Appalachia

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Jimmy Carter's Next Urgent Mission: Polarized Appalachian Coalfields

Jeff Biggers | Posted 08.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Mountaintop Removal, Dirty Coal, Green Jobs, Appalachia, Carol Browner, EPA; Lisa Jackson, President Barack Obama, Former President Jimmy Carter, Department of Interior, Big Coal, Van Jones, Green News

Mountaintop removal has ripped out the roots of the Appalachian culture, and depopulated and left historic mountain communities in poverty and ruin.

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Army Corps Suspends Streamlined Permits for Mountaintop Removal

Rob Perks | Posted 08.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Mountaintopremoval, Appalachia, Obama, Dirtycoal, Appalachiarestorationact, Mtr, Mountaintopmining, Green News

The true test of the administration's new policy toward mountaintop removal is whether rigorous regulatory review will deliver on the promise of greater environmental protection.

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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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Appalachia's Own 'Resource Curse'?

Rob Perks | Posted 08.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Mountaintopremoval, Kentucky, Appalachia, Westvirginia, Dirtycoal, Mtr, Mountaintopmining, Green News

Coalfield communities "are weaker than the rest of the state, weaker than the rest of the region, and weaker than the rest of the nation," says West Virginia University researcher Michael Hendryx.

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Almost Hell West Virginia; Where Is The Obama Administration?

Jerry Cope | Posted 07.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Massey Energy, Obama Appalachia, Marsh-Fork-Elementary, Civil Disobedience, Epa, Daryl Hannah, Obama Administration, Appalachia, Ecocide, Mountaintop Removal, West-Virginia-Department-of-Environmental-Protection, Don Blankenship, Disasters, Coal River Mountain, James Hansen, Coal River Mountain Watch, Toxic Waste, Federal Office of Surface Mining, Coal Mining, Massey Coal, Mtr, Mike Brune, Ran, Rainforest Action Network, Coal River Valley, Green News

Coal mining is the Appalachians is the great American tragedy, and every citizen of this country should be ashamed and horrified that we are collectively allowing this to happen.

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Top 10 List: Why President Obama Must Visit Appalachia and Launch War for Green Jobs

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Appalachia, Lisa Jackson, Poverty, Van Jones, Barack Obama, Green Jobs, Epa, Nancy Sutley, Mountaintop Removal, Coal, Dailykos, Green News

It is almost beyond belief that President Obama, CEQ chief Nancy Sutley and EPA head Lisa Jackson have made no attempt to visit actual mining sites under their jurisdiction.

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Updated:VIDEO: Nonviolent Goldman Prize Winner Attacked by Massey Supporter: 94-Year-Old Hechler, Hannah, Hansen Arrested at Coal River

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Appalachia, Lisa Jackson, Dirty Coal, Barack Obama, Epa, Ken Hechler, Mountaintop Removal, Daryl Hannah, James Hansen, Coal, Daryl Hannah Arrested, Daryl Hannah Coal River, Daryl Hannah Arrest, Daryl Hannah Arrested in West Viginia, Green News

Daryl Hannah, NASA's celebrated climate scientist James Hansen, and 94-year-old Ken Hechler, the legendary congressman and coal miner hero were arrested in a non-violent protest in West Virginia.

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Update on Today's Daring Dragline Protest, Launches 7 Days That Will Shake Mountaintop Removal Operations

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Appalachia, Coal River, Dirty Coal, Judy Bonds, Ken Hchler, Ran, James Hansen, Mountaintop Removal, Coal, Darryl Hannah, Green News

Four daring protesters accomplished something today that no high ranking member in the Obama administration has ever bothered to do.

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Mixed Bag on MTR Coal Mining Decision From Obama Administration

Bruce Nilles | Posted 07.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Mtr, Coal, Sierra Club, Obama Administration, Appalachia, Clean Water Act, Green News

If the Obama administration allows hundreds of mountaintop-removal coal mining permits to go forward, it will result in the outright destruction of hundreds of miles of streams and forests in Appalachia.

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Should Wilderness Society Strip US Rep. Nick Rahall of the Ansel Adams Award?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Appalachia, Dirty Coal, Nick Rahall, Mo Udall, House Natural Resources Committee, Wilderness Society, Flooding, Mountaintop Removal, Edward Abbey, Lisa Jackson, Jack Spadaro, Coal, Environmental Protection, Smcra, Green News

Rahall has turned his back on the mountains and mountaineers while more than 3.5 million pounds of ammonium nitrate/fuel oil explosives have ripped across the wilderness of his state every day.

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Rep. Hechler to President Obama: Time for a Harry S. Truman Moment in the Coalfields

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Ken Hechler, Harry S. Truman, Massey Energy, Dirty Coal, Appalachia, Coal Sludge, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President Barack Obama, Mountaintop Removal, Congress, TVA Disaster, Coal, Green News

Standing at the Massey Energy mountaintop removal operation last month, the 94-year-old Hechler showed no sign of retreating on this egregious violation of human rights and the environment.

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Celebrating the Blessings of a Coal-Based Economy: Who Needs Teeth When You've Got Cheap Power?

David Roberts | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Coal Plants, Appalachia, Illiteracy, Poverty, West Virginia, Joe Manchin, Obesity, Pollution, Coal, Green News

Gov. Joe Manchin has declared coal to be the state rock of West Virginia. But why should her stop there? Having a coal-based economy has given his state so many other reasons to celebrate!

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Wild and Wonderful at Tribeca

Julien Nitzberg | Posted 05.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Appalachia, Tribeca Film Festival, Tribeca Documentary, Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia, Documentaries, Coal Mining, Entertainment News

Our movie deals with some very serious issues like the destructiveness of the mining industry and entitlement culture but we also have a lot of fun drug use, gun shooting, and gratuitous nudity.

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Tibet: Polar Perspectives. Can Both Sides Be Heard?

Jim Luce | Posted 05.21.2009 | World

Read More: Serfs, Hanificiation, East Asian Studies Major, India, Taiwan, Mandarin, Family Planning, Dalai Lama, Colonialization, Puritans, Poverty, Native American, Han Chinese, Togo, Hong Kong, Ghana, Theocracy, Iran, Tibet, Priest Class, Anti-Chinese, Appalachia, Slaves, Singapore, U.S. Healthcare System, Ewe, Buddhist Clergy, Birth Control, Middle Kingdom, Buddhism, Separation of Church and State, Sharia, Thomas Friedman, World News

The truth about Tibet is perhaps more nuanced than it has been presented by either side of the highly polarized debate.

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Green Jobs the Cure for Appalachia's Blues

Rob Perks | Posted 05.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Mountaintopremoval, Appalachia, Dirtycoal, Mtr, Mountaintopmining, Kentucky, Hawaii, Coal, Happiness, Green News

Kentuckian Erik Reece postulates an interesting theory about the source of all the unhappiness in Kentucky and Virginia: coal.

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Music Stars on Mountaintop Removal: Keep the 'Country' in Country Music

Rob Perks | Posted 05.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Appalachia, Tennessee, Emmylouharris, Mountaintopremoval, Mtr, Big Kenny, Dirtycoal, Kathymattea, Cumberland, Mountaintopmining, Green News

More that a million acres of Appalachia already have been flattened and over 1,000 miles of streams have been polluted or destroyed by mountaintop removal coal mining.

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Fools on Mountaintop

Rob Perks | Posted 05.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Mountaintopremoval, Appalachia, Mtr, Dirtycoal, Mtmcoalition, Mountaintopmining, Aprilfools, Green News

Mountaintop removal leaves Appalachian peaks leveled and left lifeless by the most devastating and senseless stip mining method ever devised. More like moonscapes than mountains.

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Making Sense of EPA's Mountaintop Removal Action

Rob Perks | Posted 04.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Mountaintopremoval, Appalachia, Mtr, Dirtycoal, Mountaintopmining, Epa, Green News

Yesterday was a wild ride on the mountaintop removal front, with many people suffering whiplash from EPA's dueling press releases.

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Van Jones: Talk to Eric Mathis About Green Jobs, Not Coal Welfare, in Appalachia

Jeff Biggers | Posted 04.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Appalachia, Dirty Coal, Van Jones, Barack Obama, Green Jobs, Robert Byrd, Green Energy, Joe Manchin, Coal, Green News

Eric Mathis, a scrappy young economist in the Appalachian coalfields, is putting together one of the most dynamic green jobs consortiums in the country.

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No More Mountaintop Removal

Rob Perks | Posted 04.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Dirty Coal, Appalachia, Clean Water Protection Act, Mountaintop Mining, Mountaintop Removal, Mtr, Coal, Coal Mining, Mountains, Energy, Cleaner Coal, Environmental Protection, Epa, Environmental Protection Agency, Mining, Clean Water Act, Green News

This week, more than 150 activists from around the country walked the halls of Congress, urging their elected leaders to end mountaintop removal coal mining.

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The Republican Party's Death Wish

Paul Jenkins | Posted 04.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mark Sanford, Liberal Party, Ronald Reagan, Economy, George W. Bush, Kentucky Jim Bunning, Democratic Party, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gary Bauer, Sarah Palin, Same-Sex Marriage, California, Charlie Crist, Economic Stimulus Package, Rnc, Unemployment, Mike Huckabee, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Labour Party, US Chamber of Commerce, Mississippi, Republican Party, Great Depression, Arlen Specter, Michael Steele, Abortion, John McCain, Karl Rove, Florida, Appalachia, Rush Limbaugh, Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, Mitt Romney, Alabama, Texas, Congress, Pennsylvania, Whig Party, Civil Unions, Barack Obama, Deep South, Religion, Independents, Jon Huntsman, Race Issues, Great Britain, Marxism, Tom Delay, South Carolina, Watergate, Utah, Gay Issues, Politics News

We have yet to hear a single realistic scenario from a top Republican that would outline how and when the country could move forward from its current meltdown.

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Letter From a Mountaineer to President Obama

Dave Cooper | Posted 03.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Appalachia, Coal Sludge, Environmental Policy, Mountaintop Coal Removal, Clean Coal, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Health, President Obama, Environment, Mountaintop Removal, Pollution, Coal, Green News

During your presidential campaign, you declared: "We have to find more environmentally sound ways of mining coal than simply blowing the tops off mountains." That time is now. Or never.

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Holder, Race and Obama's 10% of the White Alabama Vote

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Al Gore, Brooklyn, George W. Bush, Oregon, Colorado, Race, Missouri, Dc, Eric Holder, Rural Issues, Virginia, New Jersey, Oklahoma, John Kerry, Racism, Republican Party, Mississippi, Suffolk County, North Carolina, African-American Issues, Alabama, Massachusetts, Congress, Kendrick Meek, Minnesota, New York, Barack Obama, Education, Mexican-American Issues, South, Michigan, Arkansas, Tennessee, Jimmy Carter, Hillary Clinton, Senate, New Orleans, Palm Beach, Morris County, Washington, Immigration, Democratic Party, Pittsburgh, Artur Davis, California, Nashville, Jewish Issues, New Hampshire, Ohio, Boca Raton, Long Island, Northeast, Philadelphia, Anthony Weiner, Latino Issues, Florida, John McCain, Appalachia, South Central US, St. Louis, Kamala Harris, Louisiana, Montgomery County, Birmingham, Presidential Election, Kentucky, Texas, Queens, Pennsylvania, New York City, Deep South, Young Voters, Memphis, Governors, Cleveland, Iowa, Georgia, South Carolina, San Francisco, White Voters, Rnc, Michael Steele, Broward, Hip Hop, Duluth, Politics News

The complicated picture of how America came to vote for its first black president reflects the country's multifarious attitude towards race

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Diane Sawyer: Talk to Ashley Judd, Don't Overlook the 800-LB Gorilla on 20/20

Jeff Biggers | Posted 03.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Silas House, Ashley Judd, Appalachia, Abc-Tv, Kentucky, Mountaintop Removal, Drug Abuse, Children of the Mountains, Strip Mining, Diane Sawyer, Poverty, Media News

Sawyer's special report failed to notice the 800-pound gorilla in the room: Mountaintop removal strip mining that has devastated eastern Kentucky's communities and economy.

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Top 5 Myths About Coal

Tara Lohan | Posted 03.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Appalachia, Coal Myths, Mountaintop Removal, Clean Coal, Coal, Mining, Obama Environment, Obama Coal, Green News

The backbone of the "clean coal" rhetoric is based on several layers of lies and misinformation. The first is the idea that there is a technology that we have now to make coal clean.

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