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 [...]

For the first time in quite a while, I actually have good news related to the mountaintop removal fight to share with you!
I am very happy to report that Governor Manchin announced on April 30th that the kids who attend Marsh Fork Elemenatary are going to get a new school. I’ve written about Marsh Fork [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

JP Morgan Chase is the biggest U.S. financier of mountaintop removal.
Remember Massey Energy, poster child of mountaintop removal? JP Mogan Chase supplies the money that funds them.
Are you on Facebook? Do you use Twitter? Have a blog? How about email? We need your help to stop the money flow that’s destroying mountains and creating some [...]