WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
New Orleans – I was talking to Steve Charter on Wade’s World about the fight with the Signal Peak coal operations around his ranch in the Bull Mountains not far from Billings, Montana. That company has been a terror to the land and water and connected to a host of issues that should be a …
Pearl River – Sometimes what goes around, comes around, and then should be stopped cold and not allowed to move another inch, and I’m talking about the continued environmental and community degradation allowed to persist in Montana and perpetuated by coal and energy companies. Almost fifty years ago, I was sitting in an old, drafty …
New Orleans There’s no getting around it: coal is a problem. Everyone seems to know the climate and coal are oil and water; a toxic and fatal mix. Yet for all of the scientific evidence and national promises from one country after another, coal is still burning bright. Part of the current slippage …