U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin issued an injunction that blocked the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from authorizing new valley fills through its...
Jeff Biggers | Posted 04.30.2009 | Green
After 500 mountains in Appalachia have been blown to bits by mountaintop removal, one peak was most likely saved: Blair Mountain in West Virginia.
Sandra Diaz | Posted 04.26.2009 | Green
There has been an exciting and unprecedented flurry of activity this week to stop mountaintop removal coal mining, with the White House, the EPA, an...
switchboard.nrdc.org | Posted 04.25.2009 | Green
Now I'm disappointed and more than a little confused by EPA's "clarifying" statement issued this evening. Based on this, it appears that EPA is takin...
Rob Perks | Posted 04.18.2009 | Green
This week, more than 150 activists from around the country walked the halls of Congress, urging their elected leaders to end mountaintop removal coal mining.
Dave Burdick | Posted 04.18.2009 | Green
There are plenty of groups that oppose mountaintop removal coal mining, but not so many that reach across the aisles and into the chapels. But that's ...
Jesse Jenkins | Posted 04.17.2009 | Green
If we want to truly clean up coal, it's time to start with these three policies, each taking a major step to clean up one stage of the dirty-as-can-be coal life-cycle.
ecorazzi, DailyKos | Dave Burdick | Posted 04.12.2009 | Green
Issues like mountaintop removal coal mining -- a type of mining that is both environmentally and visually horrific -- were made for television. But we...
Jeff Biggers | Posted 04.02.2009 | Green
Author Bill McKibben held down the corner of the park with plenty of media cameras. He declared simply: "Coal is killing the planet. Green energy is going to drive us out of this recession."
Dave Cooper | Posted 03.26.2009 | Green
During your presidential campaign, you declared: "We have to find more environmentally sound ways of mining coal than simply blowing the tops off mountains." That time is now. Or never.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 03.22.2009 | Media
Sawyer's special report failed to notice the 800-pound gorilla in the room: Mountaintop removal strip mining that has devastated eastern Kentucky's communities and economy.
Tara Lohan | Posted 03.20.2009 | Green
The backbone of the "clean coal" rhetoric is based on several layers of lies and misinformation. The first is the idea that there is a technology that we have now to make coal clean.
Dave Cooper | Posted 03.19.2009 | Business
When it comes to cartoonish coal company eco-villians, no one fits the bill better than Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship.
AP | TIM HUBER | Posted 03.16.2009 | Green
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A federal appeals court overturned a ruling Friday requiring more extensive environmental reviews of mountaintop removal, a ...
Rob Perks | Posted 03.09.2009 | Green
It's one thing for a group of scientists to suggest turning lemons into lemonade in the case of the TVA spill, but the folks living this nightmare don't seem to like the sour taste. Who can blame them?
Jeff Biggers | Posted 03.07.2009 | Green
The mechanization of above-ground mountaintop removal has prevented a diverse economy and led to a decrease in coal mining jobs in some of the highest poverty stricken strip-mining areas.
Peter Lehner | Posted 03.02.2009 | Green
We also need to cap carbon and make coal pay its true price so that clean energy can compete with it. NRDC will be working on all of that.
Dave Cooper | Posted 02.28.2009 | Green
The coal industry doesn't want any regulation on coal waste, because it would hurt their corporate profits.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 02.23.2009 | Green
All Americans are connected to the tragedy of mountaintop removal. It's time to start the process of illuminating the White House, and our own homes, with clean energy.
npr.org | By Elizabeth Shogren | Posted 02.17.2009 | Green
There might not be a better place to contemplate the impact of President Bush's environmental legacy than Larry Gibson's mountain in southern West Vir...
Assignment Earth | Posted 03.12.2009 | Green
New federal mining rules, a parting gift to the coal industry from the Bush administration, will allow mining companies to blast even more mountain pe...
Javier Sierra | Posted 01.23.2009 | Green
Dear President-Elect Obama: The legacy that awaits you under the White House chimney resembles more a lump of coal than a welcome present, which leads me to my first wish for you.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 01.19.2009 | Green
The incoming Secretary of Energy will have the choice of committing billions of dollars to relaunch the shipwrecked FutureGen coal-fired plant, or allocating that amount of funding to launch a sustainable wind or solar clean jobs project in the same Illinois area.
Michael Brune | Posted 01.12.2009 | Green
Our foremost climatologist, NASA's James Hansen, has demonstrated that our only hope of getting our atmosphere back to a safe level lies in stopping the use of coal to generate electricity.
Michael Brune | Posted 01.11.2009 | Green
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.
The Charleston Gazette | More Comments ยป | Posted 05.01.2009 | Green