Tag Archives: Wendell Berry

“I’m about to pull an Egypt,” anti-MTR protester tells Mother Jones

Led by Kentucky author and poet Wendell Berry, a group of environmentalists opposed to mountain top removal have staged a sit-in in Frankfort that has gained a bit of national attention. From Mother Jones: The fight over MTR has been heating up at the national level since last month, when the Environmental Protection Agency vetoed a [...]

UPDATED: Anti-MTR Kentuckians stage Frankfort sit-in, force meeting with Gov. Beshear despite possibility of arrest

What will Gov. Steve Beshear do? Sick the KSP on Wendell Berry? UPDATE: Although he’s not pulling a Mubarak, Gov. Steve Beshear has dropped his oh-so-busy schedule to meet with Kentucky Rising protesters who want him to end mountaintop removal mining in Kentucky. “We can surface mine in a responsible way,” the governor told the [...]

EPA hears coal ash comments as MTR protest gets buried

Yesterday, representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency listened to 11 hours worth of testimonies delivered by concerned citizens, environmental activists and pro-coal industry-types to aid the EPA in its adoption of new regulations for the toxic byproducts generated by the burning of coal (i.e. coal ash, fly ash, slurry, et al.). That this hearing took [...]