Claim: Director of Coal River Mountain Watch, Julia Bonds collaborated and campaigned with the United Mine Workers Union and personalities against mine blasting and other coal mining hazards.
Evidence: Bonds was the director of Coal River Mountain Watch (CRMW). By 2003, she had led the CRMW into a partnership with the United Mine Workers Union to halt mining companies' dangerous use of overweight coal trucks and to convince the state's mining oversight agency to better protect valley communities from mine blasting. In 2009, she brought in actress Daryl Hannah and NASA scientist James Hansen to protest the proximity of a Massey coal slurry dam and storage silo in the vicinity of a West Virginia elementary school.