Here are some fact sheets Greenpeace has pulled together on topics to do with coal. Here are two new ones on Coal Ash, a basic fact sheet on Coaland one on the clean coal myth.
Coal is Dirty Exclusive
Quit Coal - Join the Movement
Check out Greenpeace's new Quit Coal website. This is a long term project and it starts now with you.
One of the main functions of the site is a Quit Coal Community Forum tool we've developed to enable and empower everyday people in their community to fight back against dirty coal plants.
We deserve safe and clean energy. Sign up today and join the movement to Quit Coal.
Here's a video we produced to introduce the project:
Kentucky Has Risen!
Direct Action and Mass Rally Call for End to Mountaintop Removal
“Mountaintop removal is an act of aggression. Civil disobedience is an act of love.”
-Terry Tempest Williams
A mountaintop insurrection in Kentucky is underway. And it definitely must be on Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear’s mind this week.
Coal Tattoo: Massey's Blankenship to Plead the 5th in Mining Disaster Probe
Retiring CEO Opts Not to Incriminate Self
Breaking from Ken Ward at Coal Tattoo:
Coal Ash Lobbyists Mob the White House
New report from DeSmogBlog and PolluterWatch IDs coal ash lobbyists
As the last of the EPA's show hearings on coal ash wraps up in Knoxville, TN today, PolluterWatch and DeSmogBlog released new research on the raft of meetings that lobbyists got at the White House and a Who's Who of coal ash lobbyists.
Appalachians Rising on Kayford Mountain
Mountain Justice Fall Summit Oct. 22-24
Expect lots of good stuff to be happening at Kayford this weekend.
Mountain Justice Fall Summit on Kayford Mountain!
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.
MoJo: JPMorgan Chase’s War on Nature
How the Wall Street darling underwrites environmental Armageddon and mountaintop removal coal mining
And FYI, if this inspires you and you want to take action against Chase, Fossil Fool’s Day is only two days away.
JPMorgan’s War on Nature
How the Wall Street darling underwrites environmental Armageddon.
By Andy Kroll | Tue Mar. 30, 2010 3:00 AM PDT
Growing Resistance to Coal in the West
Coal Fights Spread Westward
Most publicized on this site and in the media is the epic battle being waged by the movement against the coal companies laying waste to Appalachia’s Mountains. It’s also fought and stopped over half of the coal fired power plants proposed by the Bush-Cheney energy plan.
