Bo Webb, AlterNet. October 26, 2009. As I write this, Massey Energy is poised to unleash even greater terror upon us by blasting Coal River Mountain to ashes, while our lives hover below in the balance.
Steven D., Booman Tribune AlterNet: PEEK. September 1, 2009. Big Guvmint is the cause of all our problems. Except when it can help a Republican Senator look good to his constituents.
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?
Jeff Biggers, AlterNet. June 10, 2009. He has overseen, or blatantly overlooked, one of the most egregious environmental and human rights violations in the nation: mountaintop removal.
Kelly Hearn, The Nation. April 3, 2009. Third-party tests have found high levels of toxins in the river water and in private wells, while the TVA has assured residents the water is safe.
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.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet. February 14, 2009. The coal industry has spent millions trying to fool the American public, Congress and the president. Here's how to beat the hype.
Erin Brockovich, Robin Greenwald, Huffington Post. January 13, 2009. What does the future hold for the public's health and safety? Overnight, a whole community's lifestyle is gone.
Josh Dorner, Sierra Club AlterNet: Water. January 13, 2009. And what did the famously loquacious industry mouthpiece have to say about the sludge spill? Not a single word.
Bruce Nilles, Sierra Club AlterNet: Water. January 6, 2009. It was a tragedy of epic proportions, and this massive spill reminds us that coal is not clean, and coal is not cheap.
Antrim Caskey, AlterNet. January 5, 2009. With the breaking of a coal waste dam in Tennessee, environmental and human health is threatened by millions of pounds of toxic chemicals.
Bruce Nilles, Sierra Club AlterNet: Environment. October 23, 2008. The last remaining legal impediment to devastating mountaintop removal coal mining is now just one step away from being abolished.
Kari Lydersen, AlterNet. August 29, 2008. Alaska is one step closer to approving Pebble Mine, which threatens the world's largest salmon fishery and native communities.
Ed Struzik, Yale Environment 360. July 10, 2008. With sea ice melting, there is a rush to tap the abundant riches that lie beneath the permafrost and the ocean floor.
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.
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.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Huffington Post. November 30, 2007. Where does your energy come from and how dirty is it? A new website allows you to see your link to coal.
