Despite India’s high profile in the recent Cancun climate talks and New Delhi’s declaration of its coal free future…
“Deep Down” Film Brings Kentucky’s Mountaintop Removal Battle to PBS Viewers
While national media attention on mountaintop removal mining has largely been focused on West Virginia, the PBS Independent Lens…
Black Lung Kills 1,000 Coal Miners Annually, But Does Anyone Care?
Whenever policy wonks or bureaucrats or business folk in temperature-controlled (coal-fired generated) offices admonish me to accept the reality…
Pattern of Violations: Black Cross Movement Calls Out Dangerous Navajo Coal Mines
As the Labor Department made an unprecedented move yesterday to file a court injunction to shut down a hazardous…
As the world continues to hail the wonderful rescue of the Chilean copper and gold miners, 37 coal miners…
Mother Jones Is Still Calling Out Deadbeat Coal Barons (on Coal Miner’s Day)
I hear Mother Jones calling. The deadbeat coal barons still need to be called out. Today is Coal Miner’s…
Goodbye Massey Coal Dust: Welcome to the Ed Wiley Elementary School!
Nearly four years ago, retired coal miner and grandfather Ed Wiley walked from Charleston, West Virginia to Washington, DC,…
Mountaintop-removal mining is one of the most environmentally destructive methods of extraction there is. As practiced by coal companies…
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