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According to GreenBiz.com The Sierra Club enjoyed a victory last week when a Utah-based utility announced it would walk away from plans to build a coal-fired generating unit in the state. According to the environmental group’s tally, 100 coal plants have been foiled or abandoned since 2001, the beginning of an era it dubbed the…

Wonderful news: 2 new co-sponsors bring us up to a new record. See if your Representative is signed on — and ask them to join if they aren’t — and email them thanks if they are. Our two new Reps: Representative Marcia Fudge, 2nd term Democratic congresswoman from Ohio’s 11th district became the 154th (including…

Read the post at ScSaysNo.com HERE.

When Old Dominion Electric Cooperative (ODEC) decided that the small town of Dendron, Virginia, would be the future site of a 1500 megawatt, behemoth of a coal-fired power plant, they probably did not imagine that they would face a tremendous obstacle in the citizens of Dendron. A small town of 300 people surrounded by soybeans…

Read the new report here and see http://www.kftc.org/our-work/stop-smith for more information. MORE THAN 8,000 NEW CLEAN ENERGY JOBS POSSIBLE IN KENTUCKY, ACCORDING TO NEW REPORT Investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy show higher job potential than in new coal facilities. A projected 8,750 new jobs in the energy efficiency and renewable energy sectors, spread…

As reported by the The Associated Press in the Huntington Herald-Dispatch: CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Dismissing a recent state study as inadequate, activists who oppose the underground injection of coal slurry told lawmakers Wednesay the practice should be banned outright as a precaution. They also want a state health department study on the health effects…

Ken Ward Jr. of the Charleston Gazette reports on his Coal Tattoo blog: Tomorrow’s edition of the Federal Register (available here by the magic of the Internet) will include this notice from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, making good on part of the Obama administration’s plans for dealing with mountaintop removal coal mining. As…

Sit down on a porch with someone from the American South and you’ll learn why the region is renowned for its storytelling tradition. In the book Something’s Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal (University Press of Kentucky), authors Silas House and Jason Howard tell the story of mountaintop removal coal mining through the voices of 12…

Congressman Kennedy said these words earlier this year when speaking to a group of Appalachian citizens, and I hope we can all keep them close to heart: Unfortunately, we live in a culture that places a value on human beings according to how much money they have. If you happen to be wealthy, you must…