Our bill – The Clean Water Protection Act (HR 2169) would amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. There’s a hearing in the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee specifically on the FWPCA and the Clean Water Act. Listen to it…
Monthly Archives: July 2007
Kayford Mountain Revisited
Looking out toward Kayford Mountain I was surrounded by beauty, green foliage thick with birds singing. Imagining this area before Mountaintop removal was nearly impossible with the hum of bulldozers and crashing of boulders tumbling into the valleys bellow. I…
Robert Kennedy to Shoot Documentary about MTR
Yesterday, Robert Kennedy, Jr. visited Charleston, West Virginia as he compiled footage for his documentary about mountaintop removal coal mining. The film will be based on his book, Crimes Against Nature, about the Bush Administration’s rollback of environmental protections over…
Mountain Justice Summer Events This Weekend!
The MJS crew is headed to Kentucky for a weekend of music and mountains! It kicks off Friday night with two film showings at the Wiley’s Last Resort Campground (www.wileyslastresort.com): Bob Gates’ 1977 strip mining classic “In Memory of the…
Costs Surge for Building Power Plants
In the below article the New York times reports on the rising cost of power plant construction. According to the article, the cost of building both coal and nuclear power plants has increased drastically over the last two years. The…
Appalachian Voices Confirms Study Results and Then Some
In fact, projections based on the best available models and recent production trends indicate that an estimate of 26 billion tons of Appalachian reserves is quite optimistic. If reserve estimates in other areas are as overblown as those for the…
Video of Kathy Mattea’s visit to Kayford Released
To see a video of Kathy Mattea on Kayford mountain check out this site https://media.cnpapers.com/mattea/!
Kathy Mattea visits Kayford Mountain
If it hadn’t been for the swarm of video cameras and news station personel, you would not have known that there was a celebrity up on Kayford Mountain Tuesday afternoon. As country music star Kathy Mattea bounced up Kayford’s gravel…
News Briefs
Twelve arrested in protest over Marsh Fork elementary school State police arrested 12 demonstrators at the West Virginia state capitol during a peaceful protest over conditions at Marsh Fork elementary school on March 16. Holding signs asking “What would Jesus…
Uranium spill in Appalachia
A uranium spill in Erwin, TN could have been deadly, according to a Nuclear Regulatory Commission report released recently about a 2006 incident. According to the Knoxville Sentinel: “The spill last year involved about 35 liters of highly enriched uranium…
