Sentences with phrase «coal poisoning their water»

In Harrodsburg, Kentucky, residents like Pamla Wood are worried about coal poisoning their water.

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After a series of incidents where coal mines poisoned local water supplies, the rule was written to force mining companies not to begin new projects without first developing a plan to restore affected streams after the coal is hauled out of the earth.

Coal mining produces green house gases, it ruins entire ecosystems through the poisoning of water tables and the destruction of forests and sometimes entire mountaintops, it pollutes with heavy metals, the list goes on and on.

We can do so just fine with renewable energy sources, and in the process we will avoid poisoning the third world with air and water pollution and killing large numbers of coal miners.

The report, «Closing the Floodgates: How the Coal Industry is Poisoning Our Water and How We Can Stop It,» was released by the Environmental Integrity Project, The Sierra Club, Clean Water Action, Earthjustice and Waterkeeper Alliance.

By bombing our mountains and poisoning our water, coal declared war on Appalachia.

The study also concluded that the coal ash caused contamination in surface waters and that accumulation of toxic contaminants in river sediment could poison fish.

On behalf of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth — I'm a member of — and for all those thousands of people, folks in the mountains who have lost loved ones due to the carcinogenic heavy metals blown out of the earth and poisoning our waters by this hellish, murderous extraction of coal called mountaintop removal — to represent them, I stand proudly in defiance of Governor Steven Beshear, McConnell, King Coal and all the King's lap puppies in the statehouses of Kentucky and West Virginia and those here in Washington, DC, who put corporate gains over people's licoal called mountaintop removal — to represent them, I stand proudly in defiance of Governor Steven Beshear, McConnell, King Coal and all the King's lap puppies in the statehouses of Kentucky and West Virginia and those here in Washington, DC, who put corporate gains over people's liCoal and all the King's lap puppies in the statehouses of Kentucky and West Virginia and those here in Washington, DC, who put corporate gains over people's lives.

In 2008, the devastating coal ash spill in Kingston, TN, destroyed homes, poisoned rivers and contaminated coves and residential drinking water.

In states like Missouri and Illinois, where Walmart has no solar panels or other renewable energy projects, its stores draw power from a fleet of aging coal plants, which are poisoning the air and water.

This coal plant, known as the Orion - Dhaka project, would burn coal just a few miles outside Dhaka, poisoning the air and water of 17 million people.

In fact, he says, the oil sands, combined with Alberta's growing mania for extracting natural gas from coal seams by injecting toxic chemicals into the ground — thereby poisoning some of the dwindling supply of drinking water — threaten to create a parched, deforested, polluted wasteland.