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.
Joseph Romm, Huffington Post. August 5, 2008. This is the best energy plan ever put forward by a nominee, especially in comparison to the plan by John "Nothing but Nukes" McCain.
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.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. July 11, 2008. Stay tuned for regular posts each week on "Mountain Mondays" to find out the latest info about stopping mountaintop removal mining.
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.
Glenn Hurowitz, Huffington Post. June 30, 2008. Virginia announced that it's going to permit the construction of a new coal-fired power plant, even though doing so clearly violates the law.
Kate Sheppard, Grist.org AlterNet: Environment. June 2, 2008. North Carolina doesn't practice MTR mining, but it does buy a whole lot of MTR-mined coal. But that may end.
Davin Hutchins, American News Project. May 30, 2008. Presidential candidates are pushing "clean coal" but many suspect it is causing a rare form of blood cancer.
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.
Brad Knickerbocker, Christian Science Monitor. February 6, 2008. Coal and nuke get the big bucks, while funds for renewables and poor people hoping to save on energy costs get sacked.
Amanda Paulson, Christian Science Monitor. February 5, 2008. A new book reveals the environmental battle raging across one of America's poorest regions.
Jeff Biggers, Huffington Post. January 29, 2008. Despite their inspiring speeches on global warming, they've bought into the sham of coal's reemergence as a "clean" source of energy.
AlterNet Staff, AlterNet. December 15, 2007. From the top 100 ways global warming with change your life to anti-environmental homeowners associations to the biofuel hoax, read this year's best.
Antrim Caskey, AlterNet. December 14, 2007. Big coal is hoping for government subsidies to replace oil. But its "clean coal" plan is an ecological nightmare for everyone.
