Tag: Coal
I guess every day is more or less the same in coal industry. What does such a day include? First, they kill a worker. Second, they bilk the American taxpayers, making huge profits. Specifically, they
On this date 92 years ago, the Matewan Massacre took place in the small town of Matewan, West Virginia. In January 1920, the United Mine Workers of America had a new president: John L. Lewis. Lewis, w
A couple of weeks ago, I slammed United Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts for attacking the Environmental Protection Agency. I have a piece up at Alternet exploring this issue in greater detail. An
On April 20, 1914, members of the Colorado National Guard, along with a strikbreaking militia employed by the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, a corporation owned by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., opened
Building on my post from the other day about what the decline of coal is going to do to the already horrible economy of southern Appalachia, Brad Plumer weighs in on the matter. Like myself, he notes
It seems so. Essentially, the easy to reach coal seams are disappearing, creating the necessity for extremely destructive methods like mountaintop removal in order to reach what is left. With increasi

The coal industry is so incredibly loathsome: In response to a recent study connecting mountaintop removal coal mining to birth defects, coal industry lawyers noted: The study failed to account for co
As I expressed last week when thinking about the Huffington Post boycott and its broader implications for the blogosphere, I noted that we are long past the time when the blogosphere was the relative
- Brown-Brown Alliance
- LGM Film Club, Part 341: Johnny Cash as John Brown
- Images from American History, Part 22
- Just repeatedly asking the same questions on page A1
- Hard Out There for the Union Busting Scumbags
- LGM Podcast: The Hunt for the Peggy C
- Protect the Tongass
- College Board Names Ron DeSantis Its Arbiter of Acceptable Content
- Tom Brady and work as vocation
- DeSantis’s hired goons complete takeover of once legitimate university