Articles by Jeff Biggers
Jeff Biggers is the American Book Award-winning author of Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland (The Nation/Basic Books). His website is: www.jeffbiggers.com
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Coalfield residents respond to Obama’s announcement on mountaintop removal
In the wake of last month’s approval of 42 of 48 mountaintop removal and mining permits as “environmentally responsible,” the EPA, Department of Interior and Council on Environmental Quality today […]
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Breaking: Obama says mountain crimes can be regulated
“Mountaintop removal is a crime–and ought to be treated as a crime.” — Al Gore “Mountaintop removal is a crime against local people, nature, our children, and our planet.” — […]
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West Va. Supreme Court affirms toxic coal silo as wonderful playground
While coal may now be the official rock of West Virginia, it might soon become the official school vegetable, too. Call it organic clean coal. On the heels of being […]
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Should Wilderness Society strip Rahall of award?
“Something like a shadow has fallen between the past and the present, an abyss wide as war that cannot be bridged by any tangible connection, so that memory is undermined […]
