Human Interest

Something's Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal

Silas House; Jason Howard

About the Program

Activists in the movement against mountaintop removal mining tell stories of the generations-long fight to prevent what they call the destruction of their land and their way of life, for the sake of the coal industry.  The authors are Kentucky natives.

About the Authors

Silas House

Silas House

Silas House is a bestselling novelist whose non-fiction has been published in Newsday, among others. He teaches at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tennessee.


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Jason Howard

Jason HowardJason Howard is the editor of We All Live Downstream. He ahs also written for Equal Justice Magazine and The Louisville Review.
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Past Airings

  • Sunday, August 16th at 11pm (ET)
  • Sunday, August 16th at 11am (ET)
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