Monthly Archives: June 2006

Study on Certified Forests, Forest Products Sets Stage for Educational Programs

[Louisiana] This and other results of the study conducted with landowners in Louisiana and Mississippi by researchers at the LSU AgCenter and Mississippi State University will be used to provide the background needed for developing a Web site and handbook

Coal and Global Warming

This month, U.S. P.I.R.G., released a report called “ The Carbon Boom: National and State Trends in Carbon Dioxide Emissions Since 1960”. A lot of people ask me, why do you care about air pollution? Global warming is going to

WV Net-metering

If you live in WV and think that we need further incentives for renewable energy, stand with OHVEC today and submit a comment to the Public Service Commission about net-metering in West Virginia! They have sample letters, talking points, everything.

NC Roundup

What’s going on around North Carolina, with an everlasting tip-of-the-hat to NC ConNet. Are there organizations in other states that do what they do? Compile all the major environmental stories from state and national media and send it out in

Economics of Strip Mining

Chris Irwin at United Mountain Defense just delivered one of the most awesome point-by-point refutation of every coal industry talking point ever. Stat-by-stat, and state-by-state, Chris refutes Congressman Duncan’s (R TN-1) silly hogwash about “jobs and economics and helping poor

Loggers use a primitive kind of pull

[Kentucky] Some timber-cutters in Kentucky are reviving an environmentally friendly practice that traces to the state’s frontier days. “Horse-loggers,” as they are often called, are using draft horses and mules to snake logs from the forest. The practice can lessen

Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America’s Energy Future (by Jeff Goodell)

Jeff Goodell’s Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America’s Energy Future has been making quite a splash nationwide. Corey S. Powell just gave it a rave review over at the little ol’ New York Times. Folks interested can also read

The Ballad of Blankey Crackett

THE BALLAD OF BLANKEY CRACKETT Words by P. J. Laska to the tune of “The Ballad of Davey Crockett” Born on a mountaintop removed by greed Sorriest sight in the land of the freed. Raised in destruction, that’s all he

Massey Operations Cited Twice for Flooding and Mudslides

(Now say that five times fast…we don’t get to say it that often! Masseyoperationstwicecitedformuddingandfloodslides!) Coal operations managed by Massey Energy and International Coal Group (ICG) are being blamed for mudslides this week as the mid-Atlantic states face torrential rains. Near

Appalachia: National Sacrifice Zone

Jeff Goodell, author of Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America’s Energy Future, just wrote a terrific editorial in the New York Times called Our Black Future, which touches on the growing need and want of coal in supplying America

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