Coal
November 25, 2009
- posted at Huffington Post, Nov. 23, 2009 <em>If the Obama administration is unwilling or unable to stop the massive environmental destruction of historic mountain ranges and essential drinking water for a relatively tiny amount of coal, can we honestly believe they will be able to phase out coal emissions at the level necessary to stop climate change? --Dr. James Hansen,<a ...
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September 5, 2009
- Your step falls heavy on the stairs itbears the weight of age and burden and days that lost promiseit gathers the rise like a confused tidestuck on the reefOnce you took that climb three at a timeand cast sparkle into this room asyou stood by the window awarbler on a bough to cast youreyes over the clouds the black shiny roadand turning back to me you said- we have all our summers ...
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August 26, 2009
- Last fall, Tom Zeller at The New York Times Green Inc. blog wrote an eye-opening piece on a possible Indian government and corporate venture in Appalachia's coal mines. And as the Sierra Club's Carl Pope pointed out, an even bigger coal story took place this week in India. Members of parliament from various political parties in the eastern part of the state of Maharashtra put aside their ...
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June 11, 2009
- I'm excited to have my work appear in the book anthology We All Live Downstream alongside work by: • Earl Hamner (creator of the Waltons)• Ashley Judd• Robert Kennedy Jr.• Wendell Berry • Bobbie Ann Mason• Ann Pancake• Jean Ritchie• Silas House• Hal Crowther• Jeff Biggers• Denise Giardina• Pamela ...
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May 26, 2009
- from NY Indypendent, May 15, 2009When the marquee signs on Broadway light up, a signal will most likely be sent from the New York Independent System Operator grid to the Lovett coal-fired plant, where the facility service will shovel in coal strip-mined from West Virginia mountains that have been clear cut, detonated with tons of explosives and toppled into the valleys.In effect, Mayor Michael ...
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January 5, 2009
- About eighty miles from where I grew up and spent the first eighteen years of my life and forty miles from where my father lives now (and where I lived and worked for three years) in Knoxville, Tennessee, fifteen homeowners escaped with only their lives when a sludge of coal ash broke through an earthen dam and covered their houses in muck two days ago ...
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November 25, 2008
- posted on Huffington Post/Grist, November 25, 2008 Dear Al Gore,Two months ago at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, you declared that, "If you're a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that ...
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November 3, 2008
- Hold on to your electric bill ... Barack Obama is at it again. I can not believe that these truthful revelations from Barack Obama may have some who voted early asking, CAN I HAVE MY VOTE BACK?Imagine if John McCain had whispered somewhere that he was willing to bankrupt a major industry? Would this declaration not immediately be front page news? Well, Barack Obama actually flat out told the San ...
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October 20, 2008
- posted on CNN, October 7, 2008 The Wall Street crisis notwithstanding, coal continues to embroil the presidential campaign into knots unlike any other issue in the swing states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia. Take a look at the backflips by both campaigns in the last several weeks: Jumping on a not-in-my-backyard "clean coal" gaffe by Sen. Joe Biden, the ...
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May 21, 2008
- They Came Down From These Hills and Made HistoryBy JEFF BIGGERSChronicle of Higher Education, May 23, 2008After speaking at 30 universities in Appalachia and across the countryover the last couple of years, I have learned two things for sure.First, while some of the icons and milestones of the region's infamymight have faded for the new generation on our campuses, Appalachia'sreputation as a ...
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