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.
Catherine O'Neill, Center for Progressive Reform. October 30, 2009. There are three recent developments in the saga of efforts to regulate mercury emissions from coal-fired utilities that are significant.
Joshua Frank, AlterNet. October 28, 2009. While outsiders may think of Oregon as a green utopia, it's undoubtedly not that groovy when it comes to the issue of coal.
Harvey Wasserman, AlterNet. October 21, 2009. The Senate bill includes a "Clean Energy Development Administration" that could deliver virtually unlimited federal cash to build new reactors and fund other mega-polluters.
Bruce Nilles, Sierra Club AlterNet: Environment. October 7, 2009. Though college life allows for leniency in the socially acceptable, coal still crosses the line.
Jeff Biggers, The Nation. September 16, 2009. An important announcement from EPA about mountaintop mining may mean there's hope for Appalachia's waterways.
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. September 16, 2009. Forty percent of the nation’s community water systems violated the Safe Drinking Water Act at least once, exposing over 23 million people to potential danger.
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.
John McQuaid, Yale Environment 360. August 14, 2009. Scientists are now beginning to see that mining's most lasting damage may be the massive amounts of debris dumped into valley streams.
Jeff Biggers, AlterNet. August 10, 2009. Why is he nominating an advocate for coal ash dumping who also admits he still needs to learn more about mountaintop removal mining?
Kate Sheppard, Grist.org. August 4, 2009. A firm hired by a coal lobbying group is believed to be responsible for forged letters pretending to be from the NAACP and a local Latino group.
Daphne Wysham, Institute for Policy Studies. July 28, 2009. The new energy bill would strip EPA of its power and let polluters take the reins with a market-based system.
Natasha Chart, Open Left AlterNet: PEEK. July 3, 2009. The coal industry's weeping and wailing about the Waxman-Markey bill hides the fact that they know it's the best deal they're going to get.
Dara Colwell, AlterNet. June 24, 2009. Let's take a look at why Waxman-Markey has the support of big polluters such as Shell Oil and Duke Energy, and not many environmental groups.
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.
