Another shiny coal industry front group. How authentic. … The coal industry PR generators must be running low on fuel, because they have been misfiring repeatedly over the course of the Summer, and it looks like they may have another…

And you’re probably not invited. … On September 7th, a bunch of celebrities are throwing a party with Massey Energy to wrap themselves in the flag and put on a big event called the “Friends of America Rally.” The featured…

Polluting Industries Forging Support Suprise!, Still?, Again!?!. Wow. And its not just us craaaaaaaazy environmentalists: Thanks to our friends at Public Citizen!

According to a Grist blog posted today titled “A Farce to be Reckoned With,” a Pennsylvania coal-industry group calling itself Families Organized to Represent the Coal Economy (FORCE) isn’t actually comprised of families after all. Instead, membership criteria is limited…

No, not that kind of spring. I got so excited to see this headline “WV Town to Get Clean Water by spring.” See, I thought to myself, there still are still amazing clean spring-water sources left in some parts of…

The coal industry and their associated front groups like to claim that coal provides more than half of our electricity. This was once true, but has not been the case for several years. As we’ve reported throughout the year, the…

We noted recently that Nancy Sutley, President Obama’s Chair for the Council on Environmental Quality, recognized that there are significant impacts from mountaintop removal (you’ve got to start somewhere right?). Sutley also said that stricter oversight of mountaintop removal may…

Decision opens the door for more destruction in Appalachia FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – August 11, 2009 Contacts: Janet Keating, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, 304.360.4201 Oliver Bernstein, Sierra Club, 512-289-8618 Joe Lovett, Appalachian Center for the Economy & the Environment, 304-645-9006…

Hope.