Jeff Biggers Call it a moment of truth for Big Coal—and a small crack in the wall of denial for the U.S. Congress and the White House. On the cliff of bankruptcy, St. Louis-based Patriot Coal Corporation agreed this week to a settlement to phase out its large-scale strip mining and mountaintop removal operations in […]
In the tranquil, misty mountains of southwest Virginia, the coal industry is trying to build its very own road to nowhere. King Coal’s latest scheme is to try and take $2 billion of federal funds—our tax dollars—to build the Coalfields Expressway through rural Southwest Virginia. Coal companies plan to use mountaintop removal mining to flatten […]
Energy Action Coalition More than 50 youth vote activists with the Energy Action Coalition rallied outside of the Obama for America campaign headquarters in Chicago yesterday, calling on President Obama and Mitt Romney to take action to address climate change and support clean energy. The rally coincided with the release of Mitt Romney’s energy plan, […]
Natural Resources Defense Council A warning of hexavalent chromium pollution in the ground water hangs on a fence in Hinkley, California. The movie “Erin Brockovich” with Julia Roberts chronicled Hinkley’s uphill fight and ultimate win against Pacific Gas and Electric. Photo by David Danelski/The Press-Enterprise. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Environmental Working […]
Food & Water Watch BP’s Atlantis Oil and Gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico. What could be so wrong with BP’s Atlantis oil and gas facility that the company is willing to sacrifice profits and many thousands of barrels of oil a day to shut it down? This question lies at the heart of […]
Coalition Against Nukes Thousands of anti-nuclear activists from across the U.S. will converge on Washington, D.C. this Sept. 20 – 22 for a Rally for a Nuclear-Free Future. The three-day event, brought together by the grassroots network Coalition Against Nukes (CAN), will feature a Congressional briefing on nuclear dangers attended by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (OH), […]
Sierra Club Twilight Surface Mine, Independence Coal Co., in Boone County. W.Va. Photo by Vivian Stockman, www.ohvec.org. Flyover courtesy SouthWings.org. Today, a coalition of citizen and environmental groups took action to stop pollution coming from nine different West Virginia coal mining facilities owned by subsidiaries of Alpha Natural Resources. The mines, located in Logan, McDowell, […]
DeSmogBlog By Steve Horn How do you sell a rotten bag of goods? Rule number one of effective propaganda: repackage it into something seemingly less grotesque. In that spirit, the Houston Chronicle recently reported the American Petroleum Institute (API) has created yet another front group, this one to promote tar sands crude, one of the dirtiest sources of fuel in the world, as a safe and […]
Oil Change International By Andy Rowell Sometimes the best things in life are so simple. What better way to protest against the sponsorship of the arts by Big Oil than to undertake your own protest art installation? [vimeo_embed http://player.vimeo.com/video/45369224 expand=1] And what is more fitting than a real wind turbine—a symbol of renewable energy—for the […]
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