Bomb Appalachia (and Face the Music)
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.
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.
Matt Wasson | Posted 10.24.2009 | Green
The fate of Coal River Mountain is America's energy future. If the coal companies can mine there, they can do anything they want.
Rob Perks | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green
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.
Rob Perks | Posted 09.29.2009 | Green
Perhaps Blankenship's extreme wealth is why Forbes magazine decided to interview him. But what shines through more than anything is Blankenship's extreme anti-environmental worldview.
Dave Cooper | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
What happens when coal companies flatten the mountains directly above Appalachian communities?
Jerry Cope | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green
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.
Jerry Cope | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green
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.
Rob Perks | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green
It remains nearly impossible to functionally replace a mountain whose ecological niche was 400 million years in the making.
Dan Shapley | Posted 09.10.2009 | Green
Nowhere has the debate between the advocates of tourism and strip-mining been as fever-pitched as in Tennessee. Please plan a vacation there!
greenbiz.com | Tilde Herrera, July 13, 2009 | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green
The Intermountain Power Agency (IPA) announced Thursday it has given up plans to build an additional coal-fired unit. Its biggest customer -- the city...
Jerry Cope | Posted 07.30.2009 | Green
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.
Carl Pope | Posted 07.25.2009 | Green
The defense of mountaintop-removal mining -- as formerly with strip-mining -- is that the economy of Appalachia depends on it. This canard now has been solidly rebutted.
David Roberts | Posted 06.14.2009 | Green
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.
Julien Nitzberg | Posted 05.25.2009 | Entertainment
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.
AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 04.24.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency put hundreds of mountaintop coal-mining permits on hold Tuesday to evaluate the projects' impac...
Rob Perks | Posted 04.18.2009 | Green
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.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 04.13.2009 | Chicago
While Durbin's eyes are on the prize of "38 billion tons of coal" that sit under our feet in the Illinois coal basin, he is missing the renewable energy revolution that is sweeping the rest of the nation.
Jerry Cope | Posted 04.05.2009 | Green
March 2nd was historic -- a shining example of what citizens in a democracy can achieve when united in a common cause: eliminating coal-fired power plants in the US.
Peter Lehner | Posted 03.02.2009 | Green
We also need to cap carbon and make coal pay its true price so that clean energy can compete with it. NRDC will be working on all of that.
npr.org | By Elizabeth Shogren | Posted 02.17.2009 | Green
There might not be a better place to contemplate the impact of President Bush's environmental legacy than Larry Gibson's mountain in southern West Vir...
David Sassoon | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green
There are 1300 hundred dumps across the country similar to the one in Tennessee. It's become painfully clear yet again that there's no such thing as clean coal, just Mean Coal.
Kate Beale | Posted 02.02.2009 | Green
Seeking legal rights for nature appears pragmatic: just witness how corporations have flourished enjoying the same legal status. At first glance it seems counterintuitive, but perhaps it shouldn't.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 01.30.2009 | Green
When wildfires consume beautiful homes in California, it headlines the evening news. But when thousands of people go without water for weeks in Appalachia, it's not "newsworthy."
Jeff Biggers | Posted 12.26.2008 | Green
Dismissing an overwhelming majority of West Virginian support for clean energy, Governor Manchin granted a mining permit revision for proposed mountaintop removal of Coal River Mt.
Simran Sethi | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green
Clean coal is a lie. The catch-all term is used by politicians and coal advocates alike to lull the American public into complacency.
Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green