Mountain Mondays are a weekly celebration of our mountain home in Appalachia. Find it every week at 9 am on iLoveMountains.org or the Mountain-loving blog nearest you (cross posted widely). You'll find music, movies, images, and stories. Please recommend it up!

Join the fun with your thoughts on home, mountains, energy, coal, or whatever suits you.

Mountaintop removal is a radical form of coal mining in which entire mountains are literally blown up -- and it is happening here in America on a scale that is almost unimaginable.

Mountaintop removal is devastating hundreds of square miles of Appalachia; polluting the headwaters of rivers that provide drinking water to millions of Americans; and destroying a distinctly American culture that has endured for generations.

But mountaintop removal can be stopped -- with the help of people like you.

On this site, you can explore the National Memorial for the Mountains, watch a video about mountaintop removal featuring Woody Harrelson, share your prayers for the mountains and more.

Please take a moment to learn more about mountaintop removal mining -- and then join us by taking action to stop it.

September 24th - Blair Mountain, WV
Blair Mountain is the site of a 1921 battle in the West Virginia Mine Wars, the historic push of unionized coal miners from the north to organize the workers of the southern coalfields. Involving 13,000 union miners and 2,000 anti-union defenders, the battle was the largest armed conflict in America since the Civil War! It remains literally a battleground: a prime location for finding historic artifacts left from both sides of the conflict. It's also, however, a battleground between opponents of mountaintop removal coal mining and the coal companies themselves.

The "stream buffer zone" rule is under attack - Write to Congress and the federal Office of Surface Mining to defend it.

New web tools available - The iLoveMountains.org Blogger's Challenge makes it easy to spread the word with customizable "Spread the Word" widgets, embeddable videos, coal tracking widgets, and RSS feeds.

A ban on mountaintop removal coal - North Carolina lawmakers introduce first bill in the nation to ban the use of mountaintop removal coal.

New lawsuit against coal plant subsidies - Read the press release here.

Co-sponsors Galore - Thousands have visited Washington, emailed, or called their representative asking them to co-sponsor the Clean Water Protection Act. Your hard work has paid off: we now have a record 153 co-sponsors! Click here to ask your representative to become one, or thank them if they are.

Festival Tour - The Mountaintop Removal video from iLoveMountains.org is hitting the road with the 6th Annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival!