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A Film Investigation of the Coal Industry
Activists Pull Elaborate ‘Fossil Fools Day’ Prank on Coal Burning Xcel Energy
Spoof Website, Press Release and Letter Announce that Xcel Will Completely Abandon Fossil Fuels
Spoof Website, Press Release and Letter Announce that Xcel Will Completely Abandon Fossil Fuels
EPA Uses Science, Health and Environmental Justice to Guide New Rules on Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
Appalachians Hail Announcement by Lisa Jackson as Victory for Communities and Clean Water Act
EPA moves to block the largest MTR mine in West Virginia
Pro-Coal Democrats and Industry Lobbyists React
by Amanda Starbuck
We’re hearing some reassuring news from the EPA this morning.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it is moving to block the largest mountaintop removal mining permit in West Virginia history, at Spruce Mine, operated by Arch Coal in Logan County.
I Just Pledged to End Mountaintop Removal in 2010, Will You?
RAN Launches Pledge to End Mountain Removal in 2010
I spent last week in Wise Virginia with 100 Appalachian coalfield residents, students and youth from up and down the east coast, direct actionistas living in WV, TN, KY and VA and retired union coal miners at Mountain Justice Spring Break. The theme of the camp focused on mountaintop removal (MTR), coal, local communities and Appalachian culture and what we’re doing to turn around this highly destructive fossil fuel economy.
Two days locked-down to the EPA campaigning to end mountaintop removal
Sitters in tri-pods up over 30 hours
Reposted from the Understory
By Amanda Starbuck
RAN activists have spent two days locked-down to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), demanding justice for the people of Appalachia by enforcing the Clean Water Act and ending mountaintop removal mining (MTR).
Breaking: Anti-MTR Activists Risk Arrest at EPA HQ with Elaborate Protest
Demand Immediate Action to Stop Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
Activists Risk Arrest with Elaborate Protest at EPA HQ; Demand Immediate Action to Stop Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
Group Erects Purple Mountain Majesty At EPA; Say “If Administrator Lisa Jackson Won’t Visit the Appalachian Mountains, They Will Bring The Mountains to Her”
85 Supporters of Mountain Justice gather at Natural Tunnel State Park for Spring Break
End mountaintop removal coal mining, support sustainable economies, say participants
This week I’m at Mountain Justice Spring Break with folks from all over Appalachia and the east coast. Ex-coal miners, college studens, people from Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, California, West Virginia and lots more are here.
85 Supporters of Mountain Justice gather at Natural Tunnel State Park for Spring Break
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Contact: Marley Green, green.marley@gmail.com
Rev. Billy:Let Us CHASE the Devil out of Mountaintop Removal!
Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Join the Campaign to End Mountaintop Removal
Today, I got the following email from Rev. Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping:
Our new song “Mountain-top” begins with this re-questioning from Dr. King’s last sermon:
Have we been to the mountain-top?
Did we do all we could do?
JP Morgan rains down rock
Exploding loans from the Devil came due…
Help Sustain Direct Action in the Coalfields of Appalachia
Support 14 Activists Who Courageously Stopped Mountaintop Removal
Dear Friends,
