After Freedom Industries so kindly donated 10,000 gallons of Crude MCHM and PPH into the Elk River last month, tainting the water supply for more than 300,000 West Virginians, Governor Earl Ray Tomblin made it perfectly clear that the coal… Read More ›
Environment
In Most States, Schools Have Snow Days. In West Virginia, Schools Have Chemical Leak Days
Sunday will mark the one month anniversary of the day that the first reports began trickling in that a small chemical company called Freedom Industries had let between 2,000 and 5,000 gallons of a relatively unknown chemical used in coal… Read More ›
The Coal Ash Cup Runneth Over…Into Appalachia’s Water Supply
This past Sunday, as the nation was sitting down to watch the Super Bowl and all of its attendant pomp and circumstance, a massive environmental disaster was taking place near Eden, NC, a small town that sits on the banks… Read More ›
A Tale of Two Senators: Rockefeller, Manchin & The West Virginia Chemical Spill
When it came out last week that an environmental scientist from Marshall University had found abnormal levels of Formaldehyde in a local water sample, I pretty much lost it. I suppose if I had received this news in a vacuum… Read More ›
West Virginia Chemical Spill Week 4: Problems Remain But So Do We
Anyone who has been following these diaries might remember that I had pledged to eat 1 of the evil laxative Haribo Sugarless Gummi Bears for every $5 that was donated to help the West Virginia Clean Water Hub, The Keeper… Read More ›
Anatomy of a Crisis: Joe Manchin and The West Virginia Chemical Spill
It was over 177 years ago that Daniel Webster, the longstanding Senator from Massachusetts and perhaps the greatest orator our Nation’s legislative branch has ever known, appeared in the small town of Madison, Indiana to give a speech concerning the… Read More ›
West Virginia Clean Water Drive Photo Diary
Hey, I know it’s really easy to forget about the water crisis in West Virginia right now, what with GMail crashing and Steve Stockman going AWOL and the Biebs getting arrested for being a drunk driving douchebag, but I implore… Read More ›
Will Write (And Do Pretty Much Any Damn Thing) For Donations To West Virginia Clean Water Groups
Over the past couple of days, I have embarked on a couple of fairly unorthodox campaigns to try and get people to donate money so that the hundreds of thousands of West Virginians who have been left with nothing to… Read More ›
Bowel-Destroying Gummi Bears For Clean West Virginia Water
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! I GIVE YOU THE 1ST INAUGURAL MOUNTAINEER BAD BEARD-OFF FOR CLEAN WATER SUGARLESS GUMMI BEAR EAT-OFF! FOR EVERY 5 DOLLARS YOU DONATE TO HELP PROVIDE CLEAN DRINKING AND BATHING WATER FOR THE PEOPLE OF WEST VIRGINIA,… Read More ›
The 1st Inaugural Mountaineer Bad Beard-Off for Clean Water
As of right now, there are only two things in this world that I am absolutely sure of: The first is that hundreds of thousands of West Virginians are currently suffering the effects of a massive chemical spill that has… Read More ›