Please come to a important meeting on Wed., Feb. 20 to speak out against MTR and the Coalfields Expressway.
Governor Bob McDonnell and VDOT are pursuing hard a 50 mile mountaintop removal coal mine masquerading as a highway in Southwest Virginia. This road is all about mining coal not about transportation. The highway contractor is [...]
Update: More than 85,000 comments were submitted nationally in opposition to the project. Click here to read our press release. Thank you and stayed tuned!
Want to find a way to skirt necessary environmental safeguards so you can mine more coal? Coal you don’t own?
Coal companies are trying to disguise a coal-mining operation as a [...]
On October 17 – 18, Governor McDonnell is holding his second Virginia Energy Conference. Based on his track record we expect more of the same: coal, gas, oil, nuclear, with limited commitment to renewable energy. We need to turn this around to safeguard our air and water and begin to address climate change.
Here’s [...]
If ever there is a time we must stand together to stop mountaintop removal coal mining, it is now. On May 12, the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy approved the Ison Rock Ridge permit, a 1,300-acre surface coal mine, that would forever destroy five of communities in Wise County, Virginia, and devastate the [...]
We knew it would not be easy stopping mountaintop removal coal mining, but we are building a movement to stop the destruction of our Appalachian Mountains and streams. We need your help!
On Thursday, Feb. 11, join the Sierra Club and the Wise Energy Coalition in a rally to stop mountaintop removal and support [...]
Over the past year Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards (SAMS) and Sierra Club have teamed with local residents in Wise County to oppose a new mountaintop removal coal mine on Black Mountain. The Ison Rock Ridge mine permit, being sought by A&G Coal Corporation, would obliterate approximately 1,300 acres of steep, forested, mountainous terrain near [...]
Coal Country is a powerful film from Sierra Club Productions taking us inside modern coal mining. We get to know working miners along with activists who are battling coal companies in Appalachia. We visit the homes of people most directly affected by mountaintop removal mining (MTR) and hear about health problems, dirty water in their [...]
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