Cross posted from Appalachian Voices’ Front Porch Blog
Polluting Industries Caught Forging Support
When you are a small non-profit working to reform billion dollar industries, you can take some solace when the other side is damaging their own case far more seriously than regular citizens ever could. The last few days have been a highlight reel of [...]

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cross-posted from the CCAN blog
Yesterday, the EPA performed a turn-around on its protection of the locations of 44 “high risk” coal ash impoundment sites, signaling a desire to make the regulatory body more transparent. Formerly protected under the auspices of national security, the ash impoundments, located in Ohio, Arizona, and throughout the southeast, have [...]

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Governor Tim Kaine of Virginia, a close ally to President Obama and current head of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), came out with this statement in favor of the Administration’s proposal regarding mountaintop removal removal yesterday.
“I applaud the new guidelines announced by the administration which will impose tighter restrictions on mountaintop mining.
“In Virginia, we’ve always [...]

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Mountaintop removal is hard to ignore when it’s in your backyard. Bo Webb, whose home on Cherry Pond Mountain lies near an active mountaintop removal mine. In his recent letter to President Obama, asking him to take executive action against the destructive mining practice, Webb painted a picture of how living near a mine site [...]

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February 23, 2009
As always, there’s plenty going on in the mountains this week. We’re very excited about the introduction of the Appalachian Mountains Preservation Act in Georgia (the number one consumer of MTR coal in the nation!) and Maryland in the last two weeks, to be followed with the introduction of the bill in North [...]

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Crossposted from Appalachian Voices’ Front Porch Blog and iLovemountains.org
Operation Endangers Community, Destroys Wind Energy Potential

Residents of the Coal River Valley, accompanied by supporters from across Appalachia, took a stand this morning against the impending destruction of their mountain in the name of coal. Five activists with Climate Ground Zero and Mountain Justice chained themselves to [...]

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This is cross-posted from CCAN’s Blog
Yesterday Gov. Kaine applauded Virginia’s electrical co-ops for donating energy efficient lights to Virginia State Parks, hailing it as “a major step forward” for Virginia.
It’s great that Virginia is taking strides to be more energy efficient. Considering Virginia spent just $84,000 statewide on efficiency measures in 2006, compared with [...]

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Crossposted from ilovemountains.org by SarahV
January 19, 2009
With the opening of the Congressional session last week, and the inauguration on Tuesday all eyes are on capitol hill.
This, thought the folks here at iLoveMountains, makes it the perfect time to roll out a new weekly feature. We’re taking a page from the great Stephen Colbert and [...]

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The strip-mined landscape in Wise, Virginia.
By Janet L. Parker, Ph.D. | January 12, 2009 (Center for American Progress)

Tennessee’s recent sludge spill is an obvious reminder that irresponsible coal practices are dirty and devastating.
Mountain-top removal coal mining is dirty, noisy, and scars the landscape. It has also harmed Kathy Selvage’s mother’s prayer time. Selvage is [...]

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Virginia, like the nation, is at a critical juncture. The economy is declining and the climate is warming with potentially catastrophic consequences. Right now, Virginia has an enormous opportunity to secure a clean energy future that will reinvigorate the economy and curb emissions of harmful greenhouse gases.
Will you join us in seizing this enormous opportunity?
We [...]

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As Trout Unlimited recently reported, “Forget about record temperatures and shrinking icebergs - the real stories of global warming’s effects in the wild and on the water are told by hunters and anglers.”
While predictions of global warming are serious for all freshwater fish, they are dire for trout. “It doesn’t take a big jump [...]

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TheBlog
Since many of you are new to blogging I thought I would create a quick and easy tutorial on how to format your text and add pictures to your blog. This is meant for the Authors of this blog and is to be read while viewing the “Write Post” page where all the nuts and [...]

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