It’s March 3rd!
You know what that means? That means that all the fines I accrued from participating in a direct action last June are due to the West Virginia magistrate… and then I’m free! I feel like this is a good time to reflect on that action, as it was a pretty amazing one.
Very early [...]

This morning in Pettus, West Virginia, three activists entered Marfork Coal Company’s office to deliver a citizen’s arrest warrant to Christopher Blanchard, the company’s president and Don Blankenship, the CEO of Massey Energy. Marfork Coal Company is a subsidiary of Massey Energy – the coal company responsible for blowing up dozens of mountaintops throughout [...]

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 [...]

Last night the University of Charleston hosted a debate about mountaintop coal removal between Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the CEO of Massey Energy, Don Blankenship. Massey Energy the major player in mountaintop removal – including at Coal River Mountain – where Climate Ground Zero treesitters just halted the blasting.
RAN folks were there, you can [...]

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Check it out, last night Stephen Colbert took on Mountain Top Removal on the Colbert Report – one of the most watched shows on TV. He hits on some really important issues that RAN has been working on for years [...]