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Sowing New Mustard Seeds: The Moral Question of Mountaintop Removal

By CHRISTOPHER MARTIN
Mountaintop removal is not primarily an “environmental issue,” but a moral one—a fact seldom acknowledged by those who support it. The powers that be would like the public to keep on believing that blowing up mountains is a perfectly acceptable way to get coal, and that folks who say otherwise are just left-leaning… »

Documentary raises questions about mining methods and the devastation required to meet energy needs

FILM REVIEW

By BILL GOODMAN
At the very core of our national debate over climate change, alternatives fuels and the existence of so-called “clean coal technology” comes a new and enlightening documentary that challenges conventional thinking about the mining and operation of coal companies that few people ever see.

Deep Down: A Story from the Heart… »

Tomlinson’s fictional stories reveal hard truths of mountaintop removal mining and other subjects

BOOK REVIEW

By MARY POPHAM

Fiction offers a close look at the truth in Jim Tomlinson’s group of short stories, Nothing Like An Ocean. When he delves into issues such as mountaintop removal coal mining, marriage difficulties and the loneliness of single people, he gets to reality—the heart of the subjects.
In lovely prose, Tomlinson reveals the interiority… »

Saving Mountains

Movement to end MTR gains momentum
By JASON HOWARD
Opponents of mountaintop removal mining have been wary of looking up for even a moment to savor the hard-won victories of the past year. They have stayed busy, fearful of losing ground in the fight to end this form of coal mining, which has destroyed 470 mountains in… »

A President Breaks Hearts in Appalachia

By ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.
The Washington Post
Mountaintop removal coal mining is the worst environmental tragedy in American history. When will the Obama administration finally stop this Appalachian apocalypse?
If ever an issue deserved President Obama’s promise of change, this is it. Mining syndicates are detonating 2,500 tons of explosives each day—the equivalent of a Hiroshima bomb… »