Posted by Rob Perks in Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
The coalfields of eastern Kentucky are ground zero for mountaintop removal coal mining. Explosives rock the peaks and echo through the hollows. Twenty-story draglines scrape out enough dirt to fill several dump trucks with every scoop. Earth-movers literally move the...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
If you're looking for guaranteed belly laughs, you gotta check out failblog. There's no sense in describing the insanely funny photos -- the humor is self-explanatory. The site inspired me to create a "fail" for mountaintop removal... Reclamation Fail The above is...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Solving Global Warming
Pollution and poverty caused by the development of oil reserves have deprived tens of million of Nigerians their basic human rights, according to Amnesty International, which calls oil a "resource curse" for the region. "People living in the Niger Delta have to...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
As a reminder, later today will be a critically important Senate hearing before the Environment and Public Works subcommittee on "The Impacts of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining on Water Quality in Appalachia." The hearing (which I'll be Tweeting live!) is being...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Our friends at Appalachian Voices have a campaign to save America's Most Endangered Mountains from "strip-mining on steroids" -- otherwise known as mountaintop removal mining. The latest mountain in the cross-hairs of Big Coal is a ridge top above Wilson Creek in Kentucky. Here...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice
I had to reread this story to be sure it wasn't actually from The Onion. Taxpayer dollars going to spew propaganda to children about the wonders of coal and the benefits of MTR?Unbelievable. Sadly, outrageously, this is totally true. Yet...continued→
