Mining protesters accuse police of mistreatment
By Travis Crum CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A spokesman for an environmental group said they need to raise a half-million dollars’ worth of property to bail out 20 activists arrested on misdemeanor charges during a demonstration this weekend. More than 50 activists from the group, Radical Action for Mountain People’s Survival, disrupted operations at Patriot Coal’s … Read more
20 Arrested at Historic Shutdown of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Site
Following the historic July 28 shutdown of Patriot Coal’s Hobet mine—Appalachia’s largest mountaintop removal coal mining site—by more than 50 people affiliated with R.A.M.P.S. “Mountain Mobilization” campaign, 20 people were arrested and are being held on trespass and obstruction charges. Bail is set for $25,000 each at the Western Regional Jail. Multiple arrestees, including 20-year-old … Read more
Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math Part 6 by Bill McKibben
It’s not clear, of course, that the power of the fossil-fuel industry can be broken. The U.K. analysts who wrote the Carbon Tracker report and drew attention to these numbers had a relatively modest goal – they simply wanted to remind investors that climate change poses a very real risk to the stock prices of … Read more
“Mountain Mobilization” shuts down Lincoln Co. strip mine Call for end to strip mining and a just transition for the region’s families
Charleston, W.Va.—More than 50 protesters affiliated with the R.A.M.P.S. Campaign have walked onto Patriot Coal’s Hobet mine and shut it down. Ten people locked to a rock truck, boarded it and dropped banners: ”Coal Leaves, Cancer Stays.” At least three have been arrested, with another in a tree being threatened by miners with a chain saw. … Read more
From Adam’s Rib
I would remind the millions of people across this country who, daily, second by second, enjoy and benefit from hundreds of years of scientific study, research and insight they so cavalierly, due to ideological/religious bent, dismiss the pressing issue of global warming as a “conspiracy,” the true consequence of their myopic stance. I would remind … Read more
Global Warming’s Terrifying new math – Part 5 by Bill McKibben
So: the paths we have tried to tackle global warming have so far produced only gradual, halting shifts. A rapid, transformative change would require building a movement, and movements require enemies. As John F. Kennedy put it, “The civil rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He’s helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln.” … Read more
Global Warnings terrifying new math – Part 4 by Bill McKibben
If you told Exxon or Lukoil that, in order to avoid wrecking the climate, they couldn’t pump out their reserves, the value of their companies would plummet. John Fullerton, a former managing director at JP Morgan who now runs the Capital Institute, calculates that at today’s market value, those 2,795 gigatons of carbon emissions are … Read more
Groups Join Fight to Make BLM Comply with Federal Law When Leasing Land for Oil and Gas Drilling
Four Ohio groups have joined 11 regional and national environmental organizations in a call for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to comply with federal law when leasing Forest Service land for oil and gas extraction. Buckeye Forest Council, Sierra Club Ohio Chapter, Athens Conservancy and Athens County Fracking Action Network signed the letter authored … Read more
Global Warnings terrifying new math – Part 3 by Bill McKibben
The Third Number: 2,795 Gigatons This number is the scariest of all – one that, for the first time, meshes the political and scientific dimensions of our dilemma. It was highlighted last summer by the Carbon Tracker Initiative, a team of London financial analysts and environmentalists who published a report in an effort to educate … Read more
