Appalachia

Mountain Mourning: Appalachian Women Lead Dramatic Protest Against Mountaintop Removal: Interview With Marilyn Mullens

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Appalachia, Women, Dirty Coal, Mountaintop Removal, Green Energy, Coal, Protest, Mountaintop Removal Mining, Mountaintop Removal Mining Protest, Mountaintop Removal Protest, Green News
Jeff Biggers

After serving her country as a major in the U.S. Army for 22 years, Marilyn Mullens is now leading a group of her fellow Appalachian women to the West Virginia state capitol on Memorial Day to protest the growing humanitarian crisis of mountaintop removal mining.

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PHOTOS: The World's Top 10 Treks

Smithsonian | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Slidepollajax, Turkey, Hikes, Adventure, Australia, New Zealand, Travel, China, Great Wall of China, California, England, Appalachia, Spain, Travel News
Smithsonian

The fact that people still opt to walk today, in the age of the wheel and the combustion engine, tells us there is something virtuous and irresistible about plodding.

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Stopping Coal in Its Tracks: Will Historic Actions This Week Launch Summer Uprising?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Rainforest Action Network, Bank of America, Appalachia, Dirty Coal, James-Hansen, Duke Energy, Mountaintop Removal, Greenpeace, Mickey McCoy, Coal, Anti-Big Coal, Anti Big Coal, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Activists in North Carolina tagged Apple's logo on the coal trains today, calling out the tech company's increasingly coal-fired needs at it expanding Maiden, NC, datacenter.

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After Upper Big Branch: New Film Reveals the Lives and Dreams Along Coal River Valley

Jeff Biggers | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Dirty Coal, Massey Energy, Appalachia, Judy Bonds, Mountaintop Removal Mining, Bo Webb, Joe Manchin, Coal, Upper Big Branch Mine, Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster Documentary, Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Annenberg Weingarten's gift, like the very heritage he explores, is a wonderful legacy, and one that the rest of the nation needs to know as they flip on their lights and electricity each day.

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Spruce Mine Reversal Signals Mountaintop Removal Permits Are Not Slowing to a Trickle

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Epa, Appalachia, Dirty Coal, President Obama, Mountaintop Removal, Spruce, Lisa Jackson, Coal, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Far from a trickle, according to the EPA, "110 individual and general mining permits have been issued by the Corps of Engineers since the Obama administration began under section 404 of the Clean Water Act."

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New Documentary Exposes America's 'Other BP' Disaster

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Coal Rush Movie, Dirty Coal, Energy, Appalachia, Massey Energy, Video, Coal-Rush-Documentary, Coal Slurry, Kevin Thompson, President Obama, Epa, Film, Coal Rush, Coal, MINGO COUNTY, Gulf Oil Spill, Green News
Jeff Biggers

One of the most important film documentaries in years, turning the light on the dark side of all mining, Coal Rush faithfully documents the long-running legal proceedings until the final settlement in the summer of 2011.

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Dave Jamieson

Lone Miner's Death Tells 'Story Of The Appalachian Coal Miner'

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: Kentucky Miner, Richard Coots Miner, Mining Disaster, Richard Coots Kentucky, Owlco Mine, Owlco Energy, Workers, Owlco Safety, Owlco, Big Coal, Workplace Deaths, Owlco Energy Mine, Coal, Msha, Appalachia, Kentucky Mine, Labor, Mining, Richard Coots Owlco, Kentucky, Appalachian Mine, Richard Coots Jr, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Coal Mining, Richard Coots, Tony Oppegard, Green News

Richard Coots, Jr. wasn’t killed in a massive explosion, and the accident that claimed him barely made a ripple of news beyond Eastern Kentucky. He ...

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Appalachian Community Health Emergency Kick Starts Mountaintop Removal Campaign in Washington, D.C.

Jeff Biggers | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Epa, Appalachia, Dirty Coal, President Obama, Department of Health & Human Services, Mountaintop Removal, Birth Defects, Cancer, Coal, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Besieged residents living amid the fallout of the mountaintop removal crisis in the central Appalachian coalfields are descending on Washington, D.C. ...

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Mountaintop Removal and Fracking Foes Join Forces

Dave Cooper | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Mountain Justice Summer, Appalachia, Hydrofracking, Mountaintop Removal, Fracking, Coal, Green News
Dave Cooper

Environmental groups combating fossil fuels are facing titanic energy industries and a congress that is deeply indebted to them for big campaign contributions.

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"The Hand of Man": Powerful New Music Video Captures Appalachia's Grief Over Mountaintop Removal

Jeff Biggers | Posted 04.21.2012

Read More: Appalachia, Kathy Mattea, Mountaintop Removal, Dirty Coal, President Obama, Magnolia Mountain, Coal, Music for the Mountains, Video, Green News
Jeff Biggers

"The Hand of Man" takes the listener to White Star Holler in Kentucky, where seven generations of mountain families have struggled to defend their lives and livelihoods from the toxic fallout from coal company destruction.

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If We Can Stop the Keystone Pipeline, We Can Stop Mountaintop Removal. Right?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Ken Hechler, Tar Sands, Appalachia, Dirty Coal, Sierra Club, Bill Mckibben, Keystone Pipeline, Mountaintop Removal, Coal, Green News
Jeff Biggers

This is where the urgency and solidarity and audacious determination of national organizations -- and residents across the country -- are desperately needed, on a par with the tar sands movement. If we can stop the proposed Keystone pipeline, we can stop mountaintop removal.

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How Do We Move Mountains?

Sabrina Stevens | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Public Schools, Appalachia, American Federation of Teachers, Poverty, West Virginia, Rural America, Schools, Education Reform, Public-Private Partnership, Public Education, Unions, Video, Education News
Sabrina Stevens

Here's hoping that 2012 will be the year when we stop abandoning schools and people as "failures" and begin reconnecting communities to build long-term educational, social and economic success.

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Backpack Snack Program -- Small But Crucial Step in Fighting Hunger in the U.S.

Jenifer Howard | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Non-Profits, Jenifer Howard, Appalachia, Hunger, Poverty, Rockin-Appalachian-Mom-Project, Ramp, Children, Amy Guerrieri, Impact News
Jenifer Howard

Many of the children in Martin County, Kentucky, eat only when they are in school. No food at home on weekends or during school vacations. That means that more than 1,500 children in this community went hungry.

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Metrobilly Band Rocks Charts With Song on Mountaintop Removal (VIDEO)

Jeff Biggers | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Epa, Appalachia, Crime Against Nature, Dirty Coal, Music for the Mountains, President Obama, Bluegrass, Central Appalachia, Kentucky, Folk Music, Mountaintop Removal, Birth Defects, Cancer, Coal, Country Music, Video, Green News
Jeff Biggers

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BUSTED: Why Did House Committee Censor Appalachian Testimony on Mountaintop Removal? (VIDEO)

Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Appalachia, Dirty Coal, House Natural Resource Committee, Big Coal, Maria Gunne, Mountaintop Removal, Bo Webb, Nick Rahall, Joe Manchin, Coal, Green News
Jeff Biggers

The House Natural Resources Committee has some explaining to do. A press release summary from the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources completely deleted any mention of the official testimonies by Appalachian coalfield leader.

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Appalachia Faces Steep Coal Decline

AP | By DYLAN LOVAN | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Energy, Virginia, Appalachia, Appalachia Coal Decline, Tennessee, Coal Industry, West Virginia, Coal Production, Appalachian Mountains, Obama Administration, Kentucky, Arch Coal, Department of Energy, Coal Mining, Coal, Green News

GARRETT, Ky. -- When business screeched to a halt at Jerry Howard's eastern Kentucky mine engineering company two years ago, he decided to call it qui...

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RFK, Jr. Says Massey Coal 'Offensive To The Public Interest'

The Huffington Post | James Gerken | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Energy, Massey Energy, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Massey, Coal Industry, West Virginia, Free Speech for People, Coal, Appalachia, Video, Mountaintop Removal, Appalachian Voices, Coal Mining, Coal Mines, Green News

Should a corporation with a track record of frequent legal violations be allowed to operate? Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Free Speech For People say no....

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Dave Jamieson

How One Miner Took On Big Coal

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Energy, Massey Energy, Miners, Big Coal, Regulation, Arch Coal, Sago Mine, Coal Lobby, Msha, Coal Miners, Appalachia, Video, Charles Scott Howard, Kentucky, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Mining-Safety, George Miller, Upper Big Branch Mine, Tony Oppegard, National Mining Association, Politics News

WHITESBURG, Ky. -- On a July morning four years ago, Charles Scott Howard left his home in the mountains of Southeastern Kentucky and drove his pickup...

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Can Ethnic Pride Translate into Hatred?

Daniel Cubias | Posted 11.01.2011

Read More: Latinos, Latino, Ethnicity, Hispanic, St. Patrick?S Day, Hispanics, Prejudice, Race, Racial Warfare, German, Appalachia, Education, Racism, Ethnic Pride, Discrimination, Tribalism, Irish, Racial Bigotry, Bigotry, Advocacy, Latino Voices News
Daniel Cubias

Does being an activist for your own race mean discriminating against others?

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Kentucky Journey

Brad Rothschild | Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: Appalachian Mountains, Kt, Coal Mining Towns, Kentucky, Appalachia, Mcroberts Kentucky, Coal Mining, Business News
Brad Rothschild

My real reason for going to Kentucky was because I wanted to see what happens when a town outlives its usefulness to the global economy; to get a better grasp of human cost of the decline of American industry.

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Dear Soledad: Appalachian Leaders Respond to CNN's Blair Mountain Special on Mountaintop Removal

Jeff Biggers | Posted 10.15.2011

Read More: Appalachia, Lisa Jackson, Dirty Coal, Soledad O'Brien, Mining, Cnn, President Obama, Epa, Big Coal, Mountaintop Removal, Joe Manchin, Coal, Green News
Jeff Biggers

If O'Brien and CNN wish to tell the real battle of Blair Mountain, they owe it to their viewers -- and the affected residents living under the fallout of mountaintop removal operations in central Appalachia -- to come back and tell the other side.

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'Green News Report' - August 4, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 10.04.2011

Read More: Green Jobs, Fracking, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green Business, Green News Report, Pollution, Coal, Drought, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Greenhouse Gases, Clean Water Act, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Solar Power, Global Warming, Energy, Fukushima, Gasoline, Carbon Emissions, Environmentalists, Nuclear Power, Environmentalism, Appalachia, Energy Efficiency, Carbon Tax, BRAD BLOG, Green News, Heat, Sustainability, Fox News, Endangered Species, Japan, Hydraulic Fracturing, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

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

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'Green News Report' - August 2, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 10.02.2011

Read More: Green Jobs, Fracking, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green Business, Green News Report, Pollution, Coal, Drought, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Greenhouse Gases, Clean Water Act, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Solar Power, Global Warming, Energy, Fukushima, Gasoline, Carbon Emissions, Environmentalists, Nuclear Power, Environmentalism, Appalachia, Energy Efficiency, Carbon Tax, BRAD BLOG, Heat, Green News, Sustainability, Fox News, Endangered Species, Japan, Hydraulic Fracturing, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

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

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'Green News Report' - July 28, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Norway Terrorist Attacks, Green Jobs, Fracking, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green Business, Green News Report, Pollution, Coal, Drought, Marcellus Shale, Rising Sea Level, Norway, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Greenhouse Gases, Clean Water Act, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Solar Power, Global Warming, Pcbs, Bp, Energy, Poverty, Fukushima, Gasoline, Rush Limbaugh, Carbon Emissions, Environmentalists, Nuclear Power, Utilities, Environmentalism, Arctic, Appalachia, Energy Efficiency, Carbon Tax, BRAD BLOG, Smart Grid, Heat, Green News, Sustainability, Fox News, Endangered Species, Japan, Hydraulic Fracturing, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

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

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Breaking: New Study Links Mountaintop Removal to 60,000 Additional Cancer Cases

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Appalachia, Mountaintop Removal, Dirty Coal, Joe Manchin, Coal, Bo Webb, Lisa Jackson, Epa, President Obama, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Among the 1.2 million American citizens living in mountaintop removal mining counties in central Appalachia, an additional 60,000 cases of cancer are directly linked to the federally sanctioned strip-mining practice.

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