Strip Mining

Federal Agencies Unite Against Strip Mine Near National Park

AP | PAUL FOY | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Energy, Video, National Park Mining, Bryce Canyon National Park, Bryce Canyon, National-Parks, Bryce Canyon Utah Strip Mine, Coal Mining, Strip Mining, Utah, Green News

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Federal biologists say a strip mine at the backdoor to Utah's storybook Bryce Canyon National Park will wipe out the southernm...

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Keystone Pipeline: Gift Horse or Threat to America

Nigel Barber | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Tar Sands, Keystone Pipeline, Environmental Policy, Energy Policy, Water Pollution, Strip Mining, Alberta Oil Sands, Keystone Leadership, Green News
Nigel Barber

Whatever decision is reached on the pipeline, we need to balance both sides of the debate in a mature way. Yet that may not happen. We are likely to get politics as usual.

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Canton Lake Thanksgiving: Residents Rally to Protect Clean Drinking Water from Strip Mine

Jeff Biggers | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Epa, Dirty Coal, Coal Slurry, Clean Water Act, Gov. Pat Quinn, Strip Mine, Environment, Coal, Canton Lake, Clean Water, Strip Mining, Chicago News
Jeff Biggers

This Thanksgiving, residents in Canton and Orion Township in Fulton County, Illinois will enjoy the basic human right of clean drinking water -- though, not without a fight.

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Canton Lake Debacle: Gov. Quinn, Do You Know Your IEPA Might Permit the State's Most Destructive and Reckless Strip Mine?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Canton Lake, Dirty Coal, Banner Marsh, Illinois River, Canton, Strip Mine, Wind, Jobs, Banner Mine, Coal, Gov. Pat Quinn, Chicago Environment, Strip Mining, Chicago News
Jeff Biggers

In light of the lack of compliance and violations of Clean Water Act laws, is Gov. Quinn's IEPA making a mockery out of the legal responsibility and moral obligation of the state on behalf of its citizens?

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Speak Now Against the Day: TN Activist Ash-Lee Henderson on Next Steps for Anti-Mountaintop Removal Movement

Jeff Biggers | Posted 06.15.2011

Read More: Lamar Alexander, Appalachia, Dirty Coal, Appalachia Rising, Mountaintop Removal, Clean Coal, Tennessee, Coal, Strip Mining, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Few activists have put their necks on the line as often as Tennessee activist Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson. She has been one of the most tireless, courageous campaigners to speak against mountaintop removal in Appalachia.

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Yes, Virginia, This Dirty Coal Bill Is a Bad Bar Room Romance

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Virginia, Epa, Appalachia, Dirty Coal, Sen. Jim Webb, Clean Coal, Big Coal, West Virginia, Clean Water Act, Kentucky, Mountaintop Removal, Lisa-Jackson, Strip Mining, Coal, Green News
Jeff Biggers

A handful of Virginia politicians appear more intent on providing loopholes to circumvent growing national concern over clean water laws than to protect their own citizens -- and their own state budget.

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Sundance: Rage, Outrage, and a Vision

Larry Beinhart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wind Power, Jr., Toxic Sludge, Coal, Toxic, Alternative Energy, Co2 Emissions, Robert Kennedy, Emissions, Global Warming, Sundance 2011, Appalachian Mountains, Strip Mining, Entertainment News
Larry Beinhart

On every level, coal mining and burning coal for energy is destructive. Watch the film to be outraged. And to be inspired.

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U.S. Mining Sites Rarely Redeveloped, Despite Supporters' Claims

AP | DYLAN LOVAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: u.s. Mining, Mine Redevelopment, Mining Redevelopment, Environment, Mountaintop Removal, Kentucky Mining, Strip Mining, Mine Development, Appalachian Mining, West Virginia Mining, Green News

HINDMAN, Ky. — A short drive up a side road through dense Appalachian forest ends at a vast, flat clearing where a mountaintop used to be. The ...

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Educating Rand: "Deep Down" Film Brings Kentucky's Mountaintop Removal Battle to PBS Viewers

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Epa, PBS Independent Lens, Dirty Coal, Rand Paul, Water, Kentucky, Clean Energy, Mountaintop Removal, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, Coal, Strip Mining, Clean-Water-Act, Deep Down, Green News
Jeff Biggers

While national media attention on mountaintop removal mining has largely been focused on West Virginia, the PBS Independent Lens series will air "Deep...

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Black Cross Movement Calls Out Dangerous Navajo Coal Mines (Photos)

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Navajo Nation, Black Cross Alliance, Massey, Msha, Office of Surface Mining, Peabody, Coal, Coal Mining, Strip Mining, Kayenta, Dinetah, Green News
Jeff Biggers

As the Labor Department made an unprecedented move yesterday to file a court injunction to shut down a hazardous Massey Energy coal mine in eastern Ke...

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Enthusiasm Gap? Coalfields Rising, Baby (VIDEO)

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lisa Jackson, Dirty Coal, President Obama, Big Coal, Renewable Energy, Clean Energy, Just-Transition, Coal, Epa, Coal Miners, Climate Change, Illinois, Mountaintop Removal, Doi, Strip Mining, Uwma, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Coalfield residents are no longer afraid of Big Coal or their bankrolled politicians. They're fed up with shouldering the staggering human and environmental costs for our nation's dirty energy policy.

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Big Coal Tea Party Extremists Circle Wagons in DC Today: Coalfields Left Behind in Ruins

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Appalachia, Dirty Coal, Mitch McConnell, Lobbyists, Wyoming, Epa, West Virginia, Big Coal, Kentucky, Mountaintop Removal, Strip-Mining, Nick Rahall, Jim Webb, Tea Party, FACES of Coal, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Now it's Big Coal's turn to pick up the tab for the Tea Party. Under the guise of "celebrating the American coal miner," an infamous Big Coal front lobby group has bankrolled the buses, hotels and meals to bring Appalachian coal mining supporters to DC.

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Energy Sec. Chu Calls for More Black Lung, Strip-Mining, Coal Ash, Coal Slurry and Coalfield Poverty

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Carbon Capture and Storage, Jay Rockefeller, West Virginia, Carbon Emissions, Clean Coal, YERT.Com, Strip-Mining, Utah, Doe, Dirty Coal, Epa, Steven Chu, Big Coal, Coal Ash, Mountaintop Removal, Illinois, Black Lung, Energy, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Chu triumphantly told his Big Coal listeners that he would "save coal" by investing billions into still infeasible, prohibitively expensive, unproven and fanciful carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology.

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Strip-Mining and Mountaintop Removal Are Fun! Big Coal Launches New Commercials (VIDEO)

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Epa, President Obama, Clean Coal, Big Coal, YERT.Com, Department of Interior, Renewable Energy, Mountaintop Removal, Coal, Strip Mining, Green News
Jeff Biggers

In a bold new effort to counter "ill-informed" statements by coalfield residents and addled scientists, Big Coal is launching a new series of commercials to set the record straight.

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Profiles in Courage

Edward Flattau | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ken Hechler, Aurelio Pecci, Envirnomentalists, West Virginia, West Virginia Coal Mine, Environmentalism, West Virginia Primary, West Virginia Senate Replacement, Pete Mccloskey, Strip Mining, Hechler, Green News
Edward Flattau

Maybe there is some merit to electing to high office senior citizens whose better days in public service are supposedly behind them.

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Ashley Judd Needs No Defense: Besieged Kentucky Mountaineers Need More Defenders Against Big Coal

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Appalachia, Heritage, Big Coal, Kentucky, Ashley Judd, Mountaintop Removal, Green Energy, Strip Mining, Coal, Culture, Green News
Jeff Biggers

The little sycophants of Big Coal outsiders are yapping at the heels of eastern Kentucky-raised actress Ashley Judd again. This time the barking do...

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Reclaiming Earth Day: Guerilla Reclamation Actions in the Coalfields

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Coal Miners, Epa, Dirty Coal, Earth Day 2010, Mountaintop Removal, Coal, Strip Mining, Reclamation, Osm, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Ten years ago on Earth Day, the scene was entirely different here. I stood with my mother and Uncle Richard at the rim of a lunar expanse of ruts and rocks and broken earth. We had to protect our eyes.

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UPDATE: Obama Ends 150-Year War of Strip-Mining in 24 States! Mountaintop Removal Loses Its Groove

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ken Ward, Coal Tattoo, Epa, Alaska, Dirty Coal, Montana, President Obama, Clean Coal, Wyoming, West Virginia, War, Kentucky, Mountaintop Removal, Strip-Mining, Lisa Jackson, Illinois, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Over the next decades, despite the new surface-mining laws, a land mass the size of some entire eastern states would be strip-mined and eliminated from our American maps.

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Dark Secret of World Water Day: Coal-Fired Plants Drink 1.5 Trillion Gallons, Then We Drink Backwash

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joseph Pizarchik, Lisa Jackson, Dirty Coal, World Water Day, Clean Water Protection Act, Clean Water Act, Mountaintop Removal, Illinois, Osm, Coal, Strip Mining, Coal-Fired Plants, Longwall Mining, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Here's a sobering fact on World Water Day: Coal-fired power plants use approximately 1.5 trillion gallons of water a year in the US. In many respe...

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Take Off Broadway, Off Coal: Love, in the Time of Blasting

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dirty Coal, Love Story, Off Broadway, Publishing, Books, Nation Books, Theatre, Nonfiction, Mountaintop Removal, Strip-Mining, Coal, Narrative Nonfiction, Green News
Jeff Biggers

This is the scene, when the coal-fired electricity that lights up New York City's neon theatre district lowers on stage: We are inside the home of Ma...

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The Progress of Man

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: India, Progress, Dongria Kondh, Bauxite, Kentucky, Tribal-Society, Strip Mining, Coal, Aboriginals, Politics News
Robert Koehler

It's time, I think, to resacralize progress. One way to start is to recognize the rights of native peoples around the world not to be displaced.

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Does the President's "Clean Coal" Glibness Turn American Citizens Into Acceptable Collateral Damage?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dirty Coal, President Obama, Lung Disease, Clean Coal, Death Rates, Economy, Clean Energy, Heart Disease, Green Energy, Strip Mining, Black Lung, Coal, Illinois, Chicago News
Jeff Biggers

Does Obama's glibness, for whatever reasons of practicality or politics, turn American citizens into acceptable collateral damage in a confounding defense of our nation's dirty energy policy?

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How Green is Chicago? Eight Arrested at Deadly Fisk Coal-Fired Plant

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 350.Org, Climate Change, Chicago, Mountaintop Removal, Coal, Strip Mining, Sierra Club, Coal-Fired Plants, Barack Obama, Dick Durbin, 350ppm, Chicago News
Jeff Biggers

The Chicago activists called attention to the deadly life cycle of coal mining and coal burning -- including the burning of coal strip-mined from mountaintop removal operations in Appalachia.

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Rocker Ted Nugent to Emcee Pro-Coal "Friends of America" Rally in West Virginia

Dave Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hannity, Blankenship, West Virginia, Mountaintop Removal, Coal, Strip Mining, Massey, Nugent, Entertainment News
Dave Cooper

Nugent, whose on-stage antics include wearing a loincloth and inviting President Obama to "suck on my machine gun" will emcee the event, which also inculdes Sean Hannity and Hank Williams Jr.

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King Coal

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Appalachia, Greenhouse Gases, Environment, Renewable Energy, Natural Gas, Pollution, Green Energy, Coal, Strip Mining, Green News
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The giant advantage of a quick conversion from coal to gas is the quickest route for jumpstarting our economy and saving our planet.

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