Posted by Rob Perks in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Rising above a picturesque valley in southern West Virginia, like an oasis in the midst of coal country, Coal River Mountain represents the last, best hope for a community resisting the legacy of dirty energy in this part of Appalachia. ...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Solving Global Warming
Bo Webb is a proud and patriotic American who lives in Appalachia. A former Marine who fought for his country in Vietnam, Bo resides in the Coal River Valley of southwestern West Virginia. For years, he has fought for the region he loves as coal...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
The message was like a punch in the gut: "The blasting has begun." Coal River Mountain in southern West Virginia, heretofore America's "most endangered" mountain, is now under assualt by Massey Energy, the nation's fourth-largest coal company and the worst offender...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Go tell it on the mountain! Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is taking unprecedented action to bring to an end the saga of the infamous Spruce Mine, jamming a stake in the heart of what would have been the largest mountaintop removal project in the history...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Solving Global Warming
At a congressional hearing today on the Clean Water Act, two House representatives from West Virginia (Nick Rahall and Shelley Moore Capito) shifted the questioning to mountaintop removal coal mining during EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson's testimony. Kind of like at a hockey game when...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
Seriously, I read it in Grist, not The Onion. Reminder: In West Virginia a lot of coal is removed by...wait for it...actually removing the tops of the mountains. Below are a few photos I took in the so-called "Mountain State"...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Here we go again: Today the federal appeals court (4th Circuit) in Richmond rejected a request by public interest groups to reconsider its decision last month to overturn a lower court ruling that had curtailed mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia. With a...continued→
