Larry Gibson was perhaps the single most courageous and inspiring person I've ever met. We were lucky enough to spend a few days filming him on his little sliver of mountain in early spring 2008 for our sustainable solutions documentary, YERT: Your Environmental Road Trip.

Amidst the deepening drought, the summer's fourth heatwave, and the continued western fires, there's something else breaking out: a siege of citizen uprisings at key points around the country all designed to keep coal in the hole, oil in the soil, gas... underground.

The battle over Mountain Top Removal as a method of coal extraction continues to be waged intensely across the mountains and hollows of Appalachia and in Washington DC.

Robert Kennedy, Jr. has carved out a legacy of his own as one of the nation's, and the world's, leading environmental activists and advocates.

Every super hero has a nemesis, and the EPA's Jackson has the 112th Congress under the leadership of John Boehner doing everything it can to stop progress toward fuel efficiency and clean energy.

Last year, the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication conducted a survey of American attitudes on climate change. In one question, it asked who ...

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Within the last couple of weeks in New York City we've had a tornado that ripped through parts of New York and Brooklyn; sudden, intense storms that eerily turned 23rd street into a river; and now hail.

Mountaintop removal has yielded little economic development on reclaimed mine lands in Appalachia, despite the abundance of landscapes available for post-mining economic activity.

The EPA is taking unprecedented action to bring to an end the saga of the infamous Spruce Mine, jamming a stake in the heart of what would have been the largest mountaintop removal project in the history of West Virginia.

Rising above a picturesque valley in southern West Virginia, Coal River Mountain represents the last, best hope for a community resisting the legacy of dirty energy in this part of Appalachia.

Perhaps the biggest challenge in changing human behavior to address the reality of climate change is connecting impacts to every day life.  But t...

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".

Massey Energy, a large coal producer in the country is running political-style attacks in West Virginia claiming that "tree hugging extremists and self-serving politicians" are killing jobs.

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.

We've just learned that the clock has started ticking on more than 80 new mountaintop removal coal mining permits in Appalachia. The EPA may start approving these permits within the next month.

Lax enforcement by state and federal environmental officials means that the mountaintop removal reclamation rarely results in reshaping the mountain to its approximate original state.

Not all the American people are intelligent enough about climate change to know their intelligence has been insulted. It's a complicated topic made more complicated by bogus arguments.

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?