Less than a rosy picture of Massey Energy by Richmond VA's alternative weekly.
Massey's Dark Side
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Blue-Green Alliance Rallies to Oust BofA CEO Ken Lewis
Bank of America's CEO Under Scrutiny from Many Quarters including the No Coal Movement
Another Charlotte-based corporation is feeling the heat today as labor and environmental activists rallied outside Bank of America's annual shareholder meeting just a week after hundreds marched against Duke Energy's new coal plant in Cliffside NC resulting in 43 arrests.
Now that Obama Made Me a Co-Owner, How about No More Coal?
Bank of America Shareholders' Meeting on April 29th to be a Economic and Environmental Reckoning
Anti-Mountaintop Remova Coal Mining Activist Wins Goldman Award
Maria "Mother" Gunnoe Wins the Environmental Nobel for Fighting Big Coal
The Goldman Prize is known as the “Nobel Prize” for environmentalists — it’s awarded to one grassroots environmental leader from each continent.
In 2003, Judy Bonds of Coal River Mountain Watch received the Goldman Prize for her outstanding work on ending mountaintop removal.
Activists hang “EPA stop MTR” banner on Massey coal mine, arrested
Appalachia Mobilizing for Long Fight against Big Coal
Another arrest action today at Coal River Mountain. Friends Madeline, Charles, Jordan, Antrim and others were part of a banner hang.
British Police Pre-Emptively Arrest 114 Anti-Coal Activists
Waves of Direct Action Bringing Waves of Police Repression
While the 24 hour cable news cycle has been obsessing about “Obama vs. the Pirates,” this weekend the British police pre-emptively arrested 114 anti-coal activists suspected of planning actions at an EON coal plant.
Recently, U.K. activistas have been stepping up direct action against coal and climate change (this has been very visible in Australia and, now, the U.S. as well) and the authorities appear to be stepping up their actions against protestors.
Coal’s Funeral Procession
EPA Ruling Another Step in Long Slow March
EPA Puts Halt to Hundreds of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Permits
Good News for the Coalfields as Bush's Parting Gift to King Coal gets Moratorium
After a horrible decision back in February by the 4th Circuit, the Environmental Protection Agency, after being lobbied by activists, put a moratorium on hundreds of mountaintop removal permits.
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