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WASHINGTON, June 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- In the wake of a new independent report on the Upper Big Branch mine disaster in West Virginia that killed 29 coal miners on April 5, 2010, two public interest organizations have asked Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden to investigate Massey Energy Company and initiate an action to revoke its corporate charter.

Emmylou Harris, Naomi Judd and Kathy Mattea Raise Awareness for March on Blair Mountain and the June 3 Theatrical Release of The Last Mountain Film WASHINGTON, May 25, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Emmylou Harris, Naomi Judd, and Kathy Mattea are lending their voices to a growing chorus of citizens across the country determined to stop "mountaintop removal" (MTR), a devastating strip mining practice which destroys entire landscapes to uncover coal deposits in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Maryland.

An environmental group found polluted river water near a huge coal ash spill in Tennessee.

By Scott Harper, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va. Jun. 22--ST. PAUL By any standard, it is the biggest environmental controversy in Virginia today -- a $1.8 billion power plant, proposed by the state's largest electric company, in the heart of coal country here in mountainous southwest Virginia.