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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

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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West Virginia Supreme Court Chooses Coal Over Children

Josh Nelson | Posted 07.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Massey Energy, Coal, Coal Slurry, West Virginia, Coal Sludge, Massey Energy Company, Clean Energy, Marsh Fork Elementary, Global Warming, Green Energy, Energy, Climate Change, Green News

West Virginia loves coal. That became painfully obvious last week when the state's Democratic governor signed a resolution making the dirtiest rock on the planet the official state rock.

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Fighting Climate Change: Not an Obligation, an Opportunity

Michael Brune | Posted 01.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Wind Power, Solar Energy, Mountaintop Removal, Coal, Solar Power, Appalachia, Alternative Energy, West Virginia, Massey Energy Company, Coal River Wind Project, Coal River Mountain, Coal River Mountain Watch, Sustainable Energy, Moutain Top Removal, MTR, Green News

The availability and affordability of renewable energy solutions show that further investments in dirty energy projects such as mountaintop removal are just outdated and unnecessary.

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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

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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A War on the Future

Carl Pope | Posted 10.13.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Massey Coal, Massey Energy Company, Joe Manchin, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Coal, Green News

What kind of society makes it easier to get a permit to blow up a mountain than to get one to erect a wind mill on top of it? Big Carbon is making war on our future, and we are letting them.

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Bees, Trees, Wind and Dynamite

Kevin Grandia | Posted 10.11.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Energy, Massey Energy Company, Clean Coal, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Coal, West Virginia, Green News

As renewable energy technology becomes cheaper and more efficient, coal companies are finding it a lot more difficult to justify such crude and environmentally disastrous techniques for powering America.

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