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Call Now: Verizon Wireless Sponsors Union-Busting Mountaintop Removal Rally?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Massey Energy, Dirty Coal, Labor Day, United Mine Workers, Ted Nugent, Sean Hannity, President Barack Obama, Climate Change, Communication Workers of America, Verizon Wireless, Environmental Defense Fund, Mountaintop Removal, Coal, West Virginia, Green News

Verizon and a British Lord are joining forces to deny climate change and fight unions.

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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

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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EPA Sues Power Company Over Six Illinois Coal-Burning Plants

Chicago Tribune | Michael Hawthorne | Posted 09.28.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Stopping Coal Power Plants, Dirty Coal, Midwest Generation, Coal, Lisa Madigan, Epa, Chicago News

From the outside, the power plant that towers above Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood looks like a sooty relic from the early part of the last century....

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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

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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Mountaintop Removal: FAIL

Rob Perks | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Mountaintopremoval, Kentucky, Westvirginia, Reclamation, Tennessee, Dirty Coal, Coal Mining, Green News

It remains nearly impossible to functionally replace a mountain whose ecological niche was 400 million years in the making.

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Fearless Tree-Sit in Coal Blasting Area Calls Out Failed Regulations

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Tree, Dirty Coal, President Barack Obama, Blasting, Nancy Sutley, Mountaintop Removal, Lisa Jackson, Ken Salazar, Ceq, Forests, Coal, Osmre, Green News

In a stunning blow to mountaintop removal blasting operations in the Coal River Valley of West Virginia this morning, two fearless protesters scaled massive trees and unfurled banners.

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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

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

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

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VICTORY: Dynegy Out of the New Coal Business

Bruce Nilles | Posted 09.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Dirty Coal, Coal, Blackstore Group, Sierra Club, Clean Up Dynergy, Georgia, Dynergy, Green News

Three years ago Dynegy launched plans to partner with LS Power and become the largest new developer of coal-fired power plants. Yesterday Dynegy officially terminated those plans.

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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

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

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Townhall Mobs -- Brought to You by Big Oil and Dirty Coal

Josh Dorner | Posted 09.07.2009 | Green

There's considerable evidence that these astroturf corporate lobbying operations are also trying to derail clean energy jobs legislation.

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Let Them Eat Coal Ash: OSM Nominee Pizarchik Must Be Stopped Now

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Dirty Coal, Senate Hearing, Mountaintop Removal, President Barack Obama, Clean Energy, Ken Salazar, Lisa Jackson, Coal, Osm, Green News

The Obama's administration's OSM nomination of Pizarchik, the seemingly good-natured and well-meaning Pennsylvania Director of the Bureau of Mining and Reclamation, is a colossal error.

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JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon: Time to Walk the Talk on Coal

Bruce Nilles | Posted 09.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Dirty Coal, Massey Energy, JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, Finance, Coal, Sierra Club, Green News

JPMorgan Chase is pouring billions of dollars into dirty coal plant projects -- projects that would dramatically increase global warming pollution and ensure runaway global warming.

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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

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

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Publishing Michigan to Granholm: We Want Clean Energy

Bruce Nilles | Posted 08.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Gov. Granholm, Dirty Coal, Clean Energy, Coal, Michigan, Governor Jennifer Granholm, Environment, Environmentalism, Green News

Michigan residents want Governor Granholm to get this message loud and clear: No more coal. We want clean energy!

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Letter From Europe: Foreign Disbelief of Topless America

Jeff Biggers | Posted 08.28.2009 | Green

Read More: G8, Appalachia, Dirty Coal, Mountaintop Removal, . President Barack Obama, Wind, Ireland, Italy, Green Energy, Film, Coal, Green News

It's hard for any foreigner to believe that President Obama has quietly acquiesced to the marketing and machinations of Big Coal.

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Abetting Historicide: Does Nancy Sutley's Regulatory Banter Cover Up Crimes Against Coalfield Residents?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 08.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Department of Homeland Security, Dirty Coal, Council on Environmental Quality, Mountaintop Removal, Edward Abbey, President Barack Obama, Nancy Sutley, Coal, Green News

Are Obama's well-meaning but irresolute environmental administrators abetting the crimes of human rights violations and historicide?

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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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Climate Follies: Bankrolling Dirty Power in Developing Countries

Mindy S. Lubber | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Dirty Coal, Climate Change, Coal, Climate Bill, Asian Development Bank, World Bank, Green News

While the industrialized world is struggling to cut its emissions, it is simultaneously bankrolling the construction of thousands of megawatts of new coal-fired power in developing countries.

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Urgent July 4th Declaration: Bo Webb to Al Gore: Stand with Me at Ground Zero for Climate Change

Jeff Biggers | Posted 08.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Dirty Coal, Carol Browner, Carbon Emissions, Clean Coal, Climate Change, President Barack Obama, Al Gore, Aces, Lisa Jackson, Nancy Sutley, Coal, Green News

If we are to be serious about addressing the "inconvenient truth," then banning mountaintop removal is a logical and required first step in capturing carbon and saving our forests.

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Historic Senate Hearings on Clean Water Protection Act Today: We All Live Downstream

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Ken Hechler, Maria Gunnoe, Us Sen. Benjamin Carden, Dirty Coal, Clean Water Protection Act, West Virginia, Kentucky, Mountaintop Removal, Senator Robert Byrd, Goldman Prize, Coal, Clean Water Act, Green News

Over 1,300 miles of streams have been sullied and jammed by mountaintop removal operations. Over 500 mountains have been blown to bits.

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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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Clean Coal Knee-Capping: Secretary Chu Makes $1 Billion Down Payment For More Dirty Coal

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Department of Energy, Dirty Coal, Clean Coal, Carol Browner, Steven Chu, Futuregen, Coal, Green News

A lot of hot air has been emitted on the dangerous oxymoron of "clean coal. The truth is that carbon capture and storage technology is still in its experimental phase

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UPDATE: Coalfield Advocates Respond to Mountaintop Removal Crimes and Misdemeanors

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Dirty Coal, President Jimmy Carter, Mountaintop Removal, Crime, President Barack Obama, Department of Interior, Vice President Al Gore, Lisa Jackson, Ceq, Coal, Green News

Failed mining policy has destroyed our nation's natural heritage, ripped out the roots of the Appalachian culture, and left historic mountain communities in poverty and ruin. And now Obama only wants to "regulate" it.

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