Jeff Biggers has interviews with Wendell Berry, Stanley Sturgill, Teri Blanton, and many others from last weekend's sit-in in the Kentucky Governor’s offices to protest mountaintop removal coal mining in Kentucky.
Author Wendell Berry and 13 other environmental activists emerged from the state Capitol on Monday, Feb. 14 to roars of approval and applause, ending their four-day occupation of Gov. Steve Beshear's outer office.
The protesters joined several hundred people on the Capitol steps for the "I Love Mountains" rally, an annual event held to promote "stream saver" legislation that effectively would end mountaintop removal coal mining in Eastern Kentucky. Previous bills died for lack of action; similarly, this year's bills are languishing in committee.
