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Climate Ground Zero Activist Sentenced to 60 Days
Three Contempt Charges for Roselle
28 Apr 10
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You’d think the criminal justice system in West Virginia would have better things to do. Something like investigating criminal safety violations by it’s outlaw coal companies.

Activist Sentenced to 60 Days; Three Contempt Charges for Roselle

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 4/28/10

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Five Arrested at Valmont Power Plant in Colorado
Boulder Activists Unfurl Banner and Erect Wind Turbines on Top of Giant Coal Pile
27 Apr 10
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UPDATE: Everyone is out of jail charged with a misdemeanor trespass.

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Things are heating up in the Rockies!

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Boulder Activists Unfurl Banner and Erect Wind Turbines on Top of Giant
Coal Pile

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Mountain-a-lujah! There’s a Mountain in My Lobby!
On the Streets with Reverend Billy and the Church of Life After Shopping
21 Apr 10
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What do you do if someone puts a whole mountain in your lobby?

That’s the big question that the coal finance monkeys at Chase keep asking themselves now that their love affair with mountaintop removal (MTR) has drawn the attention of Rev. Billy and the Church of Life After Shopping.

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Cracks in Big Coal’s Empire
Wall Street and Washington Feeling the Heat
1 Sep 10
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
-Gandhi

Don Blankenship’s empire is crumbling, rapidly.  Mountaintop removal coal mining may well be on it’s way out.  The money’s drying up.  Appalachia is rising in Washington D.C.  And we’re seeing some VERY interesting developments on Wall Street and in Washington.

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Moutaintop Removal is Dirty

Coen Brothers on 'Clean Coal'