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• Who is really to blame?

  
  STOP Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining — Authority: 117
  Coal Company Cuts 500 Jobs in West Virginia, Blames Environmentalists If an innocent bystander is in court testifying to a murder he or she witnessed, is the bystander guilty of murder? Blaming these layoffs on the environmentalists/residents is like the murderer trying to convince a jury he is completely ...
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• Coal Country

  
  Coarse Cracked Corn — Authority: 118
  We usually dont think of the Shenandoah Valley as being part of coal county. But, there is some coal in our mountains and "Nationwide Permit 21," which governs mountaintop removal coal mining , extends into areas generally seen as part of the Valley - all the way to Rockbridge and Bath counties. With that in mind and ...
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• Coal Company Cuts 500 Jobs in West Virginia, Blames Environmentalists

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 796
  Filed under: Environment Pittsburgh-based CONSOL Energy announced this week that it plans to lay off 500 worker in West Virginia because of environmental regulation and litigation. The layoffs could come in early 2010 and will affect workers of the Little Eagle and Fola coal companies near Bickmore, W.Va. "It ...
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• RFK Jr – It’s A Crime

  
  STOP Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining — Authority: 117
  From the rally at the WV Department of Environmental Protection. Patchwork Films
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• Endmtr.com, Two Years Later

  
  STOP Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining — Authority: 117
  In January of 2008 I wrote this mission statement for the blog. What do I hope to accomplish? Plan A – Education and Awareness I’m here to make you aware of MTR and some things you can do from the comfort of your computer chair to help. I think with the obvious negative impacts and enough awareness everything ...
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• A surprise visit on ninth day of Roland’s fast

  
  Climate Ground Zero — Authority: 124
  A good day. There were many people going by, as the legislature was in session. Quite a few people either gave me signals of encouragement as they walked by, and others stopped to personally express their sympathies. Vince Pawloski, the guy from Tucson who’s been fasting for over 40 days, paid me an interesting ...
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• Coal River Mountain, WV DEP, & Copenhagen

  
  STOP Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining — Authority: 117
  As climate talks began in Copenhagen today, a rally to save Coal River Mountain was being held in front of West Virginia’s Department of Environmental Protection. Activists from all across the region and other parts of the country called on the WV DEP to stop the blasting by Massey Energy on Coal River Mountain. ...
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• Coal River Mountain, WV DEP, & Copenhagen

  
  STOP Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining — Authority: 117
  As climate talks began in Copenhagen today, a rally to save Coal River Mountain was being held in front of West Virginia’s Department of Environmental Protection. Activists from all across the region and other parts of the country called on the WV DEP to stop the blasting by Massey Energy on Coal River Mountain. ...
  6 days ago

• Kennedy calls mountaintop removal mining a crime

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 165
  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Monday that mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia is a crime, and that if the American people could see it, there would be a revolution.
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• FPR: Thanksgiving

  
  Front Porch Radio with Julie Norris — Authority: 106
  Henry & Amber Melendy and Sandra Diaz join us for an informal conversation about what’s going on in and around Orlando.
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• A Charleston day…

  
  Thoughts and Ruminations — Authority: 115
  In the lectionary today,I read in Psalm 145.It is a prayer of thankfulness.It is a celebration of God’s character.The author proclaims,“The Lord is good to all,he has compassion over all He has made.”As I read this,it seems the Lord is concerned for ALL the relationships he put into place.Yes, the breath the ...
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• Agendas

  
  The Goat Rope — Authority: 125
  Random animal picture. Many Americans at one time or another were taught in public school a little bit about "how a bill becomes law." The textbook version leaves out a lot of the chaos, messiness and such. As a bit of a policy wonk, I find this kind of thing fascinating, but the subject really matters to lots of ...
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• The Indypendent Takes Home Five Ippies Awards for Excellence in Ethnic and Community Media

  
  The Indypendent — Authority: 502
  The Indypendent won a total of five awards at the 8th Annual Ippies Awards . The awards, which are sponsored by the New York City Community Media Alliance , honor outstanding work in the ethnic and community media in New York City. Over the past seven years The Indypendent has won more than 50 Ippies Awards. ...
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• Award ceremony

  
  The Goat Rope — Authority: 125
  It is not the usual practice of this blog to issue awards, mostly because nobody cares what I think, but Im making an exception in this case. The first official Goat Rope Rock On With Your Bad Self Award --the highest award I have to bestow--goes to WV Senator Robert C. Byrd for having the guts to speak some truth ...
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• Spotlight On Prosperity – Lindytown, WV

  
  STOP Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining — Authority: 117
  When I began my battle against mountaintop removal coal mining, the motivation was not environmental. It had nothing to do with mayflies, streams, or valley fills. As a matter of fact I was completely ignorant of the environmental impacts until after my battle had already begun. My problem with mountaintop removal ...
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• Roland Micklem is My Hero

  
  Climate Ground Zero — Authority: 124
  The phone rang in the Climate Ground Zero office. I picked it up and the voice on the other was loud and gruff; “Hello, this is Roland Micklem”. He was speaking very slowly. Roland Micklem – Images by antrim caskey “I want to come down and join your campaign against mountain top removal. I’m a 82 year ...
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• UMD for Clean Energy Meets Lisa Jackson, Delivers Letter

  
  CCAN Blog — Authority: 419
  Our Political Liaison and Lisa Jackson This is a cross-post from my friend Davey Rogner, a former member of the University of Maryland student activist group UMD for Clean Energy , who wrote this on his blog The Harvest Collective . I also posted it on my blog . I’m currently the Campaign Director of ...
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• UMD for Clean Energy Meets Lisa Jackson, Delivers Letter

  
  It's Getting Hot In Here — Authority: 619
  Our Political Liaison and Lisa Jackson This is a cross-post from my friend Davey Rogner, a former member of the University of Maryland student activist group UMD for Clean Energy , who wrote this on his blog The Harvest Collective .  I also posted it on my blog .  I’m currently the Campaign Director ...
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• The Adventures of Green Grandpa

  
  Alternative Health, Natural, Environmental & Organic News Blog — Authority: 124
  Mountaintop Removal Mining is a coal-mining practice used commonly by Appalachian miners which not only destroys the surface of mountain tops but also the valleys below, and contaminates the waterways. Not good, people, not good. A local West Virginian activist, 81-year-old Roland Micklem , is protesting the ...
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• Lockdown on the Cliffside Coal Plant Generator

  
  Coal is Dirty - Clean Coal Industry News — Authority: 109
  Concerned citizens block shipment of generator to Cliffside Coal Plant. Greenville, SC Two protestors have locked themselves to the 1.5 million pound generator destined for Duke Energy’s Cliffside coal plant in Rutherford County, North Carolina. Protestors are vowing to prevent the generator, which has been ...
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