SAVE THE MOUNTAINS! Democrats are starting to issue statements condemning the administration’s new rule allowing coal mining companies to blast the tops off mountains and deposit them in streams, but if you’re looking for citizen action on the subject, I am reliably informed that ilovemountains.org, a site produced by Appalachian Voices and former Howard Dean-campaign blogger Mathew Gross, is your go-to site for the fight against mountaintop removal.

–Garance Franke-Ruta

Garance Franke-Ruta is a former senior editor at the Prospect. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She was a 2006 recipient of a fellowship at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University.