Youth climate activists rally in front of the Capitol in Washington, DC during the Energy Action Coalition’s Powershift ’09. |
Climate Scientist Dr. James Hansen speaks at the Capitol Coal rally in Washington, March 2009. |
Writers Wendell Berry, Terry Tempest Williams, and Bill McKibben march in the Capitol Coal rally in Washington, March 2009. |
Mountaintop-removal coal mining equipment sits on the remains of Kayford Mountain, West Virginia, in a parking lot several hundred feet below the former summit of the mountain. |
Anti-mountaintop-removal activists gather in the Coal River Valley, West Virginia, fall 2009. |
Bullet holes dot some of the trailers on Kayford Mountain on the land of the “keeper of the mountains,” Larry Gibson, where people partisan to the coal companies sometimes do drive-by shootings. |
Activists march in a “Funk the Warming” march in Washington, DC, January 2010. |
Writer and founder of 350.org Bill McKibben speaks at George Washington University. |
Al Gore gives an energy speech in Washington, summer 2008. |
Mike Tidwell, founder of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, speaks during an action to protest the granting of major concessions to fossil fuel industries in climate legislation, in a House of Representatives office building, summer 2009. |
An activist is arrested during an action to protest the granting of major concessions to fossil fuel industries in climate legislation, in a House of Representatives office building, summer 2009. |
A young West Virginia woman is arrested at the office of West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin, for peacefully refusing to leave his office until he used his powers to stop mountaintop removal operations on Coal River Mountain, October 2009. |
Anti-mountaintop-removal activist Judy Bonds speaks in front of the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, December 2009. |