If not mountaintop removal or coal mining in central Appalachia, then what? What can we do with displaced strip…
Morning After Appalachia Rising
Since I don’t have a television at home, when I’m in a motel I can’t help but surf around…
SOS: Day 12,065 of Mountaintop Removal Disaster: Appalachia is Rising (Again)
This article originally appeared on The Huffington Post. Summertime, and the livin’ is easy in the coalfields — except…
But pith and power ’till my last hour I’ll make this declaration. We were bought and sold for English…
Dark Secret of World Water Day: Coal-Fired Plants Drink 1.5 Trillion Gallons, Then We Drink Backwash
Here’s a sobering fact on World Water Day: Coal-fired power plants use approximately 1.5 trillion gallons of water a…
By Jeff Friedrich Jeff Biggers is a journalist, cultural historian and prolific blogger. He has written extensively on the…
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14 People Arrested Protesting Mountaintop Removal Mining in West Virginia
14 People Arrested Protesting Mountaintop Removal Mining in West Virginia By Jessica Lee MountainAction.org is reporting that 14 people…
Raising the Dead: Memorial Day Activists Jailed in Protest to Stop 998 Coal Sludge Deaths
Raising the Dead: Memorial Day Activists Jailed in Protest to Stop 998 Coal Sludge Death By Jeff Biggers, originally…
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