Cross-posted from It’s Getting Hot in Here
Written by Dea Goblirsch and Kim Huynh. Photos by Ben Droz.
“President Obama, join me in my kitchen at 4 p.m. any day of the week and learn first-hand what you are allowing to happen in Appalachia and its mountain communities,” said Bo Webb, a ninth-generation resident of Naoma W.Va. [...]

Let’s start from the basics: Do you know what mountaintop removal coal mining is? Here are resources in case you don’t: previous RYSE blog posts (here & here). Also, it has received some pretty good coverage in the New York Times lately, including this video.
Now, have you heard of Appalachia Rising? It is a weekend [...]

I went to college on the coast of North Carolina – a medium sized school called UNC Wilmington. During my first semester there, I realized that my environmental-minded thinking was definitely in the minority. There was negligible activism, no environmental club, and the dorms barely even recycled. Not really knowing how to change things, I [...]

It’s only Tuesday and it has already been quite a busy week for the notorious Massey Energy and the anti-mountaintop removal community.
Monday morning, two activists blockaded the road leading to Massey Energy’s Regional Headquarters in Boone County, West Virginia. EmmaKate Martin, 18, suspended herself on a platform between three interlocking poles 30 feet above the [...]

In a span of time lasting no more than forty seconds, a minute of reality I barely recall, the shrill metallic screeching of chainsaws and the haunting sound of splitting forests filled the lobby of Cargill’s executive lake house with the cacophonous sounds of its rainforest-clearing supply chain. Last week, the Twin Cities chapter of [...]