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Inside the Governor's Office: With Wendell Berry and Other Anti-Mountaintop Removal Protestors

Lisa Bennett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Silas House, Epa, Dirty Coal, Wendell Berry, Coal, Teri Blanton, Mountaintop Removal, Green News, Big Coal, Kentucky, Kftc, Clean Coal, Green News
Lisa Bennett

FRANKFORT, KY, Feb. 11, 2011 -- Wendell Berry, Kentucky's most famous author and one of America's most respected essayists, is among sixteen protester...

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LIVE UPDATES FROM HISTORIC KY SIT-IN: Wendell Berry, Scholars Join Retired Coal Miner, Residents in Kentucky Rising at Capitol (Photos)

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dirty Coal, Silas House, Wendell Berry, Teri Blanton, Mountaintop Removal, Clean Coal, Big Coal, Nrdc, President Obama, Epa, Kentucky, Kftc, Green News
Jeff Biggers

The Kentucky activists declared their intent "to remain in his office until the governor agrees to stop the poisoning of Kentucky's land, water, and people by mountaintop removal; or until he chooses to have the citizens physically removed."

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SOS: Day 12,065 of Mountaintop Removal Disaster: Appalachia is Rising (Again)

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Department of Interior, Appalachia, Jimmy Carter, Dirty Coal, Osmre, Nrdc, Big Coal, Epa, President Obama, Renewable Energy, Mountaintop Removal, Lisa Jackson, Kftc, Coal, Green News
Jeff Biggers

It was on this day in 1977 a liberal president who campaigned to end the strip-mining wars signed the admittedly "watered down" Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act as an act of compromise.

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