Monday afternoon at about 3PM, a huge explosion ripped through an underground coal mine in Montcoal, West Virginia, killing at least 25 miners. This is the highest mining accident death toll since 1984, when a fire killed 27 workers in a mine in Orangeville, Utah. Four miners are still missing, but search efforts got postponed [...]

Yesterday, a group of 40 concerned community members members rallied outside the Region 3 EPA building on Arch St in Philadelphia, where they demanded that the Agency stop approving new permits for mountaintop removal (MTR) mining. Philly’s Region 3 office reviews MTR permits in Virginia and West Virginia.
The crowd chanted “Ending MTR, who has the [...]

For the past four days, three amazing activists have been hanging out in trees near Massey Energy’s Bee Tree Strip Mine. With the treesitters so close to the mine site, blasting is illegal, therefore stopped. The activists – David Aaron Smith, 23, Amber Nitchman, 19 and Eric Blevins, 28, say they will stay in the [...]