In West Virginia’s coal country, a wellspring of citizen opposition to a mountaintop removal mine has caused the state to put the brakes on the entire operation. As FSRN’s Melinda Tuhus reports, residents say...
For the first time in 30 years, policies that drive federal leasing of coal on public lands are receiving a major review. The nation’s largest coal reserves in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin are the...
The Oakland City Council voted unanimously on Monday to ban the transport and storage of coal shipments. Phil Tagami, developer of the old Oakland Army base, had proposed what would have been the largest...
The federal government is reviewing a program that allows for the leasing of federal lands to coal companies. The Obama administration has announced a freeze on new applications for coal mining leases for the...
A report released earlier this month details the public health and environmental impacts from coal ash, where a spill in North Carolina in February sent 27 million gallons of toxic wastewater connected to a...
Fourteen activists with Hands Off Appalachia made their fifth court appearance on Earth Day, April 22, in Connecticut Superior Court in Stamford. Their arrests stemmed from an action last November where some of them...
Colombia is the world’s fourth largest coal producer. Alabama-based mining company Drummond ships about 90,000 tons of coal from the nation’s Caribbean coast daily. The company has faced a slew of accusations of environmental...
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