CLEAN Southern Coordinator

Last night, the Army Corps of Engineers held three of six hearings on the possible suspension of the Nationwide Permit 21 (NWP21) in Pikeville, KY, Charleston, WV and Knoxville, TN. NWP21 is a blanket permit used for valley fills - in other words, coal companies do not need to apply for an individual permit when they want to blow up a mountain and bury a stream. This also means that there is no public comment period for affected residents to speak out on said permits. As part of the Obama Admini… Continue

In a press release today, the Obama Administration revealed their intent to further regulate mountaintop removal mining. At noon, a conference call was held between the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), Army Corps of Engineers, EPA, Department of Interior (DOI) and Office of Surface Mining (OSM) to discuss coordination between the offices and tighter regulations on the devastating practice.

Instead o… Continue

It was a busy Memorial Day weekend for activists in Appalachia. At daybreak on May 23, eight brave souls from Mountain Justice and Climate Ground Zero climbed to the mountaintop removal site on Kayford Mountain in West Virginia and locked themselves to an enormous truck. A huge banner reading “NEVER AGAIN” in stark white letters on black cloth was unfurled over the truck's side. Kayford, once a richly-fores… Continue

The Power Past Coal campaign, which brought together 300 actions across the country in the first 100 days of the Obama Administration, capped off the project with a powerful two days in DC! Power Past Coal, a project of multiple coalfield and clean-energy groups, including CLEAN, brought six delegates from all stages of the coal cycle to DC to tell their powerful stories.

Lorelei Scarbro, from West Virginia, talked about how living below a mountaintop… Continue

After Tuesday's House Subcommittee Hearings on "The Future of Coal and Climate Legislation," aka the Carbon Capture and Sequestration Love Fest, it's become even more apparent that our elected officials in Washington need to hear from the people, not the lobbyists, about what we want for America's energy future. We want real investment in renewable energy. We want green jobs and energy efficiency to get America back to work and help families save money. We don't want to waste our limited tax dol… Continue