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On Tuesday I went to the town of Hazard in Perry County, Kentucky. It’s a surreal-looking place, if you get up out of the valley onto any viewpoint the panorama that should be rolling hills stretching into the horizon, is missing something. The hill tops have disappeared. It’s as if the landscape is a jigsaw [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 16, 2010
Last week you may have heard about how International Coal Group is conspiring to pour money into three key election races in Kentucky and West Virginia. Now you can track which of our elected representatives have already sold out to the coal industry, thanks to this DirtyEnergyMoney.org, a new online database from our friends at [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Two years ago no bank had a policy on coal mining, and Wall Street was providing finance and credit indiscriminately to the most destructive form of mining in the country. Bank of America, Citi, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, JPMorgan Chase, and Wells Fargo have successively passed public policies limiting their financial relationships with coal operators [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 9, 2010
Those of us who are working to stop mountaintop removal coal mining are often asked how the United States would meet its energy needs without coal from Appalachia. There are a few answers to that question… 1 Be Energy Efficient One answer is that opportunities for energy efficiency in the US are huge. Individual and [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 4, 2010
A few weeks ago, Massey Energy went on a PR offensive to promote the concept that the worst US mine disaster in 40 years – at Massey’s Upper Big Branch Mine in April – was an ‘Act of God’. First Massey General Counsel Shane Harvey told a Wall Street Journal reporter on a press conference [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 2, 2010
Earlier this year, the supreme court ruled in the “Citizens United” case that corporations can spend unlimited funds on candidate elections. The coal industry is getting set to take advantage. The Lexington Herald-Leader obtained a letter sent by Roger Nicholson, senior vice president International Coal Group to other coal companies proposing they pool their resources [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 27, 2010
News just in from the EPA: Today, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) issued a final Clean Water Act (CWA) permit to Coal-Mac Inc. for the Pine Creek Surface Mine project in Logan County, West Virginia. We had been waiting to find out what would happen with the Pine Creek permit, and when the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Over the past couple of years, several of the biggest banks in the world have released policies and statements regarding investments in the mountaintop removal coal mining industry. According to the MTR report card that RAN released earlier this year, the biggest banks in the financial sector have begun to recognize MTR as a risky [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 2, 2010
Earlier this afternoon, Reverend Billy and the Church of Life After Shopping paid a visit to the Manhattan office of UBS. Over the past two years, some of the biggest banks in the United States have developed statements regarding mountaintop removal coal mining, and started to move away from financing the practice. UBS, a Swiss [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Yesterday we learned the news that the EPA has, yet again, flip-flopped on mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining and given the go-ahead to new mining at Pine Creek in Logan County, West Virginia For West Virginia coal miner’s widow Lorelei Scarbro and leader with the Alliance for Appalachia, who has met numerous times with the [...]
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Friday, August 20, 2010
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