mountaintop removal

Housing and Mountaintop Removal

By Erik Loomis

In General

On February 4, 2025

I sure found this story unexpected: Decades ago, a cheap form of extraction called mountaintop removal coal mining blew up summits and shoved the detritus — sugar maples, salamanders, song birds — down hill. While federal law required these moonscapes to be leveled and replanted,...

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From Ludlow to Upper Big Branch

By Erik Loomis

On April 23, 2014

I have a piece up at Bill Moyers' site connecting the exploitation that led to the Ludlow Massacre of 1914 with coal companies exploitation of labor and degradation of nature.

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Selenium

By Erik Loomis

On November 16, 2013

This is not an acceptable decision from the EPA during a Democratic administration: Today, the Environmental Protection Agency allowed the Kentucky Department of Environmental Protection to change how toxic selenium.

Green Walk for Jobs and Justice

By Erik Loomis

In General

On May 7, 2012

We don't discuss specific activist campaigns much here and I need to do a better job of it. I'm particularly interested in smaller movements that are doing amazing work to create change. We can talk about Occupy (and I have from time to time) but...

FluxAmbassador I consider myself something of a populist!
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FluxAmbassador Every so often I'll pick up a paper copy of the Highway Capacity Manual our section has and think about whoever it was that actually typed all those words I'll never read as I flip ahead to the table...
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