Tree-Sitters Shut Down Infamous Mountaintop Removal Operation; TVA Cops Strike Again
Perched on 60-foot-high platforms in tulip poplar and oak trees, three nonviolent tree-sitting protestors associated with Climate Ground Zero and Mountain Justice carried out the duty of the EPA and the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection this morning–they reportedly shut down the reckless mountaintop removal blasting at the controversial Bee Tree Strip Mine on [...]
Remembering the Kingston, Tenn., coal-ash disaster
by Ken Ward Jr. A year ago next Tuesday, at about 1 a.m., a coal-ash dike ruptured at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston Plant near the junction of the Emory and Clinch rivers in East Tennessee. An estimated 1 billion gallons of toxic coal ash spilled into nearby streams, fields and homes. The disaster revealed [...]
