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What’s going on around North Carolina, with an everlasting tip-of-the-hat to NC ConNet. Are there organizations in other states that do what they do? Compile all the major environmental stories from state and national media and send it out in a daily email? Its great! Attorney General Roy Cooper has been hard at work to…

Chris Irwin at United Mountain Defense just delivered one of the most awesome point-by-point refutation of every coal industry talking point ever. Stat-by-stat, and state-by-state, Chris refutes Congressman Duncan’s (R TN-1) silly hogwash about “jobs and economics and helping poor people” as the reason for continuing mountaintop removal and strip mining. Everyone, by now, should…

[Kentucky] Some timber-cutters in Kentucky are reviving an environmentally friendly practice that traces to the state’s frontier days. “Horse-loggers,” as they are often called, are using draft horses and mules to snake logs from the forest. The practice can lessen the damage to many immature trees and other woodland plants that might be crushed by…

Jeff Goodell’s Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America’s Energy Future has been making quite a splash nationwide. Corey S. Powell just gave it a rave review over at the little ol’ New York Times. Folks interested can also read the first chapter of Big Coal, excerpted here … One of the triumphs of modern…

THE BALLAD OF BLANKEY CRACKETT Words by P. J. Laska to the tune of “The Ballad of Davey Crockett” Born on a mountaintop removed by greed Sorriest sight in the land of the freed. Raised in destruction, that’s all he knows. Tears up the land wherever he goes. Blankey, Blankey Crackett King of the Coal…

(Now say that five times fast…we don’t get to say it that often! Masseyoperationstwicecitedformuddingandfloodslides!) Coal operations managed by Massey Energy and International Coal Group (ICG) are being blamed for mudslides this week as the mid-Atlantic states face torrential rains. Near Ethel, WV, State Rt. 17 was blocked completely… and the WV Department of Environmental protection…

Jeff Goodell, author of Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America’s Energy Future, just wrote a terrific editorial in the New York Times called Our Black Future, which touches on the growing need and want of coal in supplying America energy. Now that the need for greater energy independence has become a universal political slogan,…

Everybody these days knows at least something about ozone. It’s that gas that helps protect the planet from solar radiation. There’s a hole in it somewhere, and it keeps getting bigger blah blah blah. What a lot of people don’t know is that ozone is a very common air pollutant, produced primarily by cars and…

[New Jersey] Senesco Technologies, Inc. (“Senesco” or the “Company”) (AMEX:SNT) and ArborGen, LLC, the Company’s forestry product co-development partner, announced ArborGen’s decision to exercise its option to license Senesco’s technology. ArborGen’s decision is based on positive results from the first year of field trials. Senesco and ArborGen have collaborated over the past four years in…

Ecosystems containing many different plant species are not only more productive, they are better able to withstand and recover from climate extremes, pests and disease over long periods, according to a new study. It is the first experiment to gather enough data–over a sufficient time and in a controlled environment–to confirm a 50-year scientific debate…