Over the past months, I have spent a lot of time writing and talking about the environmental crisis in Appalachia around the coal industry. This week, I took a heartbreaking, yet inspiring, trip to the mountains of West Virginia to spend some time with folks working to stop strip mining and mountaintop removal throughout [...]

Horrible reports coming this morning from Nigeria. A gas pipeline exploded killing between 150-200 people after a leak in the pipeline caught fire igniting scores of people scavenging for fuel to sell. An explosion of this type doesn’t leave a pretty picture and hundreds of bodies were found with a 3 mile radius of the [...]