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Environmental Defense Fund Billionaire Board Member Invested Millions in Massey Energy
20 Apr 10
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There’s an old mining ballad has been on my mind a lot lately.  One of the lines goes “Which side are you on? which side are you on? Oh workers can you stand it? Oh tell me how you can?  Will you be a lousy scab? Or will you be a man?“  Classic narrative of the have’s vs.
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Coalition of Environmental and Community Groups Call on Chast to Stop Funding MTR
16 Apr 10
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Chase: Stop Funding MTR

May 6 Day of Action Against Chase’s Mountaintop Removal Investments

Join Rainforest Action Network and allies all over Appalachia and the country in stopping Chase’s investments in mountaintop removal.

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Peabody's Boyce Explains to Congress that Clean Coal is the Solution to Global Warming
15 Apr 10
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Being an anti-coal activist leaves you with mixed emotions.  Frustration, anger, triumph, joy, sadness and, of course, amazement at the ability of the coal industry to get away with spinning their offensive bull#*@t into mainstream consciousness.

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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'