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Legislators Are Going to Unbelievable Lengths to Gouge Clean Water Laws and Cozy Up to Big Coal

Jeff Biggers, AlterNet. February 25, 2011.

'As an air-breather and a water-drinker, I take offense to the notion that coal company profits are more important than my children's lives.'

'Natural' Gas Industry Shills Use the Media to Mislead the Public -- Here's How to Spot Them

Maura Stephens, AlterNet. October 19, 2010.

Learn to decode the messages of the gas industry, its shills, the politicians in its pocket, and lazy journalists.

One More Reason to Boycott Nike: Exploiting Mountaintop Removal and Dead Coal Miners

Joshua Frank, AlterNet. September 2, 2010.

Leave it to Nike to make an ad for football gear so incredibly offensive.

Will Drinking Water for Millions be Devastated by Natural Gas Drilling?

Jeff Deasy, AlterNet. July 19, 2010.

From Colorado to New York, natural gas drilling is putting drinking water at risk.

Natural Gas Well Leak Results in Contaminated Water and Cattle Quarantine

Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica. July 14, 2010.

Officials have quarantined 28 beef cattle on a Pennsylvania farm after wastewater from a nearby gas well leaked into a field and came in contact with the animals.

A New Generation of Natural Gas Drilling Is Endangering Communities From the Rockies to New York

Nora Eisenberg, The Nation. June 22, 2010.

Filmmaker Josh Fox talks about 'Gasland' and his quest to understand the risks posed by today's natural gas industry.

Onshore Catastrophe in Waiting: Two Natural Gas Drilling Accidents in the Last Week

Nora Eisenberg, AlterNet. June 7, 2010.

As the disaster in the Gulf continues, here's ample proof that natural gas drilling on land is no safe bet either.

Hightower: Teabagger Conservatism and Corporate Greed Killed the 29 Miners

Jim Hightower, AlterNet. April 15, 2010.

The miners are dead because self-serving profiteers in the coal industry use their political clout to fend off safety regulations by the big, bad government.

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.

Stop The Teabaggers, Give Them Green Jobs: Lessons From the Coalfields of West Virginia

Stop The Teabaggers, Give Them Green Jobs: Lessons From the Coalfields of West Virginia

Mike Elk, Campaign for America's Future AlterNet: Politics. August 28, 2009.

West Virginia shows us how we could easily win over this key segment of society, working class whites, with a New Deal-style industrial policy.

Incredibly Scary: Watch E-Voting Machine in West VA Flip Votes

Liza Sabater, Culture Kitchen AlterNet: Video. October 28, 2008.

Electronic voting machines "flip votes" even after they have been calibrated properly.

West Virginia Secretary of State Disenfranchising Thousands of Obama Voters?

Matt Stoller, Open Left AlterNet: PEEK. April 29, 2008.

Separate but unequal voting systems in West Virginia threaten to disenfranchise independent voters.

Black Woman Kidnapped, Tortured and Raped for Days by Racists in West Virginia

David Neiwert, AlterNet: PEEK. September 12, 2007.

David Neiwert: One of her white captors told her, "That's what we do to niggers around here," as they beat her repeatedly.

Wind vs. Coal: False Choices in the Battle to Resolve Our Energy Crisis

Tara Lohan, AlterNet. February 15, 2007.

If you want to know what we can do to resolve our energy crisis, look no further than West Virginia. Understanding a recent battle over wind development in coal country could help us all.

Dem Wins Squeaker in West Virginia, Media Still Says It\'s Bad News for Democrats

Steve Singiser, December 31, 1969.


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