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In addition, activists stepped up pressure to end the practice of mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia.
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The President's climate commitment gives us great hope that he will finally address some of the remaining, worst abuses of the fossil fuel industry, including dirty and dangerous fracking, ending the devastating practice of mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia, rejecting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, halting destructive oil drilling in the Arctic, and overhauling the sweetheart deal on public lands that pads the bottom line of coal companies at public expense.
Judy Bonds (d. 2011) was awarded the Prize in 2003 for her leadership efforts against mountain top removal coal mining in Appalachia.
«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.
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.
While reporting a story in West Virginia, Bingham, a Kentucky native, witnessed the destructive effects of Mountain Top Removal coal mining for the first time.
Mountaintop removal coal mining devastates the landscape, turning areas that should be lush with forests and wildlife into barren moonscapes.
Our energy consumption funds mountaintop removal coal mining while our oil addiction fouls the air and laces the pockets of oppressive dictatorships.
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.
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.
More than 85,000 citizens sent comments to VDOT and FHWA expressing their concerns about the harm that mountaintop removal coal mining associated with this project would have on drinking water, community health, and quality of life.
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.
And in Appalachia, mountaintop removal coal mining continues its destructive path.
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.»
House Democrats point out that coal exports are on the rise, much of which comes from mountaintop removal coal mining operations in Appalachia.
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.»
Recently featured at the Sundance Film Festival, The Last Mountain sheds light the mountaintop removal coal mining debate in the US.
«The LastMountain» — great documentary on mountaintop removal coal mining screening in theaters this summer
Our interactive health mapping feature shows how residents living near mountaintop removal coal mining suffer higher cancer rates and have shorter life spans than other citizens.
Climatologist James Hansen Urges Obama to Ban Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Hansen Was Right: Cap and Trade Isn't the Solution
«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.
Mountaintop removal coal mining means blowing off most of a mountain and pushing the fill into the valleys.
side effects — a review article in ecopsychology on mountaintop removal coal mining face an increased risk of suicide.
Image credit: Richmond Diocese; Mountain top removal coal mining site in southwestern Virginia, photograph taken from the air in October 2007.
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.
Roughly 1.2 million acres, including 500 mountains, have been flattened by mountaintop removal coal mining in the central Appalachian region.
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.
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.
It is among the first studies to document mountaintop - removal coal mining's long - term impacts on watershed, and to show how mined areas contribute to local and regional streamflow.
The Deepwater Horizon; mountaintop - removal coal mining; global warming and glacial melting from the burning of fossil fuels.
«Within this plan, the Obama administration is doing all it can under existing laws and regulations to curb the most environmentally destructive impacts of mountaintop removal coal mining.»
Welcome to mountaintop removal coal mining.
Prior to joining the Center in 2007 she worked as an amphibian field biologist, conservation corps crew leader, and community organizer against mountaintop - removal coal mining.
Former NASA lead scientist James Hansen is so concerned for the future of his grandchildren, he was forced to become an activist, including an arrest to oppose mountain - top removal coal 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.
Mountaintop removal coal mining in eastern Kentucky, October 2009 © Terry Evans / Image courtesy Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago.
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».
Join us in telling the EPA and President Obama that all Americans deserve clean water, and it's time to end mountaintop removal coal mining.
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.
They spoke with their members of Congress, met with EPA officials, and even brought jugs of water from their home taps that have been contaminated by mountaintop removal coal mining.
Mountaintop removal coal mining has damaged or destroyed nearly 2,000 miles of streams and threatens to destroy 1.4 million acres of mountaintops and forests by 2020.
The 1,200 - acre permit, located on a forested ridge above the town of Appalachia, Virginia, would have had intense impacts on residents already affected by decades of mountaintop removal coal mining.
When people describe their first time seeing mountaintop removal coal mining, the response is invariably the same: dropped jaws and sunken hearts.
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.