Christine MacDonald, E Magazine. November 9, 2009. Momentum is building to block new coal-fired power plants and end mountaintop removal mining. Is there enough political will to make the break?
Nell Greenberg, AlterNet. November 5, 2009. Coal River Mountain can be a wind farm that provides 85,000 households with electricity, creates 700 long-term green jobs but inside it is being dynamited.
Jeff Biggers, AlterNet. October 30, 2009. Scores of residents from the Appalachian coalfields have joined with supporters from across the country in a series of sit-ins, die-ins, and protests.
Bo Webb, AlterNet. October 26, 2009. As I write this, Massey Energy is poised to unleash even greater terror upon us by blasting Coal River Mountain to ashes, while our lives hover below in the balance.
Jeff Biggers, The Nation. September 16, 2009. An important announcement from EPA about mountaintop mining may mean there's hope for Appalachia's waterways.
Jeff Biggers, AlterNet. September 15, 2009. A recent story on the Clean Water Act violations in West Virginia -- and the indifference of state agencies -- blew the cover on one of the worst kept secrets.
Jeff Biggers, AlterNet. August 28, 2009. Here are a few ways to support coalfield residents and heroes, affect climate destabilization, and move our nation toward clean energy jobs.
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.
