Jeff Biggers, AlterNet. June 22, 2009. The human rights and constitutional violations of Americans by ruthless outside coal companies will be on full display to the media and the nation.
Jeff Biggers, AlterNet. June 10, 2009. He has overseen, or blatantly overlooked, one of the most egregious environmental and human rights violations in the nation: mountaintop removal.
Jim Hightower, AlterNet. June 8, 2009. Now is the time for us to flex some grass-roots political muscle and force Obama to stick to his promise to stop mountaintop coal removal.
Karl Burkart, AlterNet. June 1, 2009. WE Energies has proclaimed that it has captured carbon at a coal-fired plant, but this "success" won't come close to making coal clean.
Jeff Biggers, Indypendent. May 28, 2009. More than 240,000 tons of coal stripmined through mountaintop removal operations are consumed by New Yorkers every year.
Jeff Biggers, AlterNet. May 19, 2009. Obama should keep his campaign promise, travel to Appalachia and publicly announce a timeline to formally end mountaintop removal operations.
Kelly Hearn, The Nation. April 3, 2009. Third-party tests have found high levels of toxins in the river water and in private wells, while the TVA has assured residents the water is safe.
Matt Wasson, AlterNet. March 30, 2009. Studies show that mountaintop removal mining isn't good for the local economy as the coal industry purports. Here's the facts.
Jeff Biggers, AlterNet. March 24, 2009. Whether this is the beginning of a transition to abolish mountaintop removal is yet to be seen, but it is a huge step forward for our country.
Jeff Biggers, AlterNet. March 23, 2009. The first shot has been fired in the legislative battle to end the devastating practice of mountaintop removal mining in central Appalachia.
Bo Webb, AlterNet. February 19, 2009. Like sitting ducks waiting to be buried in an avalanche of mountain waste, we are trapped in a war zone within our own country.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet. February 14, 2009. The coal industry has spent millions trying to fool the American public, Congress and the president. Here's how to beat the hype.
Bruce Nilles, Sierra Club AlterNet: Environment. November 10, 2008. When the votes were counted, McCain lost critical coal-producing states he hoped to win over with his last-minute coal blitz.
Peter Slavin, AlterNet. August 19, 2008. One community is attempting to prove that clean energy can beat dirty power -- even in the heart of coal country.
Kevin Grandia, Huffington Post. August 4, 2008. Transitioning to renewable energy sources promises significant global job gains at a time when the coal industry has been hemorrhaging jobs for years.
JW Randolph, Appalachian Voices AlterNet: Environment. July 14, 2008. Here's the first installment of "Monday Mountains" -- the best of the week from Appalachia.
Jeff Biggers, Huffington Post. July 9, 2008. Faced with an impending proposal to stripmine over 6,600 acres, local residents have come up with a better idea.
Jeff Biggers, Huffington Post. March 28, 2008. Appalachia could provide Obama an historic opportunity to move beyond our racial politics with a truly new vision -- a green one.
