Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Tag: coal mining

Scientists find Appalachian mountaintop removal coal mining put endangered species at...

Since 1985, streams and rivers have repeatedly suffered “acute” levels of toxic chemicals in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, despite U.S. efforts to paint a rosy environmental image abroad.

US Forest Service broke law when opening 4,900 acres of Colorado...

“The Forest Service failed to provide a logically coherent explanation for its decision to eliminate the Pilot Knob Alternative.”

Trump administration ignores environmental impacts of mining 30 million tons of...

The organizations filed a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) challenge to the recent approval of the expanded mine, which would extract millions of tons of coal and exacerbate climate change impacts including air pollution and other threats.

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Spain blocks US war operations in Iran and calls conflict “profoundly illegal”

Madrid closes airspace and denies military base access, widening tensions with Washington as legal experts cite violations of the UN charter

Trump, complicity in genocide, started a terrible war; he must be removed NOW.

When will this march into Trump authoritarianism be stopped by some powerful, fearless leader?

Nuke power equals Trump profits

Amidst his escalating attacks on renewable energy and atomic safety, the Trump family’s investments in nuclear fusion live under a bad cloud that threatens us all. 

Trump’s Iran war drives more than $100 billion to fossil fuel giants as global...

Analysis finds oil and gas price spikes linked to the conflict have shifted massive wealth from households and businesses to major energy companies while lawmakers propose taxing windfall profits.

How Democrats helped clear Trump’s path back to power

The Democratic Party has chosen again and again to abandon working people and cling to corporate power, militarism, and a feckless, out-of-touch leadership class, Norman Solomon of RootsAction says. And we’re all paying the price.