It makes little sense for UMWA President Roberts to side with the coal companies on the EPA or anything else. The coal companies continue to treat workers’ lives as expendable.
The struggle of Superior, AZ is like so many US towns where the primary industry and the promise of a stable life-long job have left town, likely never to return.
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.
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."
"We must be taking steps, no giant leaps, toward a goal that is well defined, take great pride in our achievements and never let our eyes drift from the goal."
"If I could have one wish for how to really put a dent into what is happening I think I would wish for tort attorneys and expert witnesses to sue the bastards."
Joshua Frank, Jeffrey St. Clair, AlterNet. March 23, 2011.
It's all about the money, of course and it shouldn't come as a surprise that Ken Salazar pressed the green light for more dirty energy development instead of funding renewables.
Legislation just passed in Virginia would take away the State Water Control Board's authority in protecting waters from waste coming from surface coal mines.
An investigation in Bolivia, where some of the factories are located, reports that the reality on the ground doesn't quite match up to Walmart's claims.
The bill was to make sure that the government is not shoveling tax dollars to mining companies that are facing serious allegations of human rights and environmental abuses.
Tiffany Danitz Pache, DC Bureau. November 9, 2010.
Mining proponents say that new technologies make mining environmentally safe but many disagree and are worried that mines will ruin a new boom in eco-tourism.
The Great Lakes region is stormy, with harsh, blizzard-laden winters. These conditions do not bode well for preventing a dynamic and noxious reaction to metallic sulfide mining.
For the first time a state government has submitted a petition to the federal government to set aside state-owned mountain ridgelines as unsuitable for coal surface mining.
