Content on Coal:
Column: Mountaintop removal has negative community impact
April 30, 2009
Having just finished "Lost Mountain" by Erik Reece for my Literature and Ecology class, I am motivated to share my new knowledge concerning mountaintop removal, what I am newly convinced is one of the world's most dire problems.
Tech community should reach out to Prenter Hollow
February 17, 2009
Just a few hours away from Blacksburg lies the community of Prenter Hollow in Boone County, W.Va. According to resident Patty Sebock, 98 percent of the area's inhabitants no longer have gallbladders because of diseases she believes have been caused by hig
Column: Renewable energy sources are undeniably in near future
February 5, 2009
This past political season almost all of us voted for candidates who supported "Clean Coal," a blanket term for technologies meant to minimize the environmental impact of this fossil fuel, but the truth of the matter remains that clean coal is little more
October 15, 2008
West Virginia residents have recently been subjected to mountaintop removal, an extreme version of strip mining that essentially blows away the land surrounding individual homes and communities.