As families of dead miners mark the second anniversary of the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster, there is little consolation in the way of improved safety laws or reforms.
Arch coal may be planning mining and mountaintop removal operations within the boundaries of one of the most important labor and civil rights monuments in the nation.
It's looking more and more like we're facing catastrophe from global warming, but the fossil fuel industry has prepared an escape for us. Too bad it looks like a nightmare, too.
A large percentage of the power Angelenos depend on comes from coal plants, which spew their filth hundreds of miles away, across state lines in Indian country.
Sarah van Gelder, YES! Magazine. September 21, 2011.
On Friday, two public interest groups asked the attorney general of Delaware to revoke the charter of Massey Energy, a company they call a criminal enterprise.
They violated the Clean Water Act over 4,500 times in a six year time period and are responsible for the deadliest coal mining accident in over 40 years.
Advocacy groups are calling for an immediate moratorium on all mountaintop removal mining operations until the federal government can mitigate the spiraling humanitarian crisis.
Amy Goodman, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Bill Haney, Democracy Now!. May 24, 2011.
"They’ve destroyed the unions, they’ve beaten up on the environment, they’ve violated federal health and safety standards, to [enrich] ... the executives of the company."
"Issues about land ownership, self-determination, labor justice, and so many others are intimately related to our struggle to end mountaintop removal."
