#MoreSpillsBill: Corporations will be imposing a greater risk of chemical spills on us in order to save the money they'd otherwise have to spend ensuring our safety.
More spills: We’re NOT a Willing Sacrifice
Cancer Creek: Cold Hard Facts
Corporations are LITERALLY BANKING on the hope that you won't notice what they're doing to poison our kids and grandkids---they're banking on the "low voter turnout" mentality.
Report: EPA pipeline reviews “Inadequate and Ineffective”
"EPA, in every case, identified important information and analyses that should have been included in the Draft Environmental Impact Statements (DEISs) but was not, assigning ratings of 'insufficient information' for each of the eighteen project reviews...."
How the wealthy buy WV elections and write WV law
Donald Trump, at a primary debate in August of 2015, explained: "I was a businessman. I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And you know what? When I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them and they're there for me." Later, he said it more bluntly, "When I call, they kiss my ass, okay?"
Hope and helplessness
Chris Hedges: "Hope is weak, unorganized and absurd. Hope, which is always nonviolent, exposes in its powerlessness, the lies, fraud and coercion employed by the state. Hope knows that an injustice visited on our neighbor is an injustice visited on all of us..."
CTA: Tell Jim Justice “Hands off our property rights!”
Tell Jim Justice: "No forced pooling, no matter how you brand it: Hands off our property rights!" Phone Jim Justice’s office: 304-558-2000 OR Write Jim Justice a message (click here) OR BOTH!
Outreach, and what it’s not
If we want to unite the country and make positive change, here's the simple message that will change everything...
Why the WV DEP is failing WVians
They're having a tea party and serving us cups of air, telling us we're not really thirsty. They seem to be more concerned with saying the right things than with doing the right things...
3 Things NOT to say about the 2016 election – Plus the reason I’ll never be elected
If liberals didn't like it when people claimed "Obama is not my president!"--but you're saying it about Trump, you're being a hypocrite. On the other hand, Trump supporters, if you said it about Obama and now you're infuriated that people are saying it about Trump, you're being a hypocrite, too. Let's all stop being hypocrites, please.
Will WV Dems crash and burn like national Dems did?
A populist uprising at the polls is exactly what happens when the government ceases to be "for the people." These results now remind everyone that if we don't have a government FOR the people, we'll have a government BY the people, at least---whether for good or ill.
The Appalachian Oracle 