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(Great story, originally posted by our friend Jeff Biggers at Huffington Post. Thanks Jeff! – jdub) As the brilliant lights of the White House shine across Pennsylvania Avenue Monday evening, generated by a coal-fired plant that uses coal stripmined from devastating mountaintop removal operations in Appalachia, religious leaders and organizations representing over 45 million Americans…

At Least 3 Members of Congress Received Forged Letters from Disgraced Firm There have been some very interesting developments since we first posted about Bonner and Associates fraudulent attempt at influencing votes on climate legislation. There is a great rundown at Enviroknow and I suggest you check out the whole thing, but the bottom line…

In wake of “soft market, high costs” Patriot Coal will be closing the gigantic Samples MTR mine in Boone County New production numbers from the Energy Information Administration, coupled with the news that Patriot Coal will be ceasing operations at one of West Virginia’s largest mountaintop removal mines paints a bleak economic picture for Central…

Polluting Industries Caught Forging Support When you are a small non-profit working to reform billion dollar industries, you can take some solace when the other side is damaging their own case far more seriously than regular citizens ever could. The last few days have been a highlight reel of the fossil fuel lobby tripping over…

Announced yesterday on their blog: http://aaenvironment.blogspot.com/ AAEA opposes mountaintop removal. The Clean Water Protection Act, H.R. 1310 was introduced by Congressman Frank Pallone (D-NJ) on March 4, 2009 and amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to define “fill material” to mean any pollutant that replaces portions of…

Al Jazeera English, the world’s first global English language news channel to be headquartered in the Middle East, aired a ten-minute segment on the energy future war taking place in West Virginia coalfields, and focuses on the struggle over Coal River Mountain.

Unofficial transcript on mountaintop removal question: I think everybody acknowledges it, the President has said it, everybody we talk to acknowledges that there are serious impacts associated with mountaintop mining and we have to address that. Going forward we have to look at what we can do under existing authority to strengthen the oversight of…

PayPal ordering for Still Moving Mountains: The Journey Home is now available. Cost is $15 plus shippping. For bulk rates, please contact us. Alternatively, you may contact us to request a CD and arrange payment. Request alternative payment Jeff Biggers wrote a stunning review of a great new CD that aims to raise awareness about…

Shortly after a Senate sub-committee hearing on the anti-mountaintop removal bill the Appalachia Restoration Act (co-sponsored by Senator Lamar Alexandar [R-TN] and Senator Ben Cardin [D-MD]), a letter was released to the public detailing how two subsidiary companies of Arch Coal were encouraging their employees and families to boycott Tennessee in response to Sen. Alexander’s…

GetEnergySmartNow.com posted an article today examining the escalating violence in the West Virginia coalfields between proponents and opponents of mountaintop removal coal mining. Threats of violence, both in written form and verbally, are growing on a daily basis. Videos posted to YouTube from the June 23 Marsh Fork Elementary School anti-mountaintop removal rally and from…