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University Of Kentucky Adds "Coal" To The New Basketball Dorm's Name For $7 Million Donation

Posted 10.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Joe Craft, Friends of Coal, University of Kentucky, Coal Dorm UK, Coal, Big Coal, Coal Dorm University of Kentucky, Green News

This afternoon, the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees voted 16-3 to approve the proposal for the new dorm, which will be named the "Wildcat Coa...

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It's Time For Mountaintop Removal To Stop

Gloria Reuben | Posted 10.27.2009 | Impact

Read More: Appalachia Coal, Appalachia, Dirty Coal, Mountaintop Removal, Coal, Coal Industry, Big Coal, Impact News
Gloria Reuben

Big coal has busted up the unions, impoverished communities, and lined the pockets of state politicians and judges. It's time for this to stop.

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Climate Cover-Up: Blockbuster New Book Exposes Anatomy of Denial

Jeff Biggers | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books

Read More: Tar Sands, Al Gore, Climate-Destabilization, John Kerry, President Barack Obama, Big Coal, Kevin Grandia, Climate Change, Climate Deniers, Oil, Canada, DeSmog Blog, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Coal, Jame Loggan, Books News
Jeff Biggers

In the end, unfolding like a chilling and disturbing thriller, Climate Cover-Up is about one of the greatest campaigns of misinformation in our time.

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Big Coal Gone Wild Runs Bizarre "Bandits" Ad, While Appalachia Burns

Jeff Biggers | Posted 10.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Big Coal, Appalachia, Mountaintop Removal, Lisa Jackson, FTC FCC, Faces, K Street Lobby, Inside DC, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Who are the real FACES of the coalfield movement for a sustainable and diversified economy, clean energy jobs, and the preservation of the historic Appalachian communities?

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The Hanged Census Worker: Why Appalachia Hates Feds

Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Whiskey Rebellion, Barter System, Stockholder, Marijuana, Prohibition, Feds, Newport, Civil War, Infrastructure, Moonbow, Grass, Occupational Safety, Nancy Pelosi, Environmental Movements, Coal Mine, Right to Vote, Mohawk, Lawless, Bill Tweed, Boss System, Indefeasible, Beverly Hillbillies, Hung, Ca, Louisville, George Washington, Appalachian, Civic, Tennessee, Census Worker, Mountaintop Removal, New York City Boss William Tweed, Civil Rights, Census Taker, Mystery, Kentucky Constitution, Second American Revolution, Food Safety, Pot, U.S. Constitution, Pittsburgh, Public School System, Declaration of Independence, Indiana Constitution, Cumberland Plateau, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Inalienable, Daniel Boone National Forest, Bill Sparkman, Bluegrass, Ohio, Slavery, Lexington, Illinois, Coalmine, Federal Agents, Women’s, Appalachia, Hemp, Public Health, Daniel Boone U.S. Congress, Irish Immigrants, Democracy, Middle Class Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania, Mountain, Capitalism, Bossism, Meth, Consumer, Murder, Labor, Southeastern Kentucky, Prison, Oxycontin, Big Coal, 1791, Fbi, Self-Organizing, Indiana, Hanged, Politics News
Gail McGowan Mellor

The U.S. government began its life back in 1791 by shafting the Appalachian area. People have not forgotten it, perhaps because it has yet to stop happening.

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Blood Money: Will WVU Honor Coal Miner Heroes and Students or Violating Dirty Coal Barons?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Robert Murray, University, Dirty Coal, College Endowment, Crandall Canyon Mine Disaster, Don Blankenship, Big Coal, Msha, Mountaintop Removal, Green News
Jeff Biggers

This might be the shameless story of the week: Either that, or West Virginia University president James P. Clements has a lot of explaining to do.

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Cooking up Lies with Dirty Coal

Javier Sierra | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Latinos, Dirty Coal, Green Jobs, American-Climate-and-Security-Act, Big Coal, Creciendo Juntos, Clean Energy, Coal, Naacp, Hispanics and the Environment, Bonner & Associates, Latinos and the Environment, Fake Letters, Health, Asthma, Environment, Mercury, Aces, Climate Bill, Astroturf, Green News
Javier Sierra

Big Coal and Big Oil are determined to cover our ears so we can't hear about the overwhelming advantages of the climate and energy bill, especially for us Latinos.

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Van Jones' Vision of Green Jobs Will Endure

Frances Beinecke | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Fox News, Green Economy, Glenn Beck, Green Jobs Czar, Green Jobs, Van Jones, Big Oil, Big Coal, Green News
Frances Beinecke

The ideas Van so eloquently communicates have become mainstream today, and that is threatening to the far right and their friends at Fox News.

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Stripping Massey: 81-year-old Paratrooper Leads Blockade, Court Hears $85 Million Suit

Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Ground Zero, Caterpillar, Dirty Coal, Civil Disobedience, President Barack Obama, Big Coal, Mountaintop Removal, Direct Action, Coal, Massey, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Massey Energy's brutal attacks on coalfield residents and the judicial system have drawn national criticism.

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Bonner & Associates Never Contacted Rep. Perriello and Several Charities Defrauded In Forged Letter Scandal

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green

Read More: FACES of Coal, Adfero Group, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Astroturf, Bonner and Associates, Lobbying Disclosure Act, Coal Scandals, Big Coal, Coal Lobby, Green News
Brendan DeMelle

This latest evidence of insincerity and misinformation adds to a growing heap of scandals plaguing the coal industry's attempts to weaken action on climate and energy security.

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Now is the Time, Al Gore: Coalfield Uprising and Heroes Need National Defense, Green Jobs

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Al Gore, Dirty Coal, Made in America Tour, Civil Disobedience, Green Jobs, President Barack Obama, Big Coal, Blue Green Alliance, Coal, Van Jones, Epa, Appalachia, Protests, Mountaintop Removal, Repower America, Disney World, Climate Change, Lisa Jackson, Nancy Sutley, Martha's Vineyard, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Now is the time for all good greens, rednecks, social entrepreneurs, hellraisers, Repower America and Al Gore to come to the aid of their fellow citizens in the Appalachian coalfields.

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Outed! Will Obama Meet the Real FACES of Coal or Exposed Big Coal Front?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Appalachia, Dirty Coal, President Barack Obama, Faces, Nancy Sutley, Big Coal, Mountaintop Removal, Lisa Jackson, Ceq, Coal, DeSmog Blog, Fake Coalfield Faces, Coalfield Faces Stock Photos, Green News
Jeff Biggers

From forged letters to fake rallies, the revelations over Big Coal's public relations machinations continue. Today's candidate for the "bogus coal front of the week" is FACES, the Federation for American Coal, Energy and Security.

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Take This Mine And Shove It: India Fights Coal, As Tribe Fights Mountaintop Removal

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green

Read More: London, Dirty Coal, Appalachia, Native People, Survival, Vedanta, Mining, Big Coal, Tribal People, Arundhati Roy, Green, India, Mountaintop Removal, British, Green Energy, Green News
Jeff Biggers

With the blessing of the Indian Supreme Court, Vedanta plans to launch its own version of Appalachia-style mountaintop removal on the Niyamgiri mountain, which the Dongria Kondh tribe worships as a god.

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Hechler's Wake Up Call to Greens and Liberals: Big Coal Denial Calls for Hellraisers

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Ken Hechler, Dirty Coal, Cilv Disobedience, Clean Coal, President Barack Obama, Big Coal, Renewable Energy, Social Movements, Mountaintop Removal, Ken Salazar, Lisa Jackson, Direct Action, Green Energy, Black Lung, Coal, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Tragic lessons in history remind us that the coal crisis and its deniers call for more hellraisers, not compromise.

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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
Jeff Biggers

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

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This Little (Coal-Fired) Light of Mine: Will President Heed 45 Million Prayers?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Catholics, Jews, Christians, President Barack Obama, Dirty Coal, Big Coal, Mountaintop Removal, National Council of Churches, Coal, Protestants, Eco-Justice, Mountaintop Coal Removal, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, O, Green News
Jeff Biggers

August 3rd should be a national day of atonement for our sins against the American mountains and mountaineers.

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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
Jeff Biggers

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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From the Senate to the WV Coalfields, a Pivotal Week for Mountaintop Removal

Bruce Nilles | Posted 07.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Mtr, Sierra Club, Coal, Mountaintop Removal, Big Coal, Green News
Bruce Nilles

This has been a game-changing week in the fight to end mountaintop removal. We will undoubtedly look back on the events of the past few days as a turning point in the struggle to end this incredibly destructive form of coal mining.

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Lobbyists on a Roll: Gutting Reform on Banking, Energy, and Health Care

Arianna Huffington | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Transparency, Congress, Public Option, Big Oil, Lobbying, Big Coal, Lobbyists, Health Care Reform, Special Interests, Energy Policy, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

Remember all that change Americans voted for in November? Well, there's been a change in the plans for change. The detour has come courtesy of a familiar nemesis: DC lobbyists.

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Old Habits Die Hard

Carl Pope | Posted 07.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy Bill, Congressman Jerry Lewis, Coal Ash Spill, Big Coal, Solar Power, Green News
Carl Pope

And although we are seeing real leadership from the Obama administration on coal issues, Big Coal implanted itself deep in the federal bureaucracy during the Bush years, and it still has powerful allies it can call on.

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Big Coal Writing House GOP Talking Points on Clean Energy Bill

Josh Dorner | Posted 07.20.2009 | Green

Read More: House GOP, Waxman-Markey, Aces, Peabody Coal, Big Coal, Clean Energy, Campaign Cash, Peabody Energy, Global Warming, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Dick Cheney, Green News
Josh Dorner

Big Coal is writing the talking points for the House GOP that attack the American Clean Energy & Security Act, coming up for a vote as soon as next week.

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Dick Cheney: The Quintessential Villain of the American West

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Joan Didion, Big Oil, Railroads, Big Coal, Halliburton, George W. Bush, Westerns, Native Americans, Wyoming, Torture, Dick Cheney, Old West, Republicans, Gop, Politics News
Nathan Hegedus

Sadly, in both the Old West and the new West, the big boys in the smoke-filled rooms always need a Dick Cheney.

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Eco-Hitched

Michael DeJong | Posted 06.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Tree-Hugging, John Muir, National Environmental Plan, Cleaning Industrial Complex, Insecticides, Market-Based Cap, Big Coal, President Obama, Energy Legislation, Carbon Pollution, Household Cleaners, Design for the Environment, Clorox Green Works™, Chairmen Waxman and Markey, House Energy and Commerce Committee, ” “Greenwashing” Niche Market, Big Oil, Dirty Coal, Loyal Consumers, Environmental Protection Agency, ” “Green, Clorox Corporation, House Democrats, Chlorine Bleaches, Clorox Net Earnings of $461 Million, Green Economy, Petrochemical-Based, Addicted to Oil, Sierra Club, “Natural, Green Living, Britta, Green News
Michael DeJong

I hope that the Sierra Club continues to support the new proposed bill more enthusiastically than they have the "greenwashing" efforts of their shot-gun bride, Clorox Corporation.

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Debate: Roberts v. 'Clean Coal' Flack Joe Lucas

David Roberts | Posted 06.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Accce, Clean Coal, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Big Coal, Coal Industry, Tennessee Coal Ash, Renewable Energy, Coal, America's Power, Dirty Coal, Joe Lucas, Mountaintop Removal, Tennessee Coal Spill, Coal Ash, Spin, Climate Change, Coal Mining, Green News
David Roberts

There was an online debate between me and Joe Lucas, spokesflack for the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity. When he received my questions, he ran off like a pansy.

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They Are Trying to Steal Your Future

Carl Pope | Posted 06.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Clean Coal, Coal, Big Coal, Waxman-Markey, Peabody Coal, Green News
Carl Pope

Oil and coal are not about to let clean energy get to market without a fight. And Congress is so used to thinking of energy policy in terms of which regions produce which fuels that they are getting a hearing.

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