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• Trading on Disaster

  Published: August 23, 2007, 10:32 pm

  Tags: Mining, Coal, Mountaintop Removal

  the coal mining practice of mountaintop removal. The technique involves blasting off the tops of mountains and dumping the rubble into valleys and streams. It has been used in Appalachian coal country for 20 years under a cloud of legal and regulatory confusion. "Under a cloud" is a nice way of saying that mountaintop removal is clearly

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• Red Blood, Black Rock

  Published: August 31, 2007, 10:11 am

  Tags: Mountaintop Removal, Coal, Mining, Clean Water Act, Clean Water Protection Act, H R 2169 110

  rules and to the practice of mountaintop removal.  And those who responded to this request indicated fundamental disagreement with the Bush position. Barack Obama spoke on mountaintop removal during a speech in Kentucky -- an area where many are familiar with this process. He said the country also needs a forward-thinking energy policy,

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• Earth vs. the Venusians

  Published: October 5, 2007, 12:04 pm

  Tags: Environment, Mountaintop Removal Mining, Lumber, Forests

  destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining, and open season is declared on our home world? Understanding the source of our afflictions explains so much.  There are no green plants on Venus, and their agents among us must hate the sight of anything green.  That's why the Bush administration announced plans to drastically

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• 30 Days to Save the Mountains

  Published: October 13, 2007, 2:59 pm

  Tags: Clean Water Protection Act, Mountaintop Removal Mining, Science, Environment

  have to be removed through mountaintop removal.  There are other ways to get at the coal that are far less destructive.  Mountaintop removal destroys forever the landscape and ecology that took four hundred million years to build.  It not only levels the mountains, it fills the streams with the silt, acid, and toxic metals that

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• 30 Days to Save the Mountains: Day 1

  Published: October 15, 2007, 5:06 pm

  Tags: Mountaintop Removal Mining, Blog Action Day, Environment

  throw open the doors to more mountaintop removal.   The answer is the Clean Water Protection Act (H. R. 2169).  It's a small piece of legislation that could do tremendous good.  Passing this bill would block the Bush administration's invitation to destruction, and for the first time impose clear restrictions on mountaintop removal

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• 30 Days to Save the Mountains: A New Day

  Published: October 16, 2007, 6:37 pm

  Tags: Mountaintop Removal Mining

  Here's the EPA's list of major environmental legislation. The Freedom of Information Act of 1966 National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 The Clean Air Act of 1970 The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act of 1972 The Endangered Species Act of 1973 The Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974 The

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• 30 Days to Save the Mountains: Says Who?

  Published: October 17, 2007, 4:04 pm

  Tags: Mountaintop Removal Mining, Clean Water Protection Act, Environment, H R 2169 110

  America.  Opposition to mountaintop removal and contour strip mining has always been a part of the Energize America plan.  But while early efforts included attempting to write our own legislation in this area, it was quickly recognized that supporting the CWPA offers the best chance to protect the mountains.  And there are better

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• 30 Days to Save the Mountains: Almost Heaven, West Virginia ...

  Published: October 19, 2007, 3:50 pm

  Tags: Mountaintop Removal, Coal, West Virginia, H R 2169 110, Front Paged

  about stopping Mountain Top Removal (MTR), the literal decapitation of swaths of America in pursuit of ever cheaper coal and ever more carbon dioxide pollution. NOTE:  I've picked up the mantle at short notice as Devilstower had "a family emergency" and asked me to step in.  First, I/we hope every is okay. Second, well, in respect for

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• 30 Days to Save the Mountains: Paradise

  Published: October 20, 2007, 3:32 pm

  Tags: Mountaintop Removal Mining, Environment, Clean Water Protection Act

  know what?  That wasn't mountaintop removal.  That was "plain old" surface mining.  Mountaintop removal mining is far, far worse.   But there is something you can do to keep new generations of kids from growing up in the Appalachian Desert.  Help them know the mountains by getting your representative to sponsor the Clean

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• 30 Days to Save the Mountains: The Curse

  Published: October 21, 2007, 3:42 pm

  Tags: Mountaintop Removal Mining, Clean Water Protection Act, Energy, Environment

  up the pieces.  It's mountaintop slaughter, and it's not the work of hundreds of years of mining.  It's the work of a few decades.  In fact, most mountaintop removal has happened in the last two decades. There is something you can do to keep the mountains standing.  Get your representative to cosponsor the Clean Water

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• 30 Days to Save the Mountains: What Richardson Says

  Published: October 24, 2007, 11:29 am

  Tags: Mountaintop Removal Mining, Clean Water Protection Act, Energy, Environment, Coal

  efforts to expand mountaintop removal and weaken existing laws getting short, has your presidential candidate made any public comment on this issue? Bill Richardson has.   The Administration's decision to streamline mountaintop mining isn't good for anyone.  Instead it's a gift to the industry that has been most loyal to

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• 30 Days to Save the Mountains: What does Dodd Say?

  Published: October 25, 2007, 10:55 am

  Tags: 30 Days To Save The Mountains, Environment, Energy, Clean Water Protection Act, Mountaintop Removal Mining

  to the rules regarding mountaintop removal -- rules for which the public comment period is growing short.  So here's what Christopher Dodd had to say about the same subject. I oppose Bush's proposal to relax environmental rules on mountaintop removal.  This rule change is an example of special interests, in this case coal

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• Bush's Appalachian War: Bombing Ancient Mountains

  Published: October 27, 2007, 12:13 pm

  Tags: Environmental, Mountaintop Removal, Valley Fills, Water Protection Act

  to bring back the over 450 mountaintops that have been razed solely to permit profitable coal mining for his buddies.  Instead of pursuing a clean energy policy, Bush has declared war on Appalachia.  Many Americans are not aware that our self-proclaimed patriotic warrior who loves to preach adherence to religious doctrine is killing

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• 30 Days to Save the Mountains: Like Lung Cancer

  Published: October 31, 2007, 11:18 am

  Tags: Mountaintop Removal Mining, 30 Days To Save The Mountains

  companies lobby so hard for mountaintop removal?  Because it's a technique that lets them get away with the sloppiest, most destructive practices imaginable to save a buck. If all mining is a cancer on the land, Mountaintop removal is invasive, aggressive lung cancer.  It rips up fragile, biologically diverse forests and ruins

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• Counting Down from Ten

  Published: November 5, 2007, 11:52 pm

  Tags: 30 Days To Save The Mountains, Clean Water Protection Act, Mountaintop Removal Mining

  those who want to practice mountaintop removal, and the death knell for both the mountains and the mountain streams. However, there is something you can do to stop this.  You can contact your representative and ask them to sign on as a cosponsor of the Clean Water Protection Act (H.R. 2169).  The CWPA is designed to stop mine waste

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