
Thursday, May 10th at 11:31
"Central Appalachian Women's Tribunal on Climate Justice is live! Women are sharing experiences and facts of living near mountaintop removal."
www.ustream.tv
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Wednesday, May 9th at 14:12
Keeping the pressure on Dominion by protesting their dirty 15-year plan which includes NO large scale renewable energy plans. Dominion needs to step into the 21st century.
VA Sierra Club Chesapeake Climate Action Network Virginia Interfaith Power & Light Virginia Rising: Stop Mountain Top Coal Removal Now The Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards Keep Virginia Beautiful
wtvr.com
RICHMOND, Va. (WTVR) – Some Dominion Virginia Power customers claim the company’s proposal for a clean energy future is really...

Wednesday, May 9th at 9:30
Great to see all the folks out speaking against Dominion's "stuck in the past" plan. Dominion needs to understand Virginians demand clean energy now to save our mountains.
Sierra Club NOVA Hub Virginia Alliance for a Cleaner Environment Chesapeake Climate Action Network Chesapeake Bay Group Sierra Club EcoWatch The Owl Report Virginia Interfaith Power & Light The Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards Appalachia Rising
www.huffingtonpost.com
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Dominion Virginia Power's long-range energy plans were criticized Tuesday for relying too heavily on fossil fuels at the expense of renewables such as wind and solar and energy efficiency. Activists, grandparents, physicians and solar power producers were among the ...

Tuesday, May 8th at 9:30
This just in from Tim Mullins: For my friends in Appalachia and surrounding areas of the Coal Camps; Exeter, Andover, Derby, Inman, Stonega, and Dunbar, The Health Wagon will be at Payless on Friday from 10AM until 3PM.
http://www.facebook.com/TheHealthWagon

Monday, May 7th at 16:38
Hundreds Protest Coal Exporting at Rally with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.- http://bit.ly/JrWRPC

Monday, May 7th at 10:36
Appalmad Communications Director Dan Radmacher gets in a debate over a Virginia law granting mineral rights holders more control of mining voids.
blogs.roanoke.com
Roanoke, University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, New River Valley, Blacksburg, News, updates

Saturday, May 5th at 10:55
CHARLOTTE, NC—This morning, activists from Greenpeace, RAMPS (Radical Action for Mountain People’s Survival), Katuah Earth First!, and Keepers of the Mountains Foundation blocked a coal train en route to the Marshall Steam Station, a Duke Energy coal-fired power plant, and branded the cars with the iconic Apple logo.
Four activists, including leaders from the anti-mountaintop removal movement, locked themselves to the rail tracks preventing the train from passing. Other activists branded the train with Apple’s logo to show that Apple’s growing iCloud will be powered by more coal as its Maiden, NC, data center expands.
Working Class Heroes Make Earth First, its your planet EcoWatch Ecological Internet Quit Coal The Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards Virginia Rising: Stop Mountain Top Coal Removal Now The Owl Report Sierra Club Activist Network
rampscampaign.org
Radical Action for Mountain Peoples' Survival. A direct action campaign to end strip mining, based in southern West Virginia.

Thursday, May 3rd at 17:04
Bank of America is the biggest funder of coal, from mining to power plants, in the U.S. NEXT WEEK, people will converge on Bank of America’s doorstep to hold the bank accountable and take action. Join us on May 9 in Charlotte, NC to protest at Bank of America’s annual shareholder meeting.
Occupy Mountains Working Class Heroes The Owl Report This Is What Democracy Looks Like Sierra Club Activist Network Sit-In for the Mountains Occupy Kentucky Appalachia Rising The Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards Deep Green Political Forest
understory.ran.org
BoA is wrecking the planet for profit, wrecking the economy for fat cat executive bonuses, and foreclosing on millions of American Dreams. And it’s the biggest funder of coal, from mining to power plants, in the U.S.

Tuesday, May 1st at 11:43
Which U.S. Banks Are Risking Your Health by Financing Coal? -
http://ecowatch.org/2012/which-u-s-banks-are-risking-your-health-by-financing-coal/

Tuesday, May 1st at 10:06
Forty-Nine Coal Plants Acknowledge Groundwater Contamination -
http://ecowatch.org/2012/forty-nine-coal-plants-acknowledge-groundwater-contamination/
Sunday, April 29th at 0:09
I just wanted to write to show appreciation for what you guys are trying to accomplish, my grandmother Judy Needham is a member or your organaziation. I am a UMWA coal miner working in the deep mines in Alabama which produces high grade metalurgical coal, I was born in raised in SWVA, namely in Appalachia. I am totally against mountaintop removal mining, it is a cheap scabby practice, that totally destroys the enviroment, just for some low grade steam coal, the landscape will never be the same, and I understand to battle you go thru, the main battle you encounter is lack of education. This quick dollar that might support a few families now for maybe 2 or 3 years per mountain ridge mined or less, will in a short time be gone, then what have they no coal, no jobs, and a eye sore for their future generations to inherit. Its so basic to me, but then again I don't live there anymore, and I guess I don't have blinders on. When Westmoreland shut down my father moved to Alabama and got a job there in a Union mine to keep his pension going, and to me I would rather move away and find work and preserve the mountains and get to come back and see them stand, than to be selfish as to take what took millions of years to make, so I could live were I was born and raised for a few more years, cause the whole purpose of living in that area is the MOUNTAINS!!!

Friday, April 27th at 11:55
Virginia continues to be a top coal producer, but new rules and renewables challenge the industry’s future. Virginia’s coal companies and their national counterparts are under intense pressure. Coal has fallen into disfavor amid fears that it contributes to carbon pollution and global warming, prompting new environmental regulations.
Sierra Club NOVA Hub Interfaith Power & Light (MD.DC.NoVA) The Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards Virginia Conservation Network End Mountaintop Removal Now Virginia Alliance for a Cleaner Environment
www.virginiabusiness.com
Virginia Business - VA business news.

Wednesday, April 25th at 12:45
A dangerous shift by Norfolk City Council. Keep citizen pressure on elected officials to oppose this filthy, job killing coal plant. If built, the Cypress Creek Power Station (i.e. the 1,500-megawatt, $6 billion coal-fired plant) would be the largest in Virginia. Citizens need to stand up and speak out against old fashioned, outdated energy solutions.
Occupy Norfolk The Owl Report Polluters 4 McDonnell Clean Coal = DIRTY LIE! Chesapeake Climate Action Network Better Choices for Virginia Keep Virginia Beautiful The Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards Virginia Organizing Virginia Alliance for a Cleaner Environment
hamptonroads.com
NORFOLK The City Council majority went from opposing the Surry County coal-fired power plant to possible opposition in a meeting in which tensions ran high.

Tuesday, April 24th at 19:49
Please urge your senators to reject any amendments that gut federal coal ash protections. The transportation bill is meant to ensure safe roads, safe highways and safe communities. Polluting it with amendments that will poison our communities is unfair to millions of Americans living near these coal ash sites.
EQAT (Earth Quaker Action Team) Virginia Rising: Stop Mountain Top Coal Removal Now The Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards EcoWatch
secure.earthjustice.org
Our elected officials have voted to allow power plants to keep dumping toxic waste into unlined and unmonitored landfills that can poison our waters. Urge your senators to reject any amendments that gut federal coal ash protections.
Wednesday, April 11th at 11:13
Hello all, be sure to check out our website for information about upcoming internship positions! It should be up SOON!

Saturday, March 24th at 12:50
Join us as we continue our efforts to restore the Red Spruce ecosystem in the West Virginia Highlands. This tree planting event will take place on the Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge on 4/21 and 4/22. Meet at the refuge headquarters / visitor center at 10:00AM on both days. Come dressed for the weather, wear sturdy shoes or boots, and bring water. Lunch will be provided. For more information email marquette_crockett@fws.gov

Tuesday, March 20th at 15:35
An Update from the Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards

Tuesday, March 20th at 14:52
This Saturday - MARCH 24, 12:00-3:00pm in Richmond, VA: MARCH to end Dominion's Power MADNESS
It's time for a full court press against Dominion's dirty power madness! The clock's running out for our shot at stopping climate change. And Dominion Virginia Power is doing everything it can to keep Virginia out of the game. On March 24th, join us for a rally and march around Dominion's headquarters in Richmond. We'll tell the company's executives loud and clear that customers want them to stop blocking our shot at developing renewable energy in Virginia and we're willing to fight for it!
Sierra Club NOVA Hub Virginia Organizing Sierra Club Activist Network 350.org Keep Virginia Beautiful The Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards Occupy Richmond George Mason University Office of Sustainability Bill McKibben End Mountaintop Removal Now
MARCH 24, 12:00-3:00pm in Richmond, VA: MARCH to end Dominion's Power MADNESS
It's time for a full court press against Dominion's dirty power madness! The clock's running out for our shot at stopping climate change. And Dominion Virginia Power is doing everything it can to keep Virginia out of the game. On March 24th, join us for a rally and march around Dominion's headquarters in Richmond. We'll tell the company's executives loud and clear that customers want them to stop blocking our shot at developing renewable energy in Virginia and we're willing to fight for it!

Friday, March 9th at 20:22
An op ed. by Rev. Gradye Parsons , the highest elected official in the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. This Op Ed about saving God's mountains was published in the second biggest newspaper in Tennessee.
Where are VA's religous leaders on the desecration of mountains for cheap, dirty coal??? Why the silence from The Church?
Sierra Club NOVA Hub Working Class Heroes The Owl Report This Is What Democracy Looks Like Greater Washington Interfaith Power & Light Occupy The Environment Occupy Kentucky Occupy Mountains The Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards The Appalachian Mountains
www.tennessean.com
Rev. Gradye Parsons is the highest elected official in the Presbyterian Church U.S.A.: the Stated Clerk. This Op Ed about saving God's mountains was published in the second biggest newspaper in Tennessee. Thanks PC(USA)!

Monday, February 27th at 10:59
ACTION: Help Ban High-Elevation Surface Mining in Tennessee
Appalachian Voices, Appalachia Rising, The Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards, Virginia Rising: Stop Mountain Top Coal Removal Now, The Last Mountain, End Mountaintop Removal Now, Occupy Mountains

Sunday, February 19th at 11:51
Bad news for Big, Dirty Coal = Good news for our Mountains! :)
Keep Virginia Beautiful United Mountain Defense Working Class Heroes The Owl Report Chesapeake Climate Action Network
Rising Tide North America Occupy Kentucky EcoWatch Ecological Internet The Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards
www.bloomberg.com
Coal demand in the U.S. is collapsing as power companies switch away from the fossil fuel to take advantage of the cheapest natural gas in 10 years.

Tuesday, February 14th at 17:11
Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Protest Draws More than 1,200 in Kentucky
http://bit.ly/yNGKOE
ilovemountains.org, End Mountaintop Removal Now, The Last Mountain, Virginia Rising: Stop Mountain Top Coal Removal Now, Occupy Mountains, Appalachian Mountain Advocates, Appalachia Rising, Appalachian Voices, The Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards
Sunday, February 12th at 17:34
Western Kentucky Minerals wants to build a strip mine next to one of our Girl Scout camps in central KY. We have 26 days to convince members of the planning commission this is a bad idea, and could really use help spreading the word about this petition we started: http://www.change.org/petitions/protect-girl-scout-camp-pennyroyal
Please sign and share with everyone you know!! Thanks!!!

Saturday, February 11th at 12:00
Let's end Mountain Top Coal Removal Now.
Please like & share if you agree this is the wrong approach to energy.
Thanks for sharing Working Class Heroes !
The Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards Coal Country Tours Keeper of the Mountains Foundation Appalachia Rising Tim DeChristopher Occupy Mountains EcoWatch Occupy the EPA End Mountaintop Removal Now
www.youtube.com
From http://www.PatchWorkFilms.com Maria's Backyard. An outing with Maria Gunnoe in Bob White, West Virginia, provides a snapshot of the Mountaintop Removal ...

Friday, February 10th at 14:36
ACTION: Save Blair Mountain from Mountaintop Removal Mining
http://bit.ly/wXRZIg
ilovemountains.org, Battle of Blair Mountain, Virginia Rising: Stop Mountain Top Coal Removal Now, End Mountaintop Removal Now, The Last Mountain, Occupy Mountains, The Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards, The Last Mountain Action Center
Saturday, January 28th at 23:57
http://www.change.org/petitions/support-the-tennessee-scenic-vistas-protection-act

Thursday, January 26th at 19:27
An Update from the Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards
Monday, January 23rd at 21:17
Thanks for your inspiring & challenging spirits and presentations at Festival Center in DC. We all look forward to learning more. Gratitude and respect for your work on behalf of so many.

Thursday, January 12th at 19:33
This is a road to ruin.
The goal is to destroy mountains, remove coal, build a 4 lane highway in a remote rural area in order to move MTR coal faster so that it can be burned in unnecessary coal plants. While emitting mercury.
Just say no to the Coalfields Expressway.
The Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards Keep The Ban on Uranium Mining in VA Sierra Club NOVA Hub Virginia Clean Cities Virginia Alliance for a Cleaner Environment Virginia Organizing Project Keep Virginia Beautiful Virginia Energy Sense ilovemountains.org
www.coalfieldsexpressway.com
Route | Environmental | Economic | Safety | Press | Resource | Contact

Wednesday, January 11th at 17:17
Gaining speed in our mountains. From the land of Foxfire. Edited by Virginia native, Laurie Brunson Altieri
itsnotmymountainanymore.com
“It’s Not My Mountain Anymore” is a dose of pure reality, capturing the rhythm of the mountains, my family and our traditions with resonant sensitivity.

Saturday, January 7th at 13:20
A tribute to the life and work of community activist and outspoken mountain mama, Judy Bonds, who passed away a year ago this week. Bless you Judy.
Kathy Mattea "My Coal Journey" Tribute Page Working Class Heroes The Owl Report EcoWatch Occupy Mountains Appalachia Rising The Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards Sierra Club NOVA Hub Greater Washington Interfaith Power & Light Appalachian Mountain Advocates
thehillville.com
By Jason Howard I’ll never forget the first time I laid eyes on her—not in some holler deep in West Virginia, her native state, but in Manhattan, of all places. It was May 2007, and I was th...

Monday, December 26th at 13:37
Check out the beautiful new look of our website!
www.samsva.org
At our insistent urging, EPA officials visited Appalachia Va on Tuesday (10/25) to see our home and hear our stories. We grow stronger with every demand!… Read the rest

Saturday, December 24th at 17:46
Appalachia Rising The Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards -- This man needs to be soundly defeated.
www.nytimes.com
Representative Denny Rehberg of Montana has been an aggressive advocate for the coal and minerals mining industry, a big employer in Montana.

Wednesday, December 21st at 17:47
Just wanted to share this op ed piece published today in the Roanoke Times. It is by Rev. Greg Griffey. "Mountaintop removal undoes sacred space in a region where churches like Big Rock Creek Baptist, Buckeye Hollow Pentecostal Holiness and Crabtree United Methodist are named, not after saints or even biblical places, but after the landscape of the Appalachian Mountains themselves. When trees, creeks, ridges and "hollers" disappear, so do the stories of the churches named by the land. In a region where life, family and faith are intimately connected to the land, mountaintop removal erases storied identities that have defined my people for years."

Monday, November 21st at 10:59
Apparently he didn't hear us when we went to his Dirty Energy Conference! We need to join together to get this man out of office ASAP!
www.indiainfoline.com
The Governor was accompanied by Virginia’s Secretary of Commerce & Trade James S. Cheng and State Treasurer Ms Manju S. Ganeriwala.

Monday, November 21st at 22:51
Yes, Kids Love Mountains, too!
Ana, a young Mountain Lover, created this website to help stop mountaintop removal. We wanted to share this with you because it'is a fantastic website and demonstrates the engagement of our youth.
Go kids! We love you too!
Sierra Club NOVA Hub Sierra Club Activist Network The Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards ilovemountains.org End Mountaintop Removal Now Quit Coal EcoWatch VA Sierra Club Allegheny Group of the Sierra Club Keep Virginia Beautiful
kidslovemountains.org
Just another WordPress.com site

Sunday, November 20th at 13:20
An AWESOME ACTION this week where citizens from across Appalachia came out in solidarity to speak out & support OUR mountains!
Mountain Top Coal Removal is the ultimate crime against nature.
EPA do your JOB!!!
Save Ison Rock. Share the solidarity
Occupy Together Occupy Wall St. OccupyDC K St Occupy DC Occupy Washington DC Occupy Kentucky Occupy the EPA The Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards Occupy Richmond Echoes of the Occupation
sierraclub.typepad.com
Hundreds of Virginians and citizens from across the region gathered on November 16 at EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C., to raise their voices against a proposed mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mine that would destroy Ison Rock Ridge in Wise County,...

Saturday, November 19th at 12:41
An AWESOME event this week where citizens from across Appalachia came out in solidarity to speak out & support OUR mountains!
Mountain Top Coal Removal is the ultimate crime against nature.
EPA do your JOB!!!
Save Ison Rock. Share the solidarity
The Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards Sierra Club NOVA Hub Chesapeake Climate Action Network Occupy Mountains Occupy the EPA This Is What Democracy Looks Like Appalachia Rising Occupy DC The Owl Report EcoWatch
sierraclub.typepad.com
Hundreds of Virginians and citizens from across the region gathered on November 16 at EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C., to raise their voices against a proposed mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mine that would destroy Ison Rock Ridge in Wise County,...

Saturday, November 19th at 11:02
Joanne (ME) telling about My Family cemeteries on Ison Rock Ridge

Saturday, November 19th at 10:36
Washington DC Virginia rising rally

Saturday, November 19th at 10:22
Washington DC Virginia rising rally

Saturday, November 19th at 10:20
Washington DC Virginia rising rally

Saturday, November 19th at 10:18
Washington DC Virginia rising rally