In an article in the latest edition of The Environmental Forum, Harvard law professor Richard Lazarus slammed the ruling by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson overturning the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s veto of the Spruce No. 1 mine permit. Lazarus teaches environmental law, natural resources Law, Supreme Court advocacy and torts at Harvard. via [...]

In a new episode of Big Coal Gone Wild last week, coal lobbyists announced their intentions to rebrand mountaintop removal mining as “mountaintop development.” For besieged residents living near mountaintop removal sites in Appalachia–and in the 20-odd states that allow strip-mining–this announcement has triggered another name suggestion: Given that millions of pounds of ammonium nitrate/fuel [...]

Earthbytes: Historic Petition to Protect Tennessee’s Mountain Tops Clears First Hurdle. Woohoo! The North Cumberland Lands Unsuitable for Mining Petition (LUMP) filed by Tennessee’s Governor Phil Bredesen on October 1st now has the blessing of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) to move on through the system. In letters to officials in [...]

Many Americans still don’t know that many of us get our electricity at the expense of fellow citizens whose communities are being ripped apart by mountain top removal coal mining. That’s why ilovemountains.org has teamed up with Ashley Judd and The Alliance for Appalachia to get the message out to America’s living rooms. They’ve put [...]