Pro-mountain activists in Kayford, W. Va. blocked coal transport in two areas this morning (Thursday) protesting mountaintop removal.

Mountain Justice and RAMPS activists are fed up with the coal industry’s disregard for the health of citizens in Appalachia. In protest, five activists locked their bodies to a barge on the Kanawha River with a banner reading, “Coal leaves, cancer stays.” Other activists blocked access to the haul road on Kayford Mountain, preventing coal trucks from entering or leaving the Republic Energy mine.

Environmental activists at Greenpeace are feeling victorious since Apple’s recent announcement to use entirely renewable sources in the Maiden, North Carolina data center by the end of 2012.

Greenpeace has been pestering Apple for more than a year to commit to renewable energy. If pestering in the form of window washers, black balloons and giant iPods got Apple to make this change; I say more power to Greenpeace. I chuckled while reading about two Greenpeace activists who were arrested for barricading themselves inside of a giant iPod outside of Apple’s headquarters in California while broadcasting messages asking Apple to use renewable energy. Creative.