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Massey Energy Attacks “Tree-Hugging Environmentalists”

We treehuggers are always ruining everything for big dirty companies like Massey Energy. They sure weren’t too pleased when a group of activists – including Darryl Hannah and Dr. James Hansen – blocked a road near a coal processing plant in West Virginia to protest mountaintop removal mining and the effects it could have on [...]

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95-Year-Old Activist Arrested Trying to Save Kids from Coal Sludge

Last June, Daryl Hannah, Dr. James Hansen and 29 others were arrested in Raleigh County, West Virginia while protesting outside a Massey Energy subsidiary’s coal processing plant. Hannah, an outspoken activist, got a lot of press for her role in the mountaintop removal protest – including here on EarthFirst – but perhaps the more interesting [...]

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EPA Halts Mountaintop Removal Mining Projects

The Environmental Protection Agency has put hundreds of mountaintop removal mining projects on hold while they evaluate the impact on streams and wetlands, officials announced on Tuesday. Mountaintop removal mining is an extremely environmentally damaging process, which allows coal mining companies to dump waste from mountaintop mining into certain waterways.
From The Huffington Post:
The EPA said [...]

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Can the Power of Oprah Stop Mountaintop Removal Mining?

Oprah Winfrey has what some people might call a grotesque amount of influence over Americans – particularly women of a certain age. She says she likes something on her show, and hours later it’s sold out. She goes on a certain diet, and millions of people across the country do the same. So, now that [...]

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Tell Obama To End Mountaintop Removal

Local, state, and regional organizations across Appalachia are working together to end mountaintop removal through their program iLoveMountains.org. They’re urging people to sign a petition to ask Obama to end mountaintop removal.

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Morgan Spurlock Hits the West Virginia Coal Mines for ’30 Days’

Coal has certainly taken a beating lately, reputation-wise. Websites like Coal-is-Dirty.com highlight all of the problems with using coal as an energy source, not the least of which is the astounding amount of pollution it produces – which not only harms the environment, but is a serious health hazard as well. That doesn’t mean that [...]

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