NIKE Runs Mountaintop Removal Football Ad, Disrespects Coal Miners
Why Ken Hechler’s Senate Campaign Matters
By Jeff Biggers Forget the dogs days of August. Amid the ruins of the clean energy and climate change legislation, one statewide election has emerged as a bellwether for the green and climate justice movements: Ken Hechl[...]
WV Environmental Group Challenges US Senate Seat Contenders
WV Environmental Group Challenges US Senate Seat Contenders to Over Flight of Mountaintop Removal Sites HUNTINGTON, W.VA. – The Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (OVEC) is challenging all candidates vying for the U.S[...]
Hearing set on Marsh Fork coal dust case
by Ken Ward Jr. MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — A Raleigh County judge will hold a hearing later this month on a medical monitoring lawsuit claiming hundreds of children were exposed to toxic coal dust from a Massey Energy Co[...]
SOS: Day 12,065 of Mountaintop Removal Disaster
Appalachia is Rising (Again) Summer time, and the livin’ is easy in the coalfields–except from dust to dawn, when untold millions of pounds of explosives are detonated across 24 states in the nation, raining [...]
Al Franken: Help me fight this! VIDEO
Over the weekend, Sen. Al Franken (D.-Minn.) made the corporate takeover of our media, and the government’s acquiescence to these corporations, frighteningly clear. Franken told more than 2,000 bloggers and organiz[...]
Glenn Beck’s new book club pick: Nazi sympathizer who praised Hitler and denounced the Allies
Glenn Beck holding Elizabeth Dilling’s The Red Network. by Eric Hananoki On his radio show today, Glenn Beck heralded and promoted the work of Nazi sympathizer Elizabeth Dilling, who spoke at rallies hosted by the [...]
Massey urges Congress to hold off safety reforms
The face of a homicidal maniac? by Ken Ward Jr. That high-powered public relations and lobbying firm hired by Massey Energy to help the company after the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster is pushing the idea that federal la[...]
Massey Energy Receives Safety Award?
Massey Operations Honored with Prestigious Safety Awards JULIAN, W.Va., May 28, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –Massey Energy Company (NYSE: MEE) today announced that nine of its operations have been honored for thei[...]
Dead miner’s father: MSHA let us down
by Ken Ward Jr. BECKLEY, W.Va. — Gary Quarles, the father of Upper Big Branch Disaster victim Gary Wayne Quarles, just told the House Labor Committee that federal regulators failed the miners killed in the April 5 disa[...]
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NIKE Runs Mountaintop Removal Football Ad, Disrespects Coal Miners
If we are to remain leaders in the green economy, then we have to be relentless in our pursuit of clean energy. We have to constantly evaluate all aspects of our energy footprint. Find opportunities to collaborate and partner with other companies and organizations. And as one of Nike’s long-held business maxims so aptly declares, [...]
Why Ken Hechler’s Senate Campaign Matters
By Jeff Biggers Forget the dogs days of August. Amid the ruins of the clean energy and climate change legislation, one statewide election has emerged as a bellwether for the green and climate justice movements: Ken Hechler’s campaign against Gov. Joe Manchin to fill the late US Sen. Robert Byrd’s pivotal seat in Congress. From [...]
