Great interview with Jeff Biggers on Democracy Now! ““We All Live in the Coal Fields”: West Virginians Step Up Protests as EPA OKs New Mountaintop Removal” “At least thirty people were arrested in West Virginia Saturday as protesters marked a new phase of Operation Appalachian Spring, a campaign to end mountaintop removal mining. The protests came just [...]

Today, communities from across the world and the bay area converged on San Ramon, CA to protest and take direct action against the third largest corporation in the world, Chevron. The oil giant held it’s annual shareholder meeting deep in the belly of it’s corporate headquarters. Inside the meeting delegates from around the world, confronted [...]

Hooray for our band of happy ragged folk Tellin old stories and fireside jokes Well, living for the music, the love and the laugh Hooray for the riffraff –Casey Neill This weekend, Mountain Justice and Climate Ground Zero activists staged three coordinated actions against mountaintop removal coal mining in southern West Virginia. * Two women courageously donned respirators and [...]

The American, the journal of the conservative American Enterprise Institute, published an article today online evaluating the EPA’s biofuels mandates (a part of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act) and makes the case that biofuels are a lose-lose proposition, both for the environment and the consumer. Forcing the market to produce large amounts of renewable [...]

Appalachia is rising! Look for a summer of direct action against mountaintop removal and coal fired power plants. Police Remove 11 During Raleigh County, W.Va. Protests of Coal Sludge Dams and Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining; More Protestors Expected This Afternoon FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MAY 23, 2009 CONTACT: Sludge Watch Collective 304-854-7372 COAL RIVER VALLEY, W.Va.– This morning, eleven [...]

> Original story at Center for American Progress. Cattle graze in front of wind mills of the Spanish utility Endesa in the Eolico Park, Spain. SOURCE: AP/Javier Barbancho. By Vanessa Cárdenas | May 20, 2009 Léalo en español When so-called experts with little credibility and ties to the energy industry [...]

Woo hoo! One of the great goals of Ford Motor Company just a few short years ago was to get one national standard rather than a ‘patchwork’ of state policies. At that time, RAN’s Jumpstart Ford campaign was partnered with Global Exchange and allies, and we told Ford: Fine, great, we’d love a national standard [...]

I joined a group of activists from New York PIRG and Rainforest Action Network today outside the JPMorgan Chase annual shareholder meeting. We were at the base of the skyscraper in Manhattan’s financial district, handing out flyers outlining JPMC’s many ties to the coal industry (MTR, new coal fired power plants) to shareholders as [...]

The Australian Broadcast Corporation published a long op-ed today from the Australian Wilderness Society’s Paul Oosting, talking about Gunn’s planned pulp mill in Tasmania. Oosting makes great points, including the fact that preserving the environment is a better long term bet than destroying it. The consequences of the loss of our carbon-rich forests, full of unique [...]

The fight against Big Coal and mountaintop removal has heated up this year. While communities are resisting coal-fired power plants from coast to coast, Appalachian groups are rising up in West Virginia to be a wrench in the gears of mining companies like Massey Energy. This year 5 actions have happened in West Virginia already [...]