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• UMD for Clean Energy Meets Lisa Jackson, Delivers Letter

  
  It's Getting Hot In Here — Authority: 583
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Mountain Top Removal: Corps Scolded while Interior Delays

  
  Sierra Club Allegheny Group — Authority: 124
  In an important decision , on November 24 the US District Court in southern West Virginia scolded the US Army Corps of Engineers for granting permits to two MTR operations without following public notification laws. This decision, based on the Clean Water Act and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) could ...
  1 week ago

• Coal’s Dirty Little Secret: Toxic Coal Ash in Prince George’s County.

  
  CCAN Blog — Authority: 420
  Today, coal’s dirty little secret is revealed in a pretty rural portion of Prince George’s County, Maryland.  CCAN, Defenders of Wildlife, Patuxent Riverkeepers and Sierra Club filed a notice of its intent to sue the Mirant Corporation for toxic discharges emanating from their coal ash landfill in Brandywine, MD ...
  2 weeks ago

• One powerful fly

  
  theCLog — Authority: 443
  Who knew a fly could bug big business? Mayflies may seal the fate of mountaintop mining in the Appalachian hills of the eastern U.S. Companies such as Massey Energy Co. that mine coal there by stripping mountain peaks and dumping debris in streams are being asked by the Environmental Protection Agency for the first ...
  3 weeks ago

• Virginia Students: Join the “No Coal Day,” Nov. 18th

  
  CCAN Blog — Authority: 420
  Of the many amazing things I get to do as CCAN’s Virginia campus organizer, one extra bit of inspiration is how often I find myself driving along a beautiful back road and am struck by the incredible views all around me. To think that in areas of Virginia those mountains and the communities surrounding them are ...
  3 weeks ago

• King Coal: Wise Monarch or Cruel and Ruthless Despot?

  
  popular logistics — Authority: 421
  Chris Dorst, Charleston, WV Gazette. According to Mortality Rates in Appalachian Coal Mining Counties: 24 Years Behind the Nation , by Michael Hendryx, of the Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, http://www.sludgesafety.org/health/Mortality_Coal.pdf , mortality is 10.21 % ...
  3 weeks ago

• Blowing up our clean energy future

  
  It's Getting Hot In Here — Authority: 583
  Cross posted from Grist Last week, blasting began on Coal River Mountain in West Virginia. This is a part of the country where dynamite routinely goes off—turning the region’s historic mountain ranges into dust for the tiny coal seams that lie beneath their surface. But Coal River Mountain is special, or, ...
  4 weeks ago

• EPA Response to Sit-in Protest

  
  It's Getting Hot In Here — Authority: 583
  Last Friday’s EPA protest ended with these words of understanding from the EPA officials.  The 13 activists who sat in the building for over 4 hours felt like their point had been made loud and clear and left of their own free will, without any legal action. I posted a live-blog during the event, with the ...
  5 weeks ago

• Breaking: EPA Sit-In to Spark Urgent Action on MTR

  
  WattHead - Energy News and Commentary — Authority: 126
  Live blog (See release below for more details:) 2:02 All activists still sitting inside. Outside protest marched under EPA archways chanting loudly and are still causin a ruckus outside in solidarity. Activists arent leaving until blasting on Coal River Mountain stops 1:57 more great photos and accounts from ...
  5 weeks ago

• ALERT: Blasting Begins on Coal River Mountain

  
  It's Getting Hot In Here — Authority: 583
  An update from Coal River Mountain Watch and Appalachian Voices . You can take emergency action here. Mountaintop Removal Mining to Destroy 6,600 Acres-and Wind Potential Appalachian community advocates and environmentalists across the nation are expressing outrage that mountaintop removal coal mining ...
  6 weeks ago

• ALERT: Blasting Begins on Coal River Mountain

  
  WattHead - Energy News and Commentary — Authority: 126
  An update from Coal River Mountain Watch and Appalachian Voices . You can take emergency action here. Mountaintop Removal Mining to Destroy 6,600 Acres-and Wind Potential Appalachian community advocates and environmentalists across the nation are expressing outrage that mountaintop removal coal mining ...
  6 weeks ago

• Front line in the war on the climate

  
  California Greening — Authority: 131
  We seem to have declared war on the climate and appear to be winning, for a change. The front line in this war is in West Virginia and Obama is sending all of our troops to Afghanistan. Please read this post by Bo Webb over at Grist. It tells you what is happening on to the ground. Then call Sen. Boxers office ...
  6 weeks ago

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