"Next Steps for the Anti-Mountaintop Removal Movement" is a series of interviews with affected residents and activists in the central Appalachian coalfields region, including West Virginia leader Bo Webb, Kentuckian Teri Blanton, Kathy Selvage in Virginia, Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson in Tennessee,...

"Next Steps for the Anti-Mountaintop Removal Movement" is a series of interviews with affected residents and activists in the central Appalachian coalfields region, including West Virginia leader Bo Webb, Kentuckian Teri Blanton, Kathy Selvage in Virginia, Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson in Tennessee, and Appalachian...

When the shoutin' is over in the never-ending saga of Arizona's Canadian-immigrant Attorney General Tom Horne's thinly veiled witch hunt of Tucson's Ethnic Studies/Mexican American Studies, the most important voice will seemingly have been left out of the discussion: The very students in the Ethnic Studies/Mexican...

Looking for the great American road trip in an age of climate change?

Rolling into the Yale Environmental Film Festival last week in their 2006 Ford Escape Hybrid -- a road veteran of 48 states and lovingly renamed the "Rachel Car" after famed environmentalist Rachel Carson --...

"Next Steps for the Anti-Mountaintop Removal Movement" is a series of interviews with affected residents and activists in the central Appalachian coalfields region, including West Virginia leader Bo Webb, Kentuckian Teri Blanton, Kathy Selvage in Virginia, Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson in Tennessee, and...

"Next Steps for the Anti-Mountaintop Removal Movement" will be a series of interviews with affected residents and activists in the central Appalachian coalfields region, including West Virginia leader Bo Webb, Kentuckian Teri Blanton, Kathy Selvage in Virginia, Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson in Tennessee, and Appalachian...

On the eve of Arizona's most famous native son's celebrated birthday, Phoenix-area Sheriff Joe Arpaio unveiled his latest media stunt, the war-time invoking Operation Desert Sky -- a 30-plane air posse of armed volunteers to track Mexican smugglers. Only days before, Arpaio rolled his department's private...

"Next Steps for the Anti-Mountaintop Removal Movement" will be a series of interviews with affected residents and activists in the central Appalachian coalfields region, including West Virginia leader Bo Webb, Kentuckian Teri Blanton, Kathy Selvage in Virginia, Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson in Tennessee, and Appalachian Voices legislative aide JW Randolph in...

What really happened in Wyoming last week?

Perhaps we should ask billionaire coal hauler Warren Buffett, the "Oracle of Omaha."

Energy and climate analysts and Big Green organizations are still staggering around for an answer to the Obama administration's blockbuster news...

When thousands of Bangladeshi take to the streets again on March 28th as part of a decade-long battle to halt a devastating British-owned open-pit coal mine, the world will not only be watching whether Bangladesh's government will honor a coal ban agreement from 2006 or resort to

Only days after the Arizona state legislature voted for punishing budget cuts in education, the now infamous witch hunt and audit of Tucson Unified School District's Mexican American/Ethnic Studies program is readying to commence. Price tag: An estimated $170,000.

In a blistering letter...

Call it Arizona's Shock Doctrine.

And the children are the shock troops.

They dressed as firefighters, doctors, lawyers, police officers, pilots and scientists. They carried signs, including a 30-foot banner of colorful hand prints. They marched along the Arizona Capitol grounds, singing "This Little Light of Mine."

On...

A 42-year-old coal miner in southern Illinois recently asked me a question I couldn't answer: Who took Van Jones' job in the Obama administration as the green jobs administrator?

Anxious to find a job in another field in a depressed town with no industry (but cross-country truck...

As the second explosion at a nuclear power plant in Japan blew the roof off a containment area today, and authorities attempted to downplay the radiation fallout unleashed by the devastating earthquake, I've been thinking about the "Big Shake" in my southern Illinois coalfields and Big Coal's policy...

Do the reckless anti-union machinations by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker make him the Charlie Sheen of politics?

If only celebrated actor Martin Sheen received the same media exposure as his troubled son Charlie. Never has his long-time work for union rights been more needed in the public and...

When President Obama conferred the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal on several American heroes yesterday, including Kentucky poet Wendell Berry, he forgot one last award: The Medal of Freedom to Tim DeChristopher.

Instead of being convicted today on two felony accounts for...

It's one thing to dedicate legislative time over selecting an official state firearm -- only two months since the horrific Tucson shooting.

It's another matter to blacklist and ban (and allegedly rough up) Latino activists from participating in Capitol hearings on immigration bills.

But on...

A gun-toting, anti-immigrant activist convicted of murdering a 9-year-old girl received the death penalty in Arizona this afternoon. Not that anyone around the state capitol had time to take notice.

While huge protests against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's anti-union budget continue to galvanize progressive ranks across the country,...

UPDATE: 4pm EST: The 14 Kentucky Rising anti-mountaintop removal protesters declared a triumphant end to their historic sit-in, emerging today in front of a cheering throng of over 1,200 supporters on the steps of the Frankfort capitol.

"We came because the land, its forests, and its streams...

As the sun rose on the Frankfort capitol in Kentucky on this beautiful winter morning, 14 anti-mountaintop removal activists were already in meetings on the third day of their historic protest. After marking the second night on the floors and chairs in their Kentucky Rising occupation of Gov....