ISSUES

Like Walking Onto Another Planet is a compilation of stories of people who are impacted by Mountaintop Removal. This is available in booklet form.

The Coal Mine Next Door by Peter Slavin is an article on the Marshfork School
in the American School Board Journal March 2006

Destruction of Cemeteries by MTR (Grist article August 3, 2006)

When Mountains Move excerpt from The National Geographic, March 2006

The Rape of Appalachia article by Michael Shnayerson (Vanity Fair, May 2006)

Radio reporter Bob Edwards does story on Kentucky MTR

Lexington-Herald review of Eric Reece's work exposing MTR.

Fly, Rod, and Reel article by Ted Williams on Coal-produced Acid Water and Trout

What Global Warming is doing to the Animals ....by top climatologist Jim Hansen
(New York Review of Books---July 13, 2006)

Whose Trespassing on Whose Property? Coal Companies Abuse Property Rights
by Brian McNeil (June 2005)

Forests are Vital in Stabilizing Climate

President Woodrow Wilson's First Inaugural in 1913 Speaks to Our Nation Today!

Energy Conservation is Patriotic and Vital for National Security

MTR threatening Tennessee. January 2006 call to action letter.

Top NASA climatologist James Hansen being silenced over global climate politics (2006)

Pentagon tells President Bush that Climate Change Will Destroy Us
from the London Observer March 22, 2006

Nuclear Power not Panacea. Renewables offer best energy future (Wasserman 07/06)

Can We Drill and Mine Ourselves into an Energy Secure Future?
by Jeff Goodell, "Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future." The New York Times, June 23, 2006

Jury Finds Logging and Mining Responsible for Severe 2001 Flooding (May, 2006)

Ominous Polar Warming a Most Serious Global Threat (London Observer March 2006)

OVEC Link on Overweight Coal Trucks that endanger lives and ruin roads.

Poverty a Legacy of Coal Communities (Christian Science Monitor Feb. 6, 2006)

Who Owns West Virginia? illuminated the power of out-of-state landholders when published by the Huntington newspapers in December 1974. Still relevant reading today.

MTR is again one of the 10 least reported news stories (Project Censored 2006)