... the West Virginia State Capitol in an effort to end mountaintop removal coal mining. a2a_linkname=document.title;a2a_linkurl=& ... a West Virginia elementary school imperiled by nearby mountaintop removal operation. In September he participated in a blockade of the West Virginia regional headquarters of Massey Energy, a major mountaintop removal operator, and last month he organized and led over 30 ...

Aerial shot of mountaintop removal mining, Kayford Mountain, WV. Photo courtesy of Ohio ... partnership with Appalachian Voices, has documented the impact of Mountaintop Removal Mining for coal (MTR) over a 59 ... goal of the project was to map the historical occurrence of mountaintop removal mining over a 30 year period, ... 2,700 ridges were impacted by mining.Mountaintop Removal Mines Total MTR Mined ...

... Hundreds to Converge at WV Department of Environmental Protection against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Robert Kennedy, Jr. ... ) on Monday, December 7th to call for the end to the mountaintop removal coal mining on Coal River Mountain in ... Appalachia and Rainforest Action Network who have been advocated to abolish the mountaintop removal coal mining practice. WHY: Despite regulatory violations, ...

An 81-year-old opponent of mountaintop-removal mining started a fast on Monday that he hopes will draw attention to and help end the controversial practice. Roland Micklem was camped out on a chair in a public reception area outside Gov. Joe Manchin’s office, holding a sign that explained his concerns about mountaintop removal. Micklem said he plans to

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia scolded the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Tuesday for having issued two permits for mountaintop removal coal mining that did not follow public notification laws, a decision that could lead to the resubmission of hundreds of permits for new mining across Appalachia. The Ohio ...

... is arrested during a quiet fast, mourning the destruction of mountaintop removal, while millions of pounds of explosives openly ... headquarters, and led a senior citizens march against mountaintop removal. Here's an interview with Roland Micklem ... waste. For more information, see: savecoalrivermountain.org/ Until the crime of mountaintop removal is abolished, heroes like Roland Micklem, ...

... arrested during a quiet fast, mourning the destruction of mountaintop removal--while millions of pounds of explosives openly ... headquarters, and led a senior citizens march against mountaintop removal. Here's an interview with Roland Micklem ... waste. For more information, see: savecoalrivermountain.org/ Until the crime of mountaintop removal is abolished, heroes like Roland Micklem ...

... some in the environmental community, but it is reality. It is also a reality that the practice of mountaintop removal mining has a diminishing constituency in Washington. It is not ... energy technology. The greatest threats to the future of coal do not come from possible constraints on mountaintop removal mining or other environmental regulations, but rather from rigid mindsets, depleting coal ...

... EST, we, too, will renew our ongoing opposition to another infamy, the horror of mountaintop removal as practiced all across Appalachia, and especially on the people of the Coal River Valley of West Virginia, ... down to us by our forebears, we can gain the triumph that will free Appalachia from Mountaintop Removal, from the infamy that threatens the very existence of an entire region of our country. ...

... native forests, using dynamite to blast away up to 600 feet of mountaintop to get at seams of coal, and then dumping the waste rock, called ... that will govern how companies handle fill removed from mountaintop coal seams," said Assistant Secretary for ... a statement in August before his Senate confirmation hearings. Mountaintop removal coal mining in southwest Virginia (Photo ...

By Martin Mudd Shit's getting kinda scary in the coal-fields. Coal companies are laying miners off because the demand has dropped out, but they're blaming the layoffs on "treehuggers" and basically baiting people to go get violent. The NWP21 Hearing in Pikeville, KY, was fucking insane, and at the one in Charleston, WV, apparently a Mountain Justice contingent was turned away ...

Kennedy spoke as some 300 environmental activists cheered. At the same time, 200 coal miners jeered. The groups were kept apart by a line of state troopers and metal barricades. The Virginia-based Massey plans to blast and mine thousands of acres atop the mountain, which has enough coal reserves to feed power plants for 14 years. Organizations including Coal River Mountain Watch and Climate ...

... located in Letcher County, Kentucky © Yale University Check out the information on mountaintop removal at Yale Environment 360. The video, "Leveling Appalachia,& ... It's so powerful, and so true, and it makes me so angry, I can hardly watch the whole thing. I've seen firsthand the devastation wrought by mountaintop removal in eastern Kentucky -- in Letcher County. It's horrible ...

Students Shanai Davis, Courtney Hamilton and Emily Van Pelt explored the ill effects of mountaintop mining. "The Environmental Protection Agency projects that by 2012, decades of mountaintop removal will have destroyed or degraded 11.5 percent of forests - an area as big as Delaware.

... coal mining, specifically highlighting the degradation caused by Mountain Top Removal mining featuring prominent activists Larry Gibson, Terri Blanton, ... member and organizer for Mountain Justice. He is an activist against mountain top removal and travels across America educating people on the disastrous effects of mountaintop removal Opening for the panel of environmental leaders will be a well ...