Environment

July 3, 2009 - A Vietnam veteran and former businessman who lives in West Virginia's Coal River Valley, Bo Webb is one of the lead organizers of the national movement to stop mountaintop removal, a particularly destructive form of strip-mining.

July 1, 2009 - By Melissa M. Forbis, Guest Contributor "There is no more apt theme for this conference at this fear-driven moment in political history."

June 30, 2009 - After initially saying it would not release the information due to "security concerns," the Environmental Protection Agency relented Monday and disclosed the locations of the nation's 44 "high hazard" coal ash dump sites.

June 29, 2009 - The U.S. House of Representatives approved a landmark climate bill on Friday, passing the American Clean Energy and Security Act by a narrow 219-212 margin. The measure, which would set caps on greenhouse gas emissions and boost renewable energy and efficiency, now goes to the Senate. If the House vote is any indication, the legislation can be expected to face significant opposition from Senators hailing from the coal-dependent South.

June 29, 2009 - By Bill Bishop, Daily Yonder What does coal cost mining communities?

June 26, 2009 - A new report from an engineering firm hired by the Tennessee Valley Authority identified factors behind last year's disaster that unleashed more than a billion of gallons of toxic ash from a massive storage pond at the federal company's Kingston plant in eastern Tennessee.

June 26, 2009 - Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour won't let calls from housing advocates and lawmakers deter his plans to divert $570 million of federal hurricane recovery funds from a housing program to the expansion of the Port of Gulfport.