Sentences with phrase «for mountaintop removal coal mining»

On June 29, Kucinich, Rep. Louise Slaughter, and several others introduced the Appalachian Communities Health Emergency Act (H.R. 5959), a bill that would «place a moratorium on permitting for mountaintop removal coal mining until health studies are conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services.»

Not exact matches

For example, PNC no longer lends to coal producers with anything more than a minimal exposure to mountaintop removal mining.

Allen Johnson of Christians for the Mountains was arrested last Monday alongside NASA climatologist James Hansen and 113 others for an act of civil disobedience protesting mountaintop removal coal mining.

Mountaintop - removal coal mining causes many streams and rivers in Appalachia to run consistently saltier for up to 80 percent of the year, a new study by researchers at the University of Wyoming and Duke University finds.

A portion of the Hobet 21 coal mine in West Virginia shows the effects of mountaintop - removal mining, which, new research shows, causes many streams and rivers in Appalachia to run consistently saltier for up to 80 percent of the year.

And Citigroup Inc. announced in October that it would draw down loans for companies that engage in mountaintop - removal mining — a process in which workers detonate rocks and soil to access coal trapped below, often leaving toxic runoff in bodies of water nearby.

Klein follows the «dark» money behind the propaganda of climate - change denial, the effort to dismantle the federal government to curtail corporate regulation, and the justification for the feverish pursuit of the riskiest forms of carbon - emission - producing energy from tar sands extraction to deep - water drilling, fracking, and mountaintop - removal coal mining.

But coal is not «cheap» for the Appalachian communities destroyed by mountaintop removal (see appvoices.org), nor for the miners killed or sickened because worker safety would be too costly for mine owners, nor for the areas made permanently dead from the mining practices, nor for the children poisoned by the toxic fumes of even the cleanest - burning coal plants, not to mention the entire planet, every species, every community, every neighborhood being damaged and degraded by the global warming coal burning causes.

It is appalling that while the federal government is pushing offshore oil drilling and mountaintop - removal coal mining, proposing to strip - mine shale oil and tar sands and to dramatically expand the production of high - level nuclear waste, they have declared a two - year moratorium on new solar electric power plants on public lands — which have some of the best solar energy resources in the world — for «environmental reasons».

Over the past several months, I completely two relevant fact - finding trips: one to West Virginia to get a firsthand look at surface mining for coal, aka mountaintop removal, and the other to Pennsylvania to get a sense of the impacts of natural gas drilling.

In June, 2009, the Obama administration created a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) among federal agencies responsible for protecting Appalachian communities from the extreme damage of mountaintop removal coal mining.

Go after mountaintop removal, coal mining, coal - fired power plants, the coal companies, and the elected officials who take their campaign contributions and carry water for them politically.

On the other side of the country, mountaintop removal coal mining opponents received good news when the Federal Highway Administration announced that the Virginia Department of Transportation will be required to conduct a full environmental review for a controversial 26 - mile section of the Coalfields Expressway that would run through southwest Virginia.

On June 8, supporters of the March on Blair Mountain against mountaintop removal coal mining rallied outside the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington, DC, praising EPA for recent actions while skewering, by name, high - level pro-industry elected officials from Appalachia.

A group of coalfield citizens traveled to Washington, D.C., during the March on Blair Mountain to renew their call for the end of mountaintop removal mining, a devastating coal mining practice that is destroying their communities, contaminating their drinking water supplies, and threatening the health and lives of many Appalachians.

Judy Bonds (d. 2011) was awarded the Prize in 2003 for her work to end mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia.

Coal companies and their lobbyists are pushing for more than 100 new mountaintop removal mining permits, seeking permission to blow more mountains up and destroy more mountain streams in even more communities.

Gunnoe, a 2009 Goldman Prize recipient, has been actively speaking out for communities affected by mountaintop removal coal mining, releasing studies about the impact of this destructive practice on local families» health.

As hundreds of conservationists, coal miners and activists start a five day journey through the mountains of West Virginia to call for an end to the devastating practice of mountaintop removal coal mining, a similar battle to ensure a just and sustainable future is being waged at the new round of UN climate talks being held in Bonn, Germany.

Appalachia Rising, a mass mobilization calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal coal mining, converged thousands of coalfield residents and supporters in Washington D.C. for a conference called «Voices of the Mountains» and a mass march and action.

«The Court's action today is critical to protecting the people of Appalachia and our water supplies from what would have been one of the most harmful mountaintop removal coal mining sites in the history of our region,» said Bill Price, an organizer for the Sierra Club based in West Virginia.

«We applaud the court for recognizing EPA's broad authority to protect water quality from extreme practices like mountaintop removal coal mining,» said Ben Luckett, attorney with Appalachian Mountain Advocates.

The rally then moved over to the front of the White House for chanting, and then on to deliver petition signatures calling for an end to mountaintop removal coal mining.

Yet here was the practically unheard - of spectacle of Patriot's CEO, Ben Hatfield, acknowledging that mountaintop removal affected both people and ecology: «Patriot Coal recognizes that our mining operations impact the communities in which we operate in significant ways, and we are committed to maximizing the benefits of this agreement for our stakeholders, including our employees and neighbors,» Hatfield said in court.

Maria Gunnoe was awarded the Goldman Prize in 2009 for leading a campaign against the environmentally devastating practice of mountaintop removal coal mining (MTR).

In December 2008, the Bush Administration approved a final rule that made it easier for coal companies to dump rock and other mine waste from mountaintop removal mining operations into nearby streams and valleys.

A study in 2009 showed that nearly 1.2 million acres to date had been surface mined for coal, and more than 500 mountains destroyed by mountaintop removal coal mining.

EPA Objects to Permits For Three More Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Operations

Avid TreeHugger readers will note that some of the groups aren't exactly the most climate - friendly groups out there, at least in industry association or what activities they fund (BoA's funding of mountaintop removal coal mining, for example).

In fact, I have openly and explicitly called for nonviolent civil disobedience against mountaintop removal coal mining in my home state of West Virginia.

Bank of America stops financing for companies engaged in mountaintop removal coal mining and companies pursuing coal export infrastructure

Also, the nearly - incalculable costs of destroying ecosystems for energy — witness the effects of mountaintop removal coal mining, for example.

Gunnoe won the Goldman Prize in 2009 for her fight against environmentally - devastating mountaintop removal coal mining and valley fill operations.

April 9, 2012: U.S. EPA overstepped its authority when it vetoed a Clean Water Act permit issued for a sprawling mountaintop - removal coal mining project in West Virginia, a federal judge ruled today.