A Requirement for Respect

Self-explanatory.

by Rebecca Gayle Howell.

Originally delivered on behalf of Kentuckians For The Commonwealth, at 21c Museum. Louisville, Kentucky. December 06, 2009.

The people of Eastern Kentucky – West Virginia, East Tennessee – have been treated as the ‘Other America’ for more than a century. From Lil Abner to Shelby Lee Adams—from Charles Kuralt to Diane Sawyer— [...]

Coal Giant Massey Called Out for 12000 Pollution Violations

(Photo: U.S. National Archives, 1974)

All that coal comes with baggage and outrage and few enough people seem to even know about it, let alone get their backs up about it.

Environmental groups to sue Massey Energy for ignoring thousands of violations of the Clean Water Act and surface mining laws.

A coalition of environmental groups has [...]