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A new poll released yesterday of likely voters in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia shows widespread opposition to mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining and overwhelming support for enforcement of the Clean Water Act to better protect rivers and streams from the impacts of MTR. In a statement that accompanies the release, the pollsters said: [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 30, 2010
Appalachia Rising Converges on White House in Mass Action Thousands Call for Abolition of Mountaintop Removal in Action at White House; Over 115 arrested in non-violent civil disobedience It was crazy times in our nation’s capitol this last week. Appalachia Rising, a mass mobilization calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal coal mining, converged thousands [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 1, 2010
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” -Gandhi Don Blankenship‘s empire is crumbling. 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 [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 23, 2010
It was only 5 years ago, that a group of Appalachian residents, southeastern Earth First!ers, students, crusty punks, environmentalists and many others came together for the first Mountain Justice Summer (MJS). In the summer of 2005, they traveled around to a number of communities being destroyed by mountaintop removal to offer solidarity and support. The [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 15, 2010
This week I’m at Mountain Justice Spring Break with folks from all over Appalachia and the east coast. Ex-coal miners, college students, people from Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, California, West Virginia and lots more are here. Here’s the scoop from Marley Green… 85 Supporters of Mountain Justice gather at [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 3, 2010
We’ve got some friends in New York joining 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? [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 2, 2010
RAN’s Coal Campaign is bringing this theatrical production to San Francisco. If are in the Bay and can make, please do! “Welcome to the Saudi Arabia of Coal” An original play by Jeff Biggers. Created by The Coal Free Future Project. Featuring Jeff Biggers, Ben Evans and Stephanie Pistello Directed by Stephanie Pistello Film projection [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 22, 2010
Last Thursday, Rainforest Action Network along with several online allies including 350.org, Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, the Waterkeeper Alliance, the Ruckus Society and others re-branded JP Morgan Chase in social media networks as being the largest U.S. funder of mountaintop removal [which is also the truth, BTW]. In the days before, the re-branding of Chase [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 17, 2010
JP Morgan Chase is the biggest U.S. financier of mountaintop removal. They have financial relationships with the poster child of mountaintop removal, Massey Energy. That means their money is funds sludge impoundments like Brushy Fork which is currently holding 7 billion gallons of coal waste above the Coal River Valley. Their money funds the dragline [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 29, 2010
Take action today and demand that the EPA regulate coal ash and other coal combustion wastes as a hazardous waste under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). The Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) devastating coal ash slurry spill in Eastern Tennessee was just over a year ago. Take action with the Waterkeeper Alliance and pressure [...]
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