Coal Train Uprisings
Can Historic Actions This Week Stop Coal in Its Tracks?
The Indypendent
Jeff Biggers
Not quite a year ago, NASA climatologist James Hansen joined hundreds of Appalachian coalfield activists, including Teri Blanton, Maria…
Humanitarian Crisis: Appalachian Leaders Launch Mountaintop Removal Moratorium Now Campaign
“Living in a mountaintop mining area was a bigger risk for birth defects than smoking.”–Dr. Michael Hendryx, West Virginia…
Did Arizona Education Chief Huppenthal Commit a Felony in Growing Ethnic Studies Scandal?
While the occasional spasms of extremist rhetoric and legislative initiative are often dismissed as nutty episodes in Arizona Gone…
Next Steps for Anti-Mountaintop Removal Movement: Interview With Appalachian Leader Bo Webb
This article was originally published on the Huffington Post. “Next Steps for the Anti-Mountaintop Removal Movement” will be a…
Arizona’s Witch Hunt of Mexican/Ethnic Studies Begins This Week?
Only days after the Arizona state legislature voted for punishing budget cuts in education, the now infamous witch hunt…
Tim DeChristopher Deserves the Medal of Freedom, Not a Prison Sentence
When President Obama conferred the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal on several American heroes yesterday,…
Governor’s Sit-In Day Two: Why Kentucky Can’t Wait
As the nation’s beloved author/farmer philosopher Wendell Berry settled his 76-year-old lanky frame onto the floor of Kentucky Gov.…
Interview with Rory McIlmoil, “Tesla of the Coalfields” on Green Jobs
Is the EPA destroying the coalfield economies? Will good green jobs come to the coalfields?Ask Rory. Or, as GOP…
Yes, Virginia, This Dirty Coal Bill is a Bad Bar Room Romance–and the Nation is Watching
Taking their cue from the widely disgraced West Virginia politicos and Big Coal lobbyists, some legislators in Virginia are…