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Jeff Biggers, Rebecca Traister & Hendrik Hertzberg, and Hoarders
Yet another coal miner was killed on the job this week, and journalist and author Jeff Biggers says that the situation has reached crisis level--that it's a war on miners. He also notes that abuse of the land and abuse of the people who work on it has always gone hand in hand, so as pressure for mountaintop removal and new coal mines mounts, so do safety violations--the latest being a story broken by NPR, that a methane gas monitor at the Little Big Branch mine, where 29 workers died in an explosion in April, had been deliberately shut down.
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Rich Countries to Pay Energy Giants to Build New Coal-Fired Power Plants
by John Vidal, environment editor The UN is set to channel billions of pounds of public money from rich countries to giant energy companies to build 20 heavily polluting coal-fired power plants on the basis that they will emit less carbon dioxide than ...
Environmental Justice, Science Leaders Urge Action Linking Climate and Public Health
by Shalini GuptaIn a letter sent to Congress and the Obama administration last month, leading voices in environmental justice, science and academics asked that: “1) the U.S.read more
4 1/2 Hours: Across the Stones of Fire
Frequent GRITtv guest Jeff Biggers has created the Coal Free Future Project, along with Stephanie Pistello, as a creative and artistic component to the growing climate justice movement, pushing for clean energy and human rights. As part of their project, they are presenting their multimedia theater project, "4 1/2 Hours: Across the Stones of Fire" at New York's Gene Frankel Theatre from June 4th to the 13th.
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Coal Free Future, Still Alive in Gaza, and Jim Shultz
Frequent GRITtv guest Jeff Biggers has created the Coal Free Future Project, along with Stephanie Pistello, as a creative and artistic component to the growing climate justice movement, pushing for clean energy and human rights. As part of their project, they are presenting their multimedia theater project, "4 1/2 Hours: Across the Stones of Fire" at New York's Gene Frankel Theatre from June 4th to the 13th.
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Jeff Biggers: Deadly Symptoms of a Deadly Addiction
Even though twenty-nine coal miners were recently lost in the West Virginia Upper Big Branch mine explosion and the environmental and economic devastation from the BP oil spill continues to trump the clean up efforts, environmental legislation is strangled by this “deadly addiction.”
Jeff Biggers, America’s Union Movement, and the BP Oil Spill
Even though twenty-nine coal miners were recently lost in the West Virginia Upper Big Branch mine explosion and the environmental and economic devastation from the BP oil spill continues to trump the clean up efforts, environmental legislation is strangled by this “deadly addiction.”
Author and journalist Jeff Biggers joins us via Skype from West Virginia to [...]
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The F Word: Catastrophes Every Day for Profit
"It's premature to say this is catastrophic." The words of Gulf Coast Coast Guard Commander Mary Landry about the BP oil spill Tuesday were spoken as the families of eleven rig workers were still waiting for word of their loved ones, now presumed dead.
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Jeff Biggers: In the Midst of a Coal Field War