Tennessee Coal Disaster: A Nightmare Before Christmas
Imagine an Olympic size swimming pool brimming with highly toxic waste. Now imagine over 1,600 such sludge-filled pools -- or about a billion gallons. That's...
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Imagine an Olympic size swimming pool brimming with highly toxic waste. Now imagine over 1,600 such sludge-filled pools -- or about a billion gallons. That's...
This morning I dropped by the local studio of Pacifica radio station (WPFW 89.3FM) to be interviewed on the show EarthbeatRadio about the coal industry's...
Everyone realizes that America is dangerously addicted to oil. What people need to know is that if crude oil is cocaine , tar sands oil from Canada is crack ...
The 80-square mile Hobet 21 mine (above), near Danville, West Virginia, is due to expand fivefold -- like other mountaintop removal operations it will yield...
I was flummoxed...flabbergasted...dumbstruck...by the headline of this recent opinion column in the Tucson Citizen : "Consider coal as gift this holiday season...
Our friends at Appalachian Voices have a campaign to save America's Most Endangered Mountains from "strip-mining on steroids" -- otherwise known as mountaintop...
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