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Appalachia is rising! Look for a summer of direct action against mountaintop removal and coal fired power plants.
Police Remove 11 During Raleigh County, W.Va. Protests of Coal Sludge Dams and...
Prince Charles has long been a friend of the rainforest. He’s recently recruited a few more friends to talk about how important the rainforests still are for our climate and our world. Now, more...
Sometimes in the new era of “hope†and “change,†you almost forget the way things work in the rest of the world. In West Virginia and Indiana, environmental activists using non-violent...
My friends Madeline, Charles and Jordan were part of a team that got arrested in Naoma WV today while hanging a banner on a Massey mine.
SUNDIAL, W.Va. – Three activists, who are committed to...
So there I was, thinking about this GREAT opportunity I just heard about to invest in a new coal-fired power plant.
But then, just yesterday, our own special envoy for climate change to the...
Last week, Massey Energy began dynamiting Coal River Mountain in West Virginia—the site of a proposed 328-megawatt wind farm—to prepare for a massive mountaintop removal coal mining operation.
Today, more than half a million people have received...
Cross posted from Alternet
Last week, blasting began on Coal River Mountain in West Virginia. This is a part of the country where dynamite routinely goes off — turning the region’s historic mountain ranges into dust for the tiny coal seams that lie...
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) was founded to create a path towards sustainability in the palm oil industry. A voluntary process, oil palm producers, traders, buyers, and NGO’s have joined up to find an alternative to the massive...
Execs from Arch Coal and Peabody recently joined the board of Washington University in St. Louis and then had a conf on campus called “America’s Energy Future”
Students and community activists had something to say about that (including folks from...
As I have written about on Understory before, Sumatra’s Bukit Tigapuluh is one of the last great forests of the world. It’s breathtaking biodiversity, high conservation importance, and value to three indigenous cultures withstanding, Sinar Mas...
