Flaming wells, poisoned water show abuses of coal.

By Appalachian Voices | August 20, 2011 |

I have just returned from another epic journey into the dark side of coal mining. If you, me or anyone else in America poisoned a neighbor’s drinking water we would be castigated and made a pariah at the very least and possibly jailed for attempted murder at the worst. But if you are a coal…

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Breaking: New Study Links Mountaintop Removal to 60,000 Additional Cancer Cases

By Jeff Deal | July 27, 2011 |

by Jeff Biggers, cross posted from Alternet.org Among the 1.2 million American citizens living in mountaintop removal mining counties in central Appalachia, an additional 60,000 cases of cancer are directly linked to the federally sanctioned strip-mining practice. That is the damning conclusion in a breakthrough study, released last night in the peer-reviewed Journal of Community…

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Kentucky Coal Companies Remind Us Why We Really, Really Need the EPA

By Matt Wasson | June 28, 2011 |

The latest episode in the saga known as Big Coal’s Watergate began today when environmental and citizen groups filed a second notice of intent to sue the two largest mountaintop removal mining companies in Kentucky. Appalachian Voices, Kentuckians For The Commonwealth, Kentucky Riverkeeper, and Waterkeeper Alliance notified ICG and Frasure Creek Mining of their intent…

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Cry of the Mountain video preview

By AV's Intern Team | June 1, 2011 |

By Meg Holden A journalist and editor with a keen eye for detail, Meg served as AV’s Communications Intern for summer 2011. Often the most compelling stories are exactly that—true stories, told from the heart. In the one-woman show Cry of the Mountain, Adelind Horan portrays 13 individuals speaking in their own words about how…

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BP Oil Spill Parallels Mountaintop Removal

By Jillian Randel | April 20, 2011 |

Our Collective Voice By Jillian Randel Upon returning from a visit to the so-called “Coalfields”, author and activist, Terry Tempest Williams commented, “Just when you thought you can’t see anything worse than the Gulf Oil Spill, we went to Coal River Valley and I was shattered.” Today marks the one year anniversary of the explosion…

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Virginians Sure Do Love Mountains!

By Sandra Diaz | April 13, 2011 |

Reposted from Wise Energy for Virginia, a coalition committed to securing a clean energy future for Virginia. Appalachian Voices is a proud member. March 25th, 2011 was the second annual Virginia Loves Mountains Day. Instead of having a rally in one place as we did in 2010, this year we had a rally at each…

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National Call-in Day to End Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

By Appalachian Voices | April 5, 2011 |

By Griff Crews Communications intern, Spring 2011 The following email was sent to the 48,000+ supporters of iLoveMountains.org. To sign up to receive free email alerts, click here. At this very moment, over 150 people – concerned citizens from across the U.S. together with citizens directly impacted by mountaintop removal – are in our nation’s…

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Week in Washington Participant from Georgia: Jeremy Cherson

By Appalachian Voices | April 5, 2011 |

By Griff Crews Communications intern, Spring 2011 Over the next three days, I am going to be on Capitol Hill working with the Georgia Congressional delegation to end mountain top removal. I just met with Senator Chambliss’ environmental staffer. She spoke about Chambliss having a balance between cheap domestic energy and environmental concerns. My question…

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