Posted by Rob Perks in Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment
If you happen to be in New Haven, Connecticut tomorrow evening, please feel free to attend a screening of the amazing Yale-produced documentary on mountaintop removal: Leveling Appalachia. During the last two decades, mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia has destroyed or...
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...
Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment
First there was Reclamation Fail (inspired by my new favorite funny website). Now there is... Grassroots Fail The back story is that the coal industry hired a PR firm to concoct this faux grassroots group to support its dirty energy...
Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court made a dreadful decision to allow the dumping of toxic gold mine waste into a pristine Alaskan lake. The court deemed this pollution allowable as "fill material" under the Clean Water Act. Well, last night on The Colbert...
