Activists Block Entrance to DEP Headquarters,
Condemn Failed Enforcement
appalachia
Oh Hells Yeah! Anti-MTR Activists Take Action Against Failed Regulatory Agency
Climate Ground Zero Blocks Entrance to DEP Headquarters, Condemn Failed Enforcement
BREAKING:RAN Activists Send Message to Massey CEO Don Blankenship at the National Press Club: “Your coal is not Clean, Safe or F
Blankenship Confirms that Coal Kills: "I'm a realist...Accidents are unavoidable."
RAN activists just disrupted Massey CEO Don Blankenship’s talk at the National Press Club sending him a strong message:“Your coal is not Clean, Safe or Forever.” They were eventually escorted out by security.
Breaking:Activists Stop Strip Mining Machine on Coal River Mountain
Four lock themselves to equipment to stop MTR operations
“It was usually around July you could go up there and sit and it was like the annual bear gathering up there… The whole area was full of laurels. The bears had tunnels through them, it was so thick…What’s going on today you know with the Brushy Fork of course, that whole area has just about been stripped out now, and that’s all been taken away.” Ed Wiley on Coal River Mountain.
EPA’s New Guidelines Promising Strict Enforcement of Mountaintop Removal…. Not So Strict
EPA Approves Pine Creek Permit Allowing for More Destruction
How long before the compromisers at the EPA and in the Obama administration figure out that there is no kinder gentler version of mountaintop removal coal mining.
Activists Send Message at Massey Energy Hearing: “Coal is Dangerous”
Blankenship Appears Before Senate Committee Defending Safety Violations
Washington, D.C. (5/20/10)— Today activists with the Rainforest Action Network attended the 2:00pm Massey Energy hearing before the Senate HELP (Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions) Committee. RAN activists were present to ensure that Massey’s controversial CEO, Don Blankenship, was held accountable for his role in the April 5, 2010 Upper Big Branch mine explosion where 29 miners tragically died.
Two Anti-MTR Non-Violent Activists in West Virginia Held on $100,000 bail each
Activists Given Outrageous Bails While Criminal CEO Blankenship Walks Free
If you want to support them, please donate to the legal fund.
Climate Ground Zero Blockades Coal Giant Massey's HQ in West Virginia
“Stop Putting Profits Over People & Mountains,” say Protestors Blocking Road to Massey Regional HQ in Boone County
UPDATE: Blockade is down. Activists in custody.
Read the letter from the blockaders to Massey shareholders.
Climate Ground Zero Activist Sentenced to 60 Days
Three Contempt Charges for Roselle
Activist Sentenced to 60 Days; Three Contempt Charges for Roselle
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 4/28/10
Mountain-a-lujah! There’s a Mountain in My Lobby!
On the Streets with Reverend Billy and the Church of Life After Shopping
That’s the big question that the coal finance monkeys at Chase keep asking themselves now that their love affair with mountaintop removal (MTR) has drawn the attention of Rev. Billy and the Church of Life After Shopping.
May 6 Day of Action Against Chase’s Mountaintop Removal Investments
Coalition of Environmental and Community Groups Call on Chast to Stop Funding MTR
May 6 Day of Action Against Chase’s Mountaintop Removal Investments
Join Rainforest Action Network and allies all over Appalachia and the country in stopping Chase’s investments in mountaintop removal.
