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Activists Sit Down so EPA Will Stand up to King Coal
Rainforest Action Network stages lockdown at EPA HQ
10 Jul 10
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Cross posted from the RAN Understory

 By Nell Greenberg

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EPA’s New Guidelines Promising Strict Enforcement of Mountaintop Removal…. Not So Strict
EPA Approves Pine Creek Permit Allowing for More Destruction
29 Jun 10
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I’m pissed off and ready for a fight.  King Coal drives all over Appalachia’s land and people like Keith Richards on a five day bender, and the EPA gives them the keys to the liquor cabinet.

How long before the compromisers at the EPA and in the Obama administration figure out that there is no kinder gentler version of mountaintop removal coal mining.

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Appalachia Rising: Mobilize to End Mountaintop Removal!
Join the Anti-MTR Movement in September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC
16 Jun 10
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Today, a coalition of coalfield residents and organizations held a press conference in Charleston, WV announcing a mass mobilization, called “Appalachia Rising” in Washington D.C. to “mobilize to end mountaintop removal.”

Below is their vision statement.

Appalachia Rising:

Mobilize to End Mountaintop Removal!

September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC

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Cracks in Big Coal’s Empire
Wall Street and Washington Feeling the Heat
1 Sep 10
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
-Gandhi

Don Blankenship’s empire is crumbling, rapidly.  Mountaintop removal coal mining may well be on it’s way out.  The money’s drying up.  Appalachia is rising in Washington D.C.  And we’re seeing some VERY interesting developments on Wall Street and in Washington.

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Moutaintop Removal is Dirty

Coen Brothers on 'Clean Coal'