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 Charles Koch's foundation. Who could have predicted this outcome!
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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 Larry Hogan has already withdrawn from regulations of phosphorous.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.
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 yesterday. Don Blankenship, the longtime chief executive officer of Massey Energy, was indicted Thursday on...
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.
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.
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 jobs in West Virginia and rural Kentucky that they can easily intimidate most employees into...
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.
Republicans may hate national parks, but they love dumping coal waste into streams. The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill that would allow coal mining companies to.