Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment
The fight to ban mountaintop removal in Tennessee via state legislation may have stalled, but momentum against this reckless coal mining method continues to build. The Tennessean weighs in with a hard-hitting editorial calling for an end to this "unsustainable" mining...
Posted by Rob Perks in Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment
In case you missed it, Time magazine recently published a story (March 12) spotlighting the battle in West Virginia over mountaintop removal coal mining. This excerpt sets the tone for the piece: Some three million pounds of explosives are detonated...
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...
