Category Archives: Coal Country the Book

A poignant plea to save region’s natural legacy By Linda Elisabeth Beattie Special to The Courier-Journal Like all Sierra Club publications, Coal Country: Rising Up Against Mountaintop Removal Mining, edited by Shirley Stewart Burns, Mari-Lynn Evans and Silas House, is … Continue reading →

Published: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican newspaper and radio station have called the film “Avatar” simplistic, and criticized it for flirting with modern doctrines that promote the worship of nature as a substitute for religion. … Continue reading →

Shirley Stewart Burns, Mari-Lynn Evans and Silas House have done an exceptional job editing many essays by the leading opponents of mountaintop removal mining. This is the perfect companion book to the great film by Mari-Lynn Evans that I have … Continue reading →

Nick Clooney, in the foreword to Coal Country: Rising Up Against Mountaintop Removal Mining (Sierra Club Books, $25.95), a companion book to Sierra Club’s new feature-length documentary, remarks that his Irish immigrant ancestors moved to Kentucky’s Appalachian Mountain region in … Continue reading →