What Fracking and Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining have in Common
Erie, CO meet Naoma, WV. Though seemingly different battles over different ecologically hazardous extractive processes—hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) for unconventional gas versus mountaintop removal for coal—the two battles are one in the same and direct parallels of one another. On June 2, a coalition of activist organizations led by Erie Rising and joined by the likes of … Read more
