Sentences with phrase «protesting mountaintop removal coal 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.

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We gathered outside the main entrance, while speakers called out PNC as a target of protest because it is the largest U.S. financier of mountaintop removal coal mining.

Around 100 people are arrested outside the White House during a protest against mountaintop removal coal mining, including the NASA climate scientist James E. Hansen.

In September 2010 the Rainforest Action Network dumped 1,000 pounds of Appalachia dirt on the sidewalk of EPA headquarters in Washington DC in protest of Arch Coal's mountaintop removal operation, the Spruce 1 Mine.

Calling Protest Extremism Stifles Legitimate Public Discussion & Action Second, there is the possibility of genuine extremism out there in the broad environmental movement: Blockading a mountaintop removal coal mine or loudly protesting outside one is one thing, specifically threatening workers or mine owners with violence (which to my knowledge has never happened, I only use it as an example), would be another entirely.