Sentences with phrase «stop mountaintop removal coal mining»

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.

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.

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This action aims to stop the impending destruction of Blair Mountain by mountaintop removal coal mining, strengthen labor rights, and promote sustainable Appalachian communities.

Google Earth software has created maps that stopped a plan to log more than 1,000 acres in the Santa Cruz Mountains; to raise awareness and opposition to mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia; and to discover and preserve a rare fringing coral reef in a remote area of Western Australia.

There was a group there that was particularly interested in mountaintop removal coal mining and getting the college to stop investing in coal companies, and the activist organization 350.org, which is probably the biggest grassroots climate - action organization, noticed this movement and were interested to see if they could scale it up.

Last week, presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain offered a rare moment of consensus: They agreed that mountaintop removal coal mining should be stopped... Then, a funny thing happened.

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

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 mMining directed the National Academy of Sciences to stop work on a study of potential health effects from mountaintop removal coal miningmining.