Sentences with phrase «like mountaintop removal coal mining»
«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.
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The Clean Water Protection Act is a bill in the US House of Representatives which will sharply reduce mountaintop removal coal mining by protecting our headwater streams, where our rivers, like the Mississippi and the Ohio, are born.
He'll be profiling the choice in front of us: green energy solutions like wind, solar and geothermal, or polluting energy problems like coal burning, nuclear plants, mountaintop removal mining and, of course, catastrophic oil spills.
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.
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.