Sentences with phrase «from mountaintop removal coal mining»
«As a DC resident receiving my power from Pepco, I am outraged that most of that electricity comes from burning coal, especially from coal from the mountaintop removal coal mining destroying Appalachia,» said Erica Madrid.
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DOI's Office of Surface Mining directed the National Academy of Sciences to stop work on a study of potential health effects from mountaintop removal coal mining.
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In 2011, it had bought out the mountaintop removal mining company Massey Coal from under coal baron Don Blankenship (recently convicted of conspiracy to avoid mine safety standarCoal from under coal baron Don Blankenship (recently convicted of conspiracy to avoid mine safety standarcoal baron Don Blankenship (recently convicted of conspiracy to avoid mine safety standards).
The Deepwater Horizon; mountaintop - removal coal mining; global warming and glacial melting from the burning of fossil fuels.
As long as mountaintop removal mining continues coal can not be clean, even if the pollution from burning it can be minimized
However, the stark reality is that global emissions have accelerated (Fig. 1) and new efforts are underway to massively expand fossil fuel extraction [7]--[9] by drilling to increasing ocean depths and into the Arctic, squeezing oil from tar sands and tar shale, hydro - fracking to expand extraction of natural gas, developing exploitation of methane hydrates, and mining of coal via mountaintop removal and mechanized long - wall mining.
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.
The participants voiced a wide range of concerns, from the impact of hydroelectric dams on American Indian populations to the E.P.A.'s review of mountaintop removal coal mining permits to the longevity of a green jobs recovery.
This victory came as many residents from across the Appalachian region were in Washington, D.C., this week to demand that Congress and the Environmental Protection Agency stop mountaintop removal coal mining.
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.
«Deep Down»: A community battle over proposed mountaintop removal coal mining (November 23, 2010)(The film «Deep Down» may be streamed from Netflix.)
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.
Those are words from Harlan County, Kentucky, resident and amazing activist Teri Blanton at a «Stop Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining» rally today in Washington, DC.
«Congress passed the Clean Water Act to protect Americans from the very circumstances that mountaintop removal coal mining is now imposing on Appalachian families.
Mountaintop removal coal mining prevents the region from obtaining economic justice — the EPA can help by protecting water quality and encouraging sustainable clean energy solutions that take us beyond these destructive mining practices.»
«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.
Coal mining has progressively changed from predominantly underground mining to surface mining [143], including mountaintop removal with valley fill, which is now widespread in the Appalachian ecoregion in the United States.
After nearly two hours of arguments from the coal industry and its political friends, Bo and Maria spoke from the heart, revealing what it's really like to live near mountaintop removal mining.
Makayla Urias, 8, from Pike County, Kentucky holds contaminated water samples taken from her home which is surrounded by mountaintop removal coal mining.
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.
Since a mountaintop - removal operation moved in in 2000, Maria Gunnoe has tried to protect her home and community from the effects of mountaintop removal coal mining.
Different from traditional underground coal mining, mountaintop removal is highly mechanized and thus employs fewer workers.
The rulemaking was an effort to better protect public waterways from mountaintop removal and other destructive coal mining practices.
Our movement can never question if Keystone XL is worse than Flanagan South (an Enbridge pipeline running from Illinois to Oklahoma), or whether tar sands, fracking, or mountaintop - removal coal mining is worse.
The resulting large - format book, Energy: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth explores the impacts of the global energy economy: from oil spills and mountaintop - removal coal mining to oversized wind farms and desert - destroying solar power plants.
Our movement can never question if Keystone XL is worse than Flanagan South (an Enbridge pipeline running from Illinois to Oklahoma), or whether tar sands, fracking or mountaintop removal coal mining is worse.
From birth defects surrounding mountaintop removal coal mines, to the subsequent attempts to pass these same issues off on in - breeding, we've had some prime examples of community betrayal at the hands of the coal industry here in the States.
Listen to a snippet of his speech above.DeChristopher is absolutely right: we're going to need to see more direct action from young, engaged people if we hope to see serious progress in arenas like halting mountaintop removal mining, shuttering dirty old coal plants, and making significant inroads towards climate mitigation in general.
We think you'll love this new children's cartoon about mountaintop removal coal mining from Gorilla in the Greenhouse.