On March 22, 1914, Mary "Mother" Jones was arrested on a train in southern Colorado for her work in fighting for the coal miners on strike that area. This was her second arrest in this conflict, as she had previously been detained by the state...
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I know I am shocked to discover that arguably the nation's leading climate change denying scientist is bought and paid for by fossil fuel corporations, including the coal industry and.
Thanks to an unfortunate combination of factors, Maryland has elected a Republican governor. They are already getting what they asked for. Larry Hogan has already withdrawn from regulations of phosphorous.
Zach Colman's longish piece is good for getting at the real reasons behind coal's decline in West Virginia. The people of that state want to blame Obama. And there's no question that Obama has issued new regulations to move us away from the dirtiest of...
Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy and one of the most detestable and immoral people living in the United States, was finally indicted for a few of his many crimes.
The coal industry has never cared about keeping workers alive. It still doesn't. And even when the companies are fined for their horrible workplace safety, some just refuse to pay,.
Ken Ward has an excellent piece on the media's complicity in the War on Coal narrative to describe the decline of coal jobs in Appalachia. In short, blame it on Obama and the hippies. This is of course absurd because the real reasons for coal's...
Thirty years ago, environmentalism was a strong enough political force that Mitch McConnell had to pretend to care about coal's impact upon the planet. Times have really changed.
Last week, I gave a talk at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, titled "Resistance in the Pennsylvania Coal Country: Past and Present," although in reality, I talked more broadly about Appalachia.
Coal billionaires are the best people: Coal mines owned by billionaire James Justice II have been cited for more than 250 environmental violations in five states with unpaid penalties worth about $2 million, according to sources and records obtained by Greenwire. Violation notices -- including...
Coal companies are openly cheating the system that monitor for coal dust that leads to black lung, misleading Mine Safety and Health Administration monitoring programs. There are so few good.
I have a piece up at Bill Moyers' site connecting the exploitation that led to the Ludlow Massacre of 1914 with coal companies exploitation of labor and degradation of nature.