Mountaintop-removal mining is a method of surface mining that involves lopping of the tops of mountains. The process is most closely associated with c...
Grist | Joseph Romm | Posted 01.10.2009 | Green
One of the world's largest financial institutions said this week it will phase out lending money to coal operators that use mountaintop removal mining...
Michael Brune | Posted 01.07.2009 | Green
Bank of America has announced that they will be stop financing for companies that practice mountaintop removal coal mining, a highly destructive method of coal extraction.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 01.04.2009 | Media
Bush eases mining pollution regulations, greenhouse gases reach record levels, 2008 hurricane season sets records, Big Three spent $50 million lobbying Congress this year, and more.
Lucy Carrigan | Posted 01.04.2009 | Green
While we are all congratulating ourselves for the tremendous victory that is Barack Obama as our next president, the Bush administration is doing what it does best: screwing us.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 12.26.2008 | Green
Dismissing an overwhelming majority of West Virginian support for clean energy, Governor Manchin granted a mining permit revision for proposed mountaintop removal of Coal River Mt.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 12.22.2008 | Green
If President-elect Obama is truly serious about affecting climate change... then we must end the appointment of coal and other extraction industry executives.
Sarah van Gelder | Posted 12.20.2008 | Green
It is a relief that we are now discussing how, rather than whether, to address this global crisis. But will Obama's actions be up to the crisis at hand?
Michael Brune | Posted 12.15.2008 | Green
The citizens of Coal River Mountain, West Virginia are already working on building their own future with clean power.
McClatchy Newspapers | Renee Schoof | Posted 12.08.2008 | Green
WASHINGTON -- In the next few weeks, the Bush administration is expected to relax environmental-protection rules on power plants near national parks, ...
The Daily Green | Jim DiPeso | Posted 11.27.2008 | Green
Nothing could be more destructive of those conservative values than mountaintop removal coal mining. The high explosives and draglines that are gougin...
Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.20.2008 | Green
After a year of record profits, coal operatives will receive nearly $2.8 billion in tax credits in the recent Wall Street bailout.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.08.2008 | Green
In the 1970s, as the nation panicked, the coal industry announced a massive "clean coal" plan for coal-to-liquid gas conversion that would free us from foreign oil dependence. Sound familiar?
Michael Brune | Posted 10.24.2008 | Green
A new coal plant in Virginia or a destructive coal mine in Appalachia are not isolated challenges; they are part of a national energy system run amok.
The Daily Green | Posted 10.23.2008 | Green
In a story, fittingly, featured in the Charleston Gazette, in West Virginia's coal country, about people are puzzling over how John McCain and Barack ...
Frances Beinecke | Posted 10.12.2008 | Green
Our nation's oil addiction is hobbling economic growth and consumer spending power.
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 06.17.2008 | Green
King Fossil Fuel has ruled: there will be no Senate debate on global warming this year. And Joe Lieberman's greenwashed campaign gift for John McCain is a no-go.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
The mountaintop removal issue transcends any narrow debate of jobs vs. trees by clearly showing that the environmental devastation has gone hand-in-hand with economic decline.
Huffington Post | Posted 01.10.2009 | Green