West Virginia teachers strike to win
This episode is dedicated to the recent, inspiring and victorious teachers’ strike in West Virginia. West Virginia teachers went out on strike in late February over low pay and continued…
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West Virginia: Water safety
This can happen anywhere. Very scary with all the fossil fuels being transported by rail, trucks and pipes.
Is this what John Denver was referring to?
… in his song “Country Roads”? Country Roads, take me home To the place I belong West Virginia, mountain momma Take me home, country roads Is “mountain momma” a metaphor…
Massey WV Coal Battle Take Two: Erie, CO Citizens Fight Fracking
shutterstock_15465343 (1).jpg Erie, CO meet Naoma, WV. Though seemingly different battles over different ecologically hazardous extractive processes — hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") for unconventional gas versus mountaintop removal for coal —…
Coal Ash Sites Posing Increasing Dangers To Water Supplies, Public Health
toxins-in-water.jpg The Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) has once again put together a fantastic report regarding water contamination near coal ash disposal sites. Last year, the EIP released several reports showing…
Spruce Mine Mountaintop Removal Coal Permit Restored
mine.gif In late March, a federal court ruled to open the Spruce No. 1 mine in Logan County, WV, to mountaintop removal coal mining. The EPA had originally vetoed the…