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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Earthquake wake-up call in Chicago
Road damage following an earthquake. Photo: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center CollectionI wonder if anyone on President Obama’s new Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage felt a slight […]
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Coal Miners Join Historic Rallies to End Mountaintop Removal Today
When oh when will it be over? When will I lay these burdens down? — Dwight Yoakam, Miner’s Prayer As we huddle in our homes on this wintry day, appreciating […]
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Bring back Van Jones
I miss Van Jones. A lot of us miss President Obama’s former green jobs visionary. That includes coal miners and residents on Coal River Mountain. If President Obama’s brilliant green […]
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Stephen Colbert on mountaintop-removal mining
Monday night on The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert hosted scientist Margaret Palmer in a brilliant takedown of the Obama administration's recent decision to greenlight more mountaintop-removal mining permits.
