Check out our friends Bo Webb, Chuck Nelson, and Larry Gibson with Morgan Spurlock, star of “Supersize Me.” Spurlock’s show “30 days” will feature mountaintop removal starting June 3rd at 10PM on the FX channel.
Check out our friends Bo Webb, Chuck Nelson, and Larry Gibson with Morgan Spurlock, star of “Supersize Me.” Spurlock’s show “30 days” will feature mountaintop removal starting June 3rd at 10PM on the FX channel.
When I saw the clip of the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart apeing a misinformed West Virginia voter last week, I had a flashback to a Saturday Night Live “Appalachian ER” skit, which featured rocker Neil Young embroiled in a mess…
From Solar Nation: Congress has spent nearly a year debating how to pay for these expiring tax incentives, which make it cheaper for individuals and companies to install renewable energy systems and build energy-efficient buildings. The House doesn’t want to…
Sam Seder, on Air America Radio, has a must listen interview with David Novick – director of “Burning the Future“. David goes into detail about mountaintop removal’s negative impact on local economies, coal company intimidation, and the myth of “clean…
https://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2008/05/20/johns.mountain.mining.cnn CNN’s Joe Johns investigates the effects of mountain-top mining in West Virginia.
“How will America get the energy we need if mountaintop removal coal mining stops?” If you’ve had many conversations with people about mountaintop removal, you may have been confronted by this question. For those of us who aren’t authorities on…
At a forum about mountaintop removal and Dominion’s proposed Wise County plant hosted by Temple Rodef Shalom and coorganized by the Falls Church Presbyterian Church the evening of April 30, one participant used business—as opposed to ecological—economics to make the…
Former Virginia Governor Mark Warner is currently the Democratic candidate for Senate in Virginia. I was recently able to ask him about his position on mountaintop removal. His (disappointing) answer? We haven’t done much of it here in Virginia. The…
Per Kimberly Brewster, Operations Director for Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy As you all know over the past couple of months, Vicki has been assisting CMLC with the AmeriCorps program as a contractor. She has kindly offered to continue to work…
Larry Bush, Pete Ramey, and Kathy Selvage; Citizens of Wise County and founders of the Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards One week from today, citizens of Wise County, Virginia, will deliver a mile-long petition to Dominion Resources opposing their plans for…