Riceville, NC – Now folks can leave their mark on the Pisgah National Forest without having to lace up their boots. A new online survey invites forest users to weigh in on a recent Forest Service proposal in the Shope…
Riceville, NC – Now folks can leave their mark on the Pisgah National Forest without having to lace up their boots. A new online survey invites forest users to weigh in on a recent Forest Service proposal in the Shope…
Science Panel Finds Fault With Estimates of Coal Supply By Matthew L. Wald WASHINGTON, June 20 — The United States may not have nearly as much coal as is popularly believed, and mining the remaining resources may be more dangerous…
Yesterday, Jeff Goodell was on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross discussing his book, Big Coal. Jeff Goodell is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and a frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine. His analysis of the power…
We’re making progress toward stopping mountaintop removal coal mining, but we need to ensure that Congress does not pass a bad energy bill that would increase America’s consumption of dirty coal. And right now, Congress is doing just that as…
No sound way to turn coal into liquid gold By Marquita K. Hill I am beyond disappointed in Rep. Rick Boucher’s total embrace of the coal industry (June 5 editorial, “Billion-dollar boondoggle”). Coal-to-liquid oil technology is expensive and harmful to…
Mine ponds ruled illegal – Judge deals second blow to coal industry by United States District Court – By Ken Ward Jr. Richmond, VA – Coal operators cannot evade the Clean Water Act by building sediment-treatment ponds just downstream from…
In a process called mountaintop removal, the coal-mining industry blows off the tops of mountains with explosives to get at coal faster and cheaper, she said. As a result, surrounding areas are buried by pollution and waste, streams dry up…
By Carley Petesch United Nations – A coalition of environmental groups called on the United Nations May 9 to take a stand against ecologically destructive coal mining practices in the Appalachians region of the U.S., saying that the federal and…
U.S. Forest Service chief visits Valdosta [Georgia] One traditionally doesn’t think of conservationists and foresters as having common interests, but as the pressures mount on both government and private landowners to develop and sell off natural resources once thought to…
Part 1 Part 2 But what about the Navajo, Hopi and Crow? Peabody destroyed the Black Mesa, a sacred place of worship for Native Americans in Northern Arizona. And the Washington Group uses Crow labor in the Absaloka mines of…