Environment
November 30, 2009 -
An 81-year-old activist will begin a fast today at the West Virginia State Capitol in an effort to end mountaintop removal coal mining.
November 25, 2009 -
You know that $300 million for Louisiana in the Senate health bill that has caused right-wing pundits to call Sen. Mary Landrieu a "prostitute" and worse -- and attempt to discredit the Democrats' health reform bill?
November 25, 2009 -
A dam collapse at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston power plant in eastern Tennessee l
November 24, 2009 -
Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest In late October the company, A-Power Energy Generation Systems, announcedthat it had been chosen to supply some 240 turbines for a large windfarm planned for Texas. That would have been just another in a longseries of manufacturing-goes-to-China stories, but for reportsthat the group launching the $1.5 billion project--a joint venture of
November 23, 2009 -
Pollution from coal is not only unhealthy for the environment -- it als