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OVEC's Picks--Featured News

Richard Heinberg: Coal in the United States

Washington Post: Stripping Mountains to Power DC

WVU study finds high illness, death rates in coalfields

Toronto Star on Mountaintop Removal

New York Times: Taking On a Coal Mining Practice as a Matter of Faith

Watch Bill Moyers on America: "Is God Green?"

 

Remember the studies: Mountaintop removal mining limits won’t kill economy

Coal River: An American Story

2008 Reel Current Award winner:  "Mountain Top Removal"

Nightline: Massey Coal's Don Blankenship Shows his Hand

Gift card option irritates friends of coal industry

If you shop at Kroger, you can support OVEC without adding to your grocery bill

Tenn. legislators lobbied on mountaintop removal bill by Kathy Mattea

Their Stories: Meet Larry, Maria and Ed

Al Gore: We Must Act Now 

The Story of Stuff

E-Magazine:  Ravaging West Virginia for "Clean Coal" and The Myth of Clean Coal

Boston Globe: Coal’s Ascent Is Re-Igniting Familiar Debate

On This Earth: A site out of sight

STOP THE DINOSAURS, LET THE SUN SHINE IN

HNN video of Kayford Mountain

Legal Victory!  Read the Judge's Order

Grist Articles on OVEC members fighting MTR

Frontline on the Politics of Global Warming

OSM proposes exempting fills from buffer rule

CNN Hero: Mountain Keeper and OVEC Board Member Larry Gibson

Gallery: Mountaintop Mining Ravages Appalachia

Mountaintop Removal Mining Permits Ruled Illegal - Read the Judge's Decision

Former Regulator: Mine Law Not Working--"You see absolute environmental devastation, poverty"

Best Energy Strategy: Small, Green And Local

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. lists mountaintop removal as a Crime Against Nature

Slideshow: Mountaintop Removal

Ads Featured on DC Metro Trains & Stations

The New Eco-Terrorists

Jeff Goodell: What It Costs Us

Kathy Mattea: Mountaintop Removal "Devastating"

Video: Kathy Mattea Mountaintop Removal Tour

Living on Earth: Learning In the Shadow of Coal

Bringing Down The Mountains (pdf)

Denise Giardina: Mountaintop removal not about creating jobs

Terry Steele: UMWA member, OVEC member

The Economist: Battle of the mountain tops

Video: Regulators ignored Massey violations for years

Video: Massey CEO --The Kingmaker

The first solar-hydrogen residence in US

Rising Tide: The Fight Against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

From July- Aug. 1999 Mother Jones Magazine: Razing Appalachia

Audubon Photo Essay: Scarface

Grist: Go Tell It on the Mountain

Chopping Down The Mountains Of Appalachia 

World has under decade to act on climate crisis

Healing Appalachia: Sustainable Living Through Appropriate Technology

How the Bush administration reversed decades of progress

Meet OVEC Board Member Gibson and Organizer Gunnoe

Massey Energy CEO Blankenship Fails

Ignore Eco-Destruction at Your Peril, Corporations Warned

Roanoke Times: More Campuses Opposing Mountaintop Removal

Charleston Gazette: Coal gives millions to candidates

Feeling the Heat: Global Warming and Rising Temperatures in the United States

It's hotter than usual In W.Va., analysis shows

May 2006 Vanity Fair: The Rape Of Appalachia

March 2006 National Geographic: When Mountains Move

Grist: Blast Rites

Orion: Whither Wind?

American School Board Journal: The Mine Next Door

Columbus Dispatch: Scalped for Coal

The Battles of Blair Mountain

Bob Edwards: Battered, but not defeated

Janet Keating: Is Blankenship's concern really for 'sake of the kids'?

Vivian Stockman: Coal-to-liquid doesn't make sense for economy, environment

Coal Operating in Soviet Style Economy

On Wisconsin: Dianne Bady--Moving Mountains

The False Promise of 'Clean Coal'

Mine 'reclamation' leaves grass--not employment

Corps suspends mining permits

Roanoke Times: Moving the Mountains

West Virginia Global Warming Gases Rising

The Hottest Hoax Around

"Coal Rush” Threatens America’s Energy Security

Natural History Magazine: Cooking the Climate with Coal

"Must Read": Big Coal (features OVEC members and staff)

Bringing Down the Mountains (PDF of PhD Dissertation)

Vanity Fair May 2006: The Rape of Appalachia

OVEC lawsuit: Judge blocks expansion of Massey mine

Almost Flat, West Virginia

Christian Science Monitor: Dispute in coal country

James Gustave Speth: Time Is Running Out To Change The Politics Of Pollution And Depletion

Bill Moyers: Time for Heresy

The Coal Mine Next Door

Grist: Moving Mountains  -  We Live It Every Day

Nuclear energy not sustainable says leading institute

Tragic Mountains

Add to Bush's follies the rape of his own country

Variety of new books, articles focus on mining damage

Truthout Videos: Almost Level West Virginia, Go Tell it on the Mountain, Pennies of Promise

Herald Dispatch: Massey at center of its 'total environment'

Waterkeeper: The Coal Truth

From Mountaintop to Moonscape

Int'l Radio: OVEC's Janet Keating on Leadership

NPR's Living on Earth: Lost Mountain

Audubon Magazine 2001: Mountain Madness

Clamor Magazine on Mountaintop Removal

DEP settling hundreds of Massey violations

E Magazine: In Defense of Mountains

James Lovelock: The Revenge of Gaia

Orion Magazine: Moving Mountains

Democracy Now: Whistleblower on Mining Safety Regs

New York Times: Black Gold or Black Death?

Ain't no mountain

Scalping the land for coal

Kentucky's Underground Economy

James Lovelock: The Earth is about to catch a morbid fever that may last as long as 100,000 years

Environment in crisis: 'We are past the point of no return'

Death of a Mountain

Global Warming: 7 Hard Realities for Americans

‘Clean coal’ myth concerns activists

Earth to ELF: Come In, Please

The Price of Oil

Court Rules in Favor of Mountaintop Mining

Administration Ignores Scientific Evidence and Pushes Forward with Mountaintop Removal

The Nov. 2005 Hightower Lowdown: Our oldest mountains are being blown away

'Clean coal' cash better spent on solar research

One Roof at a Time

Mining 'is turning Eastern Kentucky into a despicable latrine'

The Nov. 2005 Hightower Lowdown: Our oldest mountains are being blown away

Coal industry's models of success are false fronts

When will next coal sludge disaster hit?

Settlement doesn't clear Massey, MSHA

Coal plays part in lives of all Kentuckians

Nature Deficit

Dirty Money: As coal plants win the right to burn dirtier and dirtier, the administration is subsidizing coal as the “clean fuel” of the future

Julian Martin: There is no such thing as clean coal

Bryan McNeil: Coal companies trample on public, private property

Reducing pollutants from electricity generation helps economy, study finds

Nuclear energy can't solve global warming; Other remedies 7 times more beneficial

Mining destroys land, spirit

Mining, reclamation facts aren't pretty

Nature's water "factories" under threat

Ky. Authors' Statement on Mountaintop Removal  

VICTORY! A New Campaign to Preserve an Old Mining Battlefield

The Appalachians

‘Clean’ coal doesn’t protect environment

CRMW: ‘Reclamation' is not at all what it seems

Judy Bonds: Mountain Defender

Browse coal industry Web site for trip though the looking glass

Jack Spadaro: End MTR Before Too Late

The Story of Jack Spadaro: Under Mined

London Guardian: Mountaintop Removal Creates Wasteland; Coalfield Residents Fight Back

Vivian Stockman: Behind the Scenes

Green Energy -- $100 Billion Market in Decade
 

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