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Don Blankenship: Public Officials' Emails Are Private, State Supreme Court Rules

AP | TOM BREEN | Posted 11.13.2009 | Technology

Read More: Don Blankenship, Maynard Blankenship, West Virginia Supreme Court, Supreme Court, Public Email Private, Elliott Spike Maynard, Elliott Maynard, E-Mails Private, Public Officials Email, Technology News

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The state Supreme Court has ruled that public officials and public employees can keep their personal e-mails private. The c...

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Coal Baron Don Blankenship's Crazy Talk on Climate Change

Rob Perks | Posted 09.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate, Massey, Coal, Mtr, Dirty Coal, Dirty Energy, Clean Energy, Dirty Fuels, Don Blankenship, Climate Change, Mountaintop Mining, Climate Legislation, Mountaintop Removal, Climate Bill, Coal Mining, Global Warming, Green News
Rob Perks

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.

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

Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.18.2009 | 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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Labor Day of Infamy: Who Killed the Jobs of Van Jones and Coal Miners?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Umwa, Appalachia, Dirty Coal, Massey Energy, Don Blankenship, President Barack Obama, Green Energy, Van Jones, Coal, Glenn Beck, Green News
Jeff Biggers

How easy to be cynical on this Labor Day, and declare it a day that will live in infamy for coal miners and coalfield residents and green job advocates across the nation.

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Verizon Wireless Invites Backlash by Supporting Controversial Climate Denier Rally

Rob Perks | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Nrdc, Massey Energy, Don Blankenship, Mountaintop Removal, Facebook, Coal, Verizon Wireless, Green News
Rob Perks

No amount of spinning will help Verizon Wireless. But the company can dig itself out of this hole simply by admitting its mistake and immediately withdrawing its support for the rally.

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Sounds of Silence in Appalachia: MTR Blasting Temporarily Halted

Jerry Cope | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Massey Energy, Civil Disobedience, Don Blankenship, West-Virginia-Department-of-Environmental-Protection, Mountaintop Removal, Epa, West Virginia, Obama Administration, Climate Change, Joe Manchin, Coal Mining, Global Warming, Green News
Jerry Cope

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.

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West Virginia Tourists Beware: Violence Escalates in Coalfields

Dave Cooper | Posted 08.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Ken Hechler, Don Blankenship, West Virginia, Mountaintop Removal, Manchin, Coal, Massey, Kayford, Mattea, Hansen, Hannah, Green News
Dave Cooper

Violence against environmental activists seems almost inevitable in the coalfields this summer as West Virginia politicians ignore the tense situation.

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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
Jerry Cope

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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Arrested in West Virginia -- A First-Person Account

Michael Brune | Posted 07.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Green Jobs, Don Blankenship, Civil Disobedience, Mountaintop Removal, Massey Energy Company, Dr. James Hansen, Coal River Wind Project, Coal River Mountain, Clean Energy Economy, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Coal, Green News
Michael Brune

Appalachia -- one of the few places in the country where both the cause of climate change and its solution can be found in the same location. Mountaintop removal isn't just a local issue, it's an American problem.

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Coal Exec Challenges Climate Scientist To Debate (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 07.21.2009 | Green

Read More: James Hansen, Don Blankenship, Green News

Massey Energy President Don Blankenship challenged one of the world's top climate experts to a debate on global warming this week after learning NASA ...

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The Best Judge $3 Million Can Buy

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Coal, Don Blankenship, Matt Lauer, The Appeal, Judges, West Virginia, John Grisham, Today Show, Scalia, Alito, Roberts, Thomas, Politics News
Blake Fleetwood

The US Supreme Court ruling earlier this week gives a scary look at how justice in America is routinely bought and sold.

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Big Coal CEO's Anti-Environment Screed Caught on Tape

Kevin Grandia | Posted 01.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Massey Energy Company, Don Blankenship, Green News
Kevin Grandia

Don Blankenship seems to either be a very confrontational sort of person or to have completely jumped the shark by the looks of this video footage released today by NRDC.

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Communists in Charleston, WV!

Carl Pope | Posted 01.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Environment, Energy, Global Warming, Massey Coal, Mccarthyism, Charleston Gazette, Don Blankenship, Politics News
Carl Pope

It might surprise you to learn that Charleston, West Virginia, is a hotbed of communist activity and that the leader of the Marxist cell here is the editor of the Charleston Gazette, James A. Haught.

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