OVEC's Picks--Featured News
History of Cook Mountain
Gauley River Named One of Americas Most
Endangered Rivers for 2010
The study in Science Journal:
Mountaintop Mining Consequences
Mountaintop removal clarity: OK, so now what?
Time: In WV A
Battle Over Mountaintop Mining
More Magazine Online Slideshow:
Blasting Through Appalachia
The Rape of AppalachiaAn Appeal to the American
People
Kanawha State Forest and Mountaintop Removal
Bombshell study: MTR impacts pervasive and
irreversible
Head On Radio Network: Scientist
Discuss Their Study in Science Journal
Diane Rehm Show: The Ongoing Controversy Over MTR
Lindytown to be bulldozed down after Massey buys
out residents for MTR
Coal's costs outweigh benefits, WVU study finds
N Y Times Investigative Piece on Water Pollution
Features Prenter, WV
Mountaintop Mining Legacy: Destroying Appalachian
Streams
Video: People and Power
Video: Journey Up Cook Mountain
Dr. Shirley Stewart Burns on Mountaintop Removal
Smithsonian magazine, Jan. 2009: "Mining
the Mountain"
Tenn. TV Station's Week-long Series on True Costs
of Coal Featuring OVEC Members
14 cited in protest
at Massey operations
DEP unsure if coal slurry poisons water supplies;
Agency to ignore deadline for study
Big Coal residents file massive
lawsuit against coal operators
All we wanted was water
Collapse of the Clean Coal Myth
As For "Clean" Coal...
"Clean Coal" doesn't exist
A Quick Guide to Mountaintop Removal
Watch
Burning the Future: Coal In America
National Public Radio: Bush Administration Leaves
Appalachia Scarred
CNN: The Battle Over Coal River Mountain
National Public Radio Weekend Edition Saturday
Dec. 6:
OVEC Members Lucille & Leon Miller
Survey: West Virginians Want CLEAN Energy
Press Release on Survey Results
AP Slideshow: OVEC board member Larry Gibson and Coal River Mountain
Watch's Lorelie Scarbro
Julian Martin: Coal industry can't be trusted to
be responsible
Jeff Goodell in Rolling Stone: Back to Big
Coal's Campaign of Lies
Spurlock's 30 Days: Mountain Top Removal
March 2006 National Geographic
article now online: When Mountains Move
Big Coal's Campaign of Lies: While its fuel cooks the
planet, the coal industry uses its clout to dupe
consumers and delay change
Va. Environmental Groups Sue To Halt Logging At Future
Mine Site
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 wont kill economy
RFK
Jr:
The Junk Science of Bush
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: Coals 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!
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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
Gallery: Mountaintop Mining Ravages Appalachia
Mountaintop Removal Mining Permits Ruled Illegal
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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 Americas 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 doesnt 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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