Articles by Jeff Biggers
Jeff Biggers is the American Book Award-winning author of Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland (The Nation/Basic Books). His website is: www.jeffbiggers.com
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Big coal gone wild: The sequel
It wasn’t enough for FACES — the bogus Big Coal front created by a Washington, D.C. lobby firm — to be pilloried on the Rachel Maddow Show and the Daily Show for using fake iStock photos in their ads. Now comes Big Coal Gone Wild: The Sequel. While a broad and peaceful national movement rooted […]
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Greg Craven’s new book retools the climate debate
In his speech at the U.N. Summit on Climate Change today, President Barack Obama admonished world leaders that their nations “cannot allow the old divisions that have characterized the climate debate for so many years to block our progress.” Yet, during this week-long summit to lay the groundwork for the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen […]
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WVU Honors Massey and Murray Over Crandall Canyon Miners?
This might be the shameless story of the week: Either that, or West Virginia University president James P. Clements has a lot of explaining to do–especially to the widows and children of the deceased miners in Crandall Canyon, Utah, and to the sick children and ailing communities in the Coal River Valley of West Virginia. […]
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NY Times nails Clean Water Act crimes and (lack of) punishment
Many readers of the New York Times probably dropped their jaws in amazement at the lead story on Sunday: Seven-year-old Ryan Massey, of Prenter, West Virginia, smiled back with capped teeth, the enamel devoured by toxic tap water. His brother sported scabs and rashes, courtesy of the heavy metals–including lead, nickel–in their bath water. If […]
