Tag Archives: Kentucky

The quote of the week

Posted on December 2, 2012 | Leave a comment

“If you don’t know where you are, then you don’t know who you are.”

– Wendell Berry; farmer, poet, essayist, conservationist

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Not safe to have children in mountain homeland

Posted on July 5, 2011 | Leave a comment

And that would be Kentucky, where mountaintops are dynamited to get at coal.

http://www.kentucky.com/2011/07/03/1798418/not-safe-to-have-children-in-mountain.html

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Posted in Clean Water Act, climate change, coal, coal mining, coal-fired power plants

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Study finds more health problems among residents near mountaintop removal mines

Posted on May 14, 2011 | Leave a comment

This study’s findings are hardly surprising, given the many other ramifications of blowing up mountains to get at the coal beneath the summits. In brief, the study adds even more weight to the growing chorus of calls to HALT mountaintop removal coal mining and do so right now.

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Posted in coal, coal mining, coal-fired power plants, Kentucky, mountaintop removal, mountaintop removal coal mining, West Virginia

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My Kentucky home: A coal-mining essay from Silas House

Posted on February 20, 2011 | Leave a comment

This is a great read. And its message ought to be heeded — now — by every politicians inside the Beltway.

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Posted in climate change, coal, coal ash, coal mining, coal-fired power plants, mountaintop removal, mountaintop removal coal mining

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A battle in mining country pits coal against wind

Posted on August 15, 2010 | 1 comment

Big Coal vs. people who care about the future of their woods. The greedheads have a lot of money at their disposal. Read this in-depth feature about the long-running fight to save a mountain or waste its heritage.

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Posted in Big Coal, mountaintop removal coal mining

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