation.

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The Failure of Democracy in West Virginia: Redefining "Alternative" Energy

Jerry Cope | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green

Alternative energy is a standard reference to energy sources that are not carbon based. But in West Virginia, many of the designated "alternative" energy sources contribute not only significantly more GHG emissions than the dirtiest conventional coal fired plants, they emit toxic pollutants as well.

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Why I Was Arrested in Coal River, West Virginia

Daryl Hannah | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Energy, Daryl Hannah Arrested, Celebrities Talk Politics, Clean Coal, West Virginia, Mountain Top Removal, Daryl Hannah, Coal, Green News

Why would I fly across the country on my own dime knowing I would most likely end up in jail in one of the poorest parts of America? Well, have you ever heard of MTR?

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Robert Byrd Released After Month-Long Hospital Stay

AP | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert Byrd, Senator Byrd, Byrd, Robert Byrd Hospitalized, Senate, West Virginia, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Sen. Robert Byrd's office says he's been released from the hospital and is at his Washington-area home recuperating from a more-tha...

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