Hungarian sludge spill stirs up memories of Martin County, KY
The recent images of destruction from Hungary, where a flood of toxic mud from an aluminum waste pond has killed at least eight people, injured hundreds more and forced hundreds…
How Do You Spell Greenwash? P-N-C
From Wikipedia:Greenwashing (a portmanteau of “green” and “whitewash”) is a term describing the deceptive use of green PR or green marketing in order to promote a misleading perception that a…
Account of action & arrest in DC by George Lakey
George Lakey and the Earth Quaker Action Team, joined us on Monday at Appalachia Rising in Washington DC, to protest mountaintop removal mining. His account of our action at PNC…
Citizens Occupy PNC: The Bank of Mountaintop Removal
UPDATE: Four brave activists were arrested at today’s PNC sit-in, including Reverend Billy Talen, George Lakey, Alexa Ross and Liz Nerat. Today, as part of Appalachia Rising, the largest protest…
RAN Pays Illegal Dumping Fine + Video
Last week I traveled to West Virginia with a few friends and loaded a pickup truck with dirt from the coalfields. We then drove the dirt to the EPA’s headquarters…
EPA: Don’t Let King Coal Dump on US
Today RAN and our friends in DC dumped 1,000 pounds of Appalachian dirt onto the front lawn at the EPA’s headquarters. Our message? “EPA: Don’t let King Coal dump on…
EPA Visits Mountain(top Removal) In Kentucky
On Tuesday I went to the town of Hazard in Perry County, Kentucky. It’s a surreal-looking place, if you get up out of the valley onto any viewpoint the panorama…
Coal Owns Congress: Follow the Money Trail
Last week you may have heard about how International Coal Group is conspiring to pour money into three key election races in Kentucky and West Virginia. Now you can track…
Banks Bail on Coal; Top 4 banks Cut Financing for Massey Energy
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wV2w78K2YWc%26hl%3Den_US%26fs%3D1 Two years ago no bank had a policy on coal mining, and Wall Street was providing finance and credit indiscriminately to the most destructive form of mining in the…
Top 3 Ways to Rid U.S. Need for Mountaintop Removal Coal
Those of us who are working to stop mountaintop removal coal mining are often asked how the United States would meet its energy needs without coal from Appalachia. There are…
