Heads Up! Massey Energy Now Blasting Coal River Mountain
The forecast in Coal River, W.V. now calls for heavy boulders and flying debris. Climate scientist James Hansen has declared it "ground zero in the fight against climate change".
The forecast in Coal River, W.V. now calls for heavy boulders and flying debris. Climate scientist James Hansen has declared it "ground zero in the fight against climate change".
Posted 10.20.2009 | Entertainment
Onscreen stripteases are generally memorable, whether they are worthy of an Oscar nod (Marisa Tomei in 'The Wrestler') or become the stuff of mockery ...
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 09.15.2009 | Green
After years of climate change denial, a consortium of energy industry giants led by ExxonMobil and Massey Energy are launching a global campaign to provide island nations with equipment to combat rising sea levels.
Dave Cooper | Posted 08.07.2009 | Green
Irate coal miners disrupted the annual 4th of July community picnic atop Larry Gibson's Kayford Mountain, the only mountain left in the area that has not been decapitated for coal.
Daryl Hannah | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green
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?
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.
AP | TIM HUBER | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green
NAOMA, W.Va. — Actress Darryl Hannah, NASA scientist James Hansen and other mountaintop removal mining opponents have been arrested during a pro...
Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green
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.
Marissa Bronfman | Posted 07.09.2009 | Green
Home is a visual masterpiece, a compilation of incredible aerial shots that dramatize the staggering statistics of environmental degradation and peril that many of us are already fairly familiar with.
Jack Hidary | Posted 04.23.2009 | Green
Here is Daryl Hannah, actor and activist, prepping for the coal power plant protest in Washington, DC. This plant provides power to the Capitol and other key government buildings.
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.
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 02.07.2009 | Green
Sea Shepherd, the Greenpeace splinter group that sails around Antarctic waters harassing a Japanese whaling fleet in hopes of reducing its whaling act...
TreeHugger.com | Posted 02.05.2009 | Green
Mentioning it a while back when she was being interviewed on TreeHugger, in this video Daryl Hannah ---- TreeHugger's favorite foxy environmentalist -...
AP | ROD McGUIRK | Posted 01.03.2009 | Green
CANBERRA, Australia — A radical conservationist said Wednesday he will not shy away from violent confrontation with Japanese whalers, even thoug...
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 09.27.2008 | Home
The Huffington Post's mini day-spa, the Oasis, is one of the hottest venues in Denver "to see and be seen" -- literally, if watching the more attractive members of the fourth estate get rubbed down on a massage table is your thing.
Huffington Post | Posted 09.26.2008 | Living
Bobby Kennedy stopped by yesterday and shared some thoughts about how he unwinds and re-energizes himself. Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith brought his a...
Olivia Zaleski | Posted 07.15.2008 | Green
Inspired by such high-profile cyclists as Obama, Fey and Einstein, I've set to work amassing a comprehensive archive of 100 people we know, love--perhaps even despise--atop the bike.
Telegraph | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
Hannah's relationships with men have been few - and always low key. Her only recorded boyfriends have been the magician David Blaine, the actor Val Ki...
Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
Third quarter contributions are out, and perhaps more noteworthy than the celebrities who have given are the many who have not. Especially if you cons...
Jerry Cope | Posted 10.27.2009 | Green