On AlterNet: mountaintop removal

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "mountaintop removal"

5 Amazing Places in the US in Danger of Being Destroyed by Dirty Energy

Erik Loomis, AlterNet. February 8, 2012.

We've won a temporary reprieve from the Keystone XL Pipeline, but there are still places greatly at risk in the country.

The Growing Political War Surrounding Coal Mining Is a 'Fight About Democracy'

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."

Is Your Cell Phone Co. Sponsoring a Climate Change Denying, Union Busting, Pro-Mountaintop Removal Rally?

Peter Rothberg, TheNation.com AlterNet: PEEK. August 31, 2009.

If you're one of Verizon's 87 million customers, the answer is yes.

Obama Must Say No to the Coal Barons Desecrating Our Mountains

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.

How Obama Can Win Appalachia and the Nomination

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.

The Government Sanctioned Bombing of Appalachia

Antrim Caskey, AlterNet. October 9, 2007.

Thanks to Bush, Big Coal uses 3 million pounds of explosives each day in West Virginia to fuel our addiction to dirty energy.