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Climate Reckoning: My Own Private Coal Story

December 15, 2020September 29, 2014 by Jeff Biggers

The takeaway: Strip-mining more than stripped the land; it stripped the traces of any human contact.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Energy Tags building resilient communities, climate change, climate change activism, coal mining, coal mining environmental damage Leave a comment

Breaking the Grip of the Fossil Fuel Economy: If It Can Happen in Appalachia, It Can Happen Anywhere

December 15, 2020July 18, 2014 by Laura Flanders

The people who agreed to spend their days digging coal from the underside of mountains produced enough power to industrialize the nation: They’re owed something back.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Energy Tags Coal, coal mining, energy transition Leave a comment

Are You Ready for a Coal Town Turnaround?

December 15, 2020June 11, 2014 by Rocky Kistner

What makes Sustainable Williamson potentially groundbreaking is that it involves allies who bring very different interests and occupations to the table.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Environment Tags building resilient communities, coal mining, EPA carbon pollution rules, Renewable Energy Leave a comment

Mountaintop removal provides Appalachian coal to Europe

December 15, 2020October 17, 2013 by James Marriott

Ever since Europeans arrived on this continent they have been digging and mining, shipping the fruits of these soils back across the Atlantic.

Categories Energy Tags American coal exports, coal mining, Fossil Fuels, mountaintop removal Leave a comment

In Australia, an Uphill Battle To Rein in the Power of Coal

December 15, 2020September 20, 2013 by Samiha Shafy

Coal mining has powered the Australian economy for decades.

Categories Environment Tags climate change, coal mining, greenhouse gas emissions Leave a comment

Take a Frightening Tour Down America’s ‘Climate Change Highway’

December 15, 2020September 19, 2013 by Tara Lohan

I drove the “Climate Change Highway”…what happens along this road in the next decade may well determine our future.

Categories Energy Tags climate change, coal mining, Fracking Leave a comment
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