Posted by Rob Perks in Solving Global Warming
This just in: Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy, has accepted the challenge to debate environmental champion Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., senior counsel for NRDC, on energy issues. I was with Bobby last weekend in Nashville at NRDC's Music Saves Mountains campaign event, but at that time Blankenship...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Solving Global Warming
"Turn on more lights, burn more coal." -- Don Blankenship Don Blankenship is the CEO of Massey Energy, the largest coal producer in Appalachia and the most notorious perpetrator of mountaintop removal mining. Mr. Blankenship, known as "the scariest polluter in America", makes millions of dollars...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment
"I'd seen big crowds. This wasn't a big crowd. It was puny and sort of bored." -- Bill Lynch Forgive me for beating a dead horse, but I just can't resist a parting shot at Don Blankenship's pathetic Friends of...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Solving Global Warming
A few days late and a thousand dollars short. That's how I'd describe the belated victory over Verizon Wireless. I mean, I appreciate the sentiment, Lowell, but really, this embarrassing episode for your company easily could have been avoided. OK,...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Solving Global Warming
Yesterday, thousands of miners and their families trekked to the top of a reclaimed mountaintop mine site in West Virginia to celebrate Labor Day at a free concert and picnic organized by Don Blankenship, CEO of the nation's fourth-largest coal company. The event, essentially a political...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
By now it's clear that Verizon Wireless can hear us, but so far they refuse to listen. The company seems inexplicably content to weather the public firestorm it created by choosing to sponsor coal baron Don Blankenship's anti-climate "Friends of America"...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Solving Global Warming
As a long-time customer, I was appalled to learn that Verizon Wireless has hopped into bed with Don Blankenship, chairman, CEO and president of Massey Energy, one of the largest coal companies in America and one of the driving forces behind the...continued→
