Cross posted from iLoveMountains.org C. Belmont Keeney, or Chuck as most people know him, has a Ph.D. in Appalachian and American History from West Virginia University. His great grandfather, Frank Keeney, was president of the United Mine Workers of America…
Monthly Archives: July 2011
A Cup of Arsenic in the Morning Does a Body…Good?
In what some folks would call the “no-duh” factor, the TVA has found contaminated groundwater near some of their coal fired power plant coal ash sites. Following the 2008 coal ash disaster at TVA’s Kingston Fossil Plant in Harriman, Tenn.,…
Modeling: Pretty is as Pretty Does
The following is a blog post by Betsy Shepard of Surry County, Virginia. The largest coal plant ever proposed for the state is proposed within the small town of Dendron, in Surry County and upwind of nearly 2 million people…
Boulder crashes through home in Perry County
Cross posted from WYMT News: Federal and state officials are investigating after a boulder came crashing through a Perry County home on July 26. This was not the first time this quiet community was shaken up. “It’s shaken in here…
Breaking: New Study Links Mountaintop Removal to 60,000 Additional Cancer Cases
by Jeff Biggers, cross posted from Alternet.org Among the 1.2 million American citizens living in mountaintop removal mining counties in central Appalachia, an additional 60,000 cases of cancer are directly linked to the federally sanctioned strip-mining practice. That is the…
Massey Energy Gets to Continue Business-As-Usual While Tim DeChristopher Gets Two Years in Prison
Please join Appalachian Voices, Free Speech for People and Rainforest Action Network in asking that Massey Energy’s corporate charter be revoked True community exists when neighbors respect each other. Good neighbors are mindful of the impacts that their actions have…
Tim DeChristopher Sentenced, Speaks on MTR
Thoughts on Justice in the Coal Bearing Areas of Appalachia Tim DeCristopher, an native West Virginian, has been sentenced to 2 years in jail plus a $10,000 fine for putting a false bid on an oil lease at a public…
Make Your Voice Heard: Support New Mercury Standards To Protect Human Health
The EPA has proposed new standards for mercury and other toxic air pollutants from coal and oil-fired power plants. You have until August 4th to make your voice heard at the EPA. Even if you are not concerned about the…
EPA Guidance Will Not Protect Appalachian Communities
After hearing that EPA Would Rely on the Best Science to Protect People from Mountaintop Removal Mining Waste, This Guidance is a Bitter Disappointment Today, the Environmental Protection Agency released the final draft of their long-awaited surface coal mining guidance.…
EPA Guidance on Mountaintop Removal Falls Short
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE EPA Guidance on Mountaintop Removal Falls Short Group says that final EPA guidance on water pollution from Appalachian coal mines could allow further devastation of waterways and communities in Appalachia – – – – – – –…
