Press / Media

Media Resources

• Photos of mountaintop removal mining in TN
• More Photos
• Facts about MTR in TN

Media Coverage

2012

• Reader Pushes Ramsey on Scenic Vistas Protection Act - Elizabethton Star – March 29, 2012
• State fines coal company for black water release – Knoxville News Sentinel – Knoxnews.com – March 29, 2012
• Friends of TN Mountains Must Step Up – The Tennessean – March 28, 2012
• MTSU student vows to continue fight to save state’s mountains - The Daily News Journal – March 27, 2012
• Opposition to Scenic Vistas is Indefensible – The Tennesseean – March 22, 2012
• This is What an Appalachian Hero Looks Like – Appalachian Voices – March 19, 2012
• Cook:  A slap in the face of the creator - Chattanooga Times Free Press – March 19, 2012
• Barbara Kingsolver Interview – March 9, 2012 -WUOT
• Mountaintop removal looms – Chattanooga Times Free Press – March 7, 2012
• Mountaintop removal violates Christian faith – The Tennessean – March 7, 2012
• Dawn Coppock:  Senate Must Vote to Save Our Mountains – Knoxville News Sentinel – March 3, 2012
• Haslam key to restoring muscle to mining ban – Editorial Knoxville News Sentinel – March 2, 2012
• Feeling a Sacred Trust - Novelist and activist Silas House talks with novelist and activist Barbara Kingsolver about the need to end mountaintop-removal mining—and preserve the mountains they love – Chapter 16 – by Silas House
• LEAF Statement Re Amended Bill
• Mountaintop removal foes try new strategy.  Businesses told of chamber’s stance.  - The Tennessean – Feb. 29, 2012
• Pass bill to protect Tennessee’s mountains – The Tennessean – Feb. 29, 2012
• Time to protect state’s peaks from harmful mining – Knoxville News Sentinel editorial – February 26, 2012
• Tennessee Conservation Voters’ Television Spot
• Standard Banner – Faulk – February 16, 2012
• Media Report 2012 – Jan. 17 through Jan. 30
• Media Report 2012 – Jan. 1 through Jan. 16

2010

• Knoxville News Sentinel, “Senator talks surface mining with officials”
• Chattanooga Times Free Press, “Candidates slam state regulators”
• Knoxville News Sentinel, “GOP candidates target environmental regulators”

2008

• From the Knoxville News-Sentinel: “National Coal clashes with environmentalists over bill”
• In the (Maryville) Daily Times: “Finney targets mountaintop removal mining”
• LEAF in the Knoxville News-Sentinel–Opinion piece by Leslie Snow
• LEAF makes the cover of the Knoxville Metro Pulse
• Good press for LEAF–an article by Betty Bean from Shopper-News NOW