Written by JW Randolph

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JW Randolph

Raised on the banks of the Tennessee River, JW's work to create progress in his home state and throughout Appalachia has been featured on the Rachel Maddow Show, The Daily Kos and Grist. He served first as Appalachian Voices’ Legislative Associate and then Tennessee director until leaving to pursue a career in medicine in 2012.

Follow the Coal Money to Your Congress-Critter

We all know that coal poisons our planet,…

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Mountain Mondays: Coal pulls a “Gas Prices”

Over the last year, we’ve seen the price…

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Major Discovery Primed To Unleash Solar Revolution

By mimicking plants’ energy storage systems, MIT scientists…

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Mountain Monday: Is Coal the New Oil?

An every day fossil fuel… An influential lobby…

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Mountain Monday: Gauley Mountain, WV

Until the mid-twentieth century, Ansted, West Virginia was…

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We CAN NOT Mine Our Way to Cheap Electricity

Via the Energy Information Administration this morning, we…

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Mountain Monday: 10 Years of Coal

Welcome to Mountain Monday, spreading the word about…

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Al Gore on MTR / Coal-to-Liquid Fuels

(h/t wvblueguy over at WVaBlue)

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Mountain Monday: 300 Blogs and a Swarm of Angry New Yorkers!

It doesn’t always occur to us that our…

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Mountain Monday: What is a Mountain Monday?

Home is an invention on which no one…

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