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From Rolling Stone by Jeff Goodell, Excerpt: Then there are the largely forgotten environmental nightmares like mountaintop-removal coal mining in Appalachia, which continues despite its devastating impacts on local communities. “When leaders in environmental organizations chose to fight climate change in a top-down fashion, they left the mountaintop-removal fight,” says Maria Gunnoe, director of the …

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The following articles are related to protests and blockades associated with U.S. Senator Joe Manchin: Protestors Arrested at Coal Waste Plant Affiliated With Manchin’s Family (newsweek.com) Hundreds of climate change activists to protest at W.Va. power plant, Manchin’s voting record, on Saturday | News | bdtonline.com West Virginians Lead Blockade of Coal Plant That Made …

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BOONE COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) – Oil sits on top of the areas where the water pools on the Pond Fork River. Maria Gunnoe is the director of a non-profit, Mother Jones Community Foundation, with a long list of awards for community activism in West Virginia. She has been capturing the oil leak the only way …

Unclear who is investigating oil leak and vandalism; community activist speaks out Read More »

The in-depth story by Jeff Goodell “Manchin’s Coal Corruption Is So Much Worse Than You Knew” is a shocking deep-dive into the senator’s financial and political ties to the dying, destructive industry.

Listen to the audio documentary featuring members of the Mother Jones Community Foundation here.

As The Both of Me makes clear, the self-destruction of Appalachia has never ended. by Jeff Biggers Entering the abandoned ruins of a deconsecrated church and converted United Mine Workers hall with the slow approach of a horror film, the chilling opening scene in the new short documentary, The Both of Me, premiering at the Telluride Mountainfilm festival this weekend, …

We Still Live Here: Coal Activists Fight On in Heart-Wrenching New Film Read More »

Source:  Mother Jones Community FoundationNEWS RELEASEFor immediate releaseContact: Maria Gunnoe: info@motherjoneswv.org 304-989-9581  “From the Ashes,” a new documentary on the coal industry directed by Michael Bonfiglio, distributed by National Geographic and funded by former New York City Mayor and one-time presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg, is drawing bitter opposition from environmentalists, mountaintop removal opponents, Appalachian community activists and coal …

National Recognized Activists “Infuriated” at Bloomberg-Backed Coal Documentary Read More »