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In a stark reminder of the national connection to the coalfields, the Obama administration officials looked on from their White House offices, as their electricity came from a coal-fired plant generated partly with coal stripmined from Appalachia.

Jeff Biggers: BREAKING: Mass Arrests in DC: We Shall No Longer Be Crucified Upon the Cross of Coal (PHOTOS) Jeff Biggers 2010

In a stark reminder of the national connection to the coalfields, the Obama administration officials looked on from their White House offices, as their electricity came from a coal-fired plant generated partly with coal stripmined from Appalachia.

Jeff Biggers: BREAKING: Mass Arrests in DC: We Shall No Longer Be Crucified Upon the Cross of Coal (PHOTOS) Jeff Biggers 2010

In a stark reminder of the national connection to the coalfields, the Obama administration officials looked on from their White House offices, as their electricity came from a coal-fired plant generated partly with coal stripmined from Appalachia.

Jeff Biggers: BREAKING: Mass Arrests in DC: We Shall No Longer Be Crucified Upon the Cross of Coal (PHOTOS) Jeff Biggers 2010

Dear readers in the 48 states that burn stripmined coal: American residents on the frontlines of the coal wars need your help and financial support NOW.

Jeff Biggers: SOS: Day 12,065 of Mountaintop Removal Disaster: Appalachia is Rising (Again) 2010

The real question is: When will other major public figures, artists, actors, writers and even politicians -- all of whom are benefitting in their urban green cities from coal-fired plants using coal stripmined from Appalachia and 23 other sacrificed states -- going to stand up with Judd, and demand a roadmap to a just transition to a clean energy future?

Jeff Biggers: Ashley Judd Needs No Defense: Besieged Kentucky Mountaineers Need More Defenders Against Big Coal 2010

Hundreds of thousands of tons of coal stripmined are consumed by New Yorkers every year at 13 power plants in 11 counties.

Jeff Biggers: Take Off Broadway, Off Coal: Love, in the Time of Blasting 2010

And here's the kicker: NetRoots Nation is generating its big gathering with coal stripmined from Appalachia and around the nation.

Jeff Biggers: Is NetRoots Nation Afraid of Big Coal? Fear and Loathing from Bob Kincaid's Appalachia 2010

And for the readers in the 48 states that burn stripmined coal, you need to pull out your wallets and support their efforts on the frontlines of the coal wars:

Jeff Biggers: SOS: Day 12,065 of Mountaintop Removal Disaster: Appalachia is Rising (Again) 2010

And here's the kicker: NetRoots Nation is generating its big gathering with coal stripmined from Appalachia and around the nation.

Jeff Biggers: Is NetRoots Nation Afraid of Big Coal? Fear and Loathing from Bob Kincaid's Appalachia 2010

How do you celebrate Earth Day, when your homeland or homeplace has been stripmined into oblivion?

Reclaiming Earth Day: Guerilla Reclamation Actions in the Coalfields 2010