Jeff Biggers, Stephanie Pistello, AlterNet. June 23, 2009. Notables attending a peaceful protest against Big Coal were arrested and two local organizers were attacked by an industry supporter.
Byard Duncan, AlterNet. June 23, 2009. No source of energy is worth the price we're paying. Tell your senators it's time to stop blowing up our mountains.
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.
Bruce Nilles, Sierra Club AlterNet: Water. June 15, 2009. Without a significant change in policy, mining companies will continue to destroy our mountains and bury our streams on Obama's watch.
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.
Bill McKibben, Yale Environment 360. February 24, 2009. With thousands of big names and small gathering, the first massive protest of its kind against global warming will put the heat on DC.
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.
Bruce Nilles, Sierra Club. February 17, 2009. The new ruling could mean 90 new mountaintop removal coal mining sites that can dump toxic pollution into our drinking water.
Jeff Biggers, Huffington Post. February 5, 2009. If you thought the TVA spill in December was bad, we could be be in for much worse in Coal River, West Virginia if we don't act now.
Bruce Nilles, Sierra Club AlterNet: Environment. February 2, 2009. SC is on the front lines of global warming, so it is no surprise that a coalition has formed against the latest planned coal-fired power plant there.
Carole Bass, New Haven Independent. January 15, 2009. In some parts of the country, rates of black lung disease have more than doubled among coal miners.
Tara DePorte, AlterNet. October 31, 2008. A look at whether "clean coal" is actually clean, how the technology works, and whether it is a climate crisis cure.
Amanda Paulson, Christian Science Monitor. February 5, 2008. A new book reveals the environmental battle raging across one of America's poorest regions.
Antrim Caskey, AlterNet. October 9, 2007. Thanks to Bush, Big Coal uses 3 million pounds of explosives each day in West Virginia to fuel our addiction to dirty energy.
