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.
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.
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.
Bruce Nilles, Sierra Club AlterNet: Environment. May 18, 2009. You now have the chance to counter the fear mongering by demonstrating that Americans want strong action on global warming.
Meaghan Daly, Water Matters @ Columbia. May 11, 2009. As water stresses increase, states are increasingly turning away from thirsty energy sources like coal and nuclear.
Jeff Biggers, AlterNet. April 20, 2009. The West Virginia and Cherokee native has been one of the most vocal advocates for justice in the Appalachian coalfields.
Staff, The Nation AlterNet: Environment. April 18, 2009. China's coal dependency has turned the country into the world's largest greenhouse gas producer.
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.
