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• Massey Energy is Blasting on Coal River Mountain, Endangering Local Lives -Video

  
  Twilight Earth — Authority: 494
  Appalachia’s West Virginians unite to stop Massey Energy Mountain Top Removal In West Virginia, Massey Energy has begun blasting operations on Coal River Mountain despite deep opposition from environmental groups and critics of mountaintop removal mining. The Brushy Fork impoundment is an enormous retention ...
  2 days ago

• Just £159.00 for Champneys Spa Day - Other Products

  
  My Bloggerings — Authority: 159
  £159.00 Info / Buy Product Information A day at a Champneys health resort is a guarantee of the finest of pampering available. Choose from the impressive Tring or Forest Mere resorts for your spa day. Tring is the elegant Rothschild Mansion in ...
  3 days ago

• EPA Investigating Legality of Coal River Mountain Destruction

  
  Hill Heat — Authority: 499
  West Virginia residents have spent years battling the loss of Coal River Mountain to mountaintop removal mining. At the end of October, Massey Energy began dynamiting at the site. Opponents of the mountain’s destruction say the Environmental Protection Agency has the full authority and legal and moral ...
  4 days ago

• Blowing up our clean energy future

  
  It's Getting Hot In Here — Authority: 600
  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 days ago

• EPA Response to Sit-in Protest

  
  It's Getting Hot In Here — Authority: 600
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Activists Protest Mountaintop Mining at TVA

  
  Chattarati, Chattanooga news and opinion — Authority: 473
  Late Friday afternoon, a small group of environmental activists and citizens—numbering less than two dozen shortly after 5:00 p.m.—gathered outside the Chattanooga offices of the Tennessee Valley Authority to protest mountaintop mining. The protest was organized by United Mountain Defense , a Knoxville-based ...
  1 week ago

• West Virginians Come to DC to Protest Mountaintop Removal at the EPA

  
  Twilight Earth — Authority: 494
  I had the distinct honor of meeting and speaking with Bo Webb, Mountaintop Removal Protester and Activist, outside the EPA offices in Washington DC today. It was a chilly and overcast day in Washington DC, when environmental activists from Appalachia got out of their cars and vans and started pounding makeshift ...
  1 week ago

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

  
  WattHead - Energy News and Commentary — Authority: 129
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Activists Stage Sit-In at EPA to Protest Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 547
  Morgan Goodwin : As part of a national day of action to stop mountaintop removal coal mining, 14 activists have staged a sit in at 11:30 the EPA. Dozens others are also holding a rally in front. They are asking the EPA to take immediate action to stop the mountaintop removal blasting that began this week on Coal ...
  1 week ago

• DC Mountaintop Removal Protest Heats Up

  
  The Understory : Understory.RAN.org — Authority: 536
  Across Country Coalition of Environmental Groups Call for EPA to Stop Recent Blasting on Coal River Mountain, WV; Site of Proposed Wind Farm More than Fifty Stage Sit-In and Rally at EPA Headquarters in DC What you can do right now: Call EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and ask her to stop the blasting at ...
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• Blasting begins on Coal River Mountain

  
  KFTC Blog — Authority: 468
  "The day we have fought for years has arrived – Massey Energy has begun blasting Coal River Mountain, and we and local residents are calling on our allies across the nation and world to demand an end to the destruction.  Massey is blasting the containing ridge of a slurry impoundment that holds 8.2 billion gallons ...
  1 week ago

• “Terminate the rate” campaign passed onto Ofcom

  
  GEEK! — Authority: 118
  The petition held by the “Terminate the Rate” group, supported by mobile network 3, has today been handed on to telecommunications controller Ofcom. The petition was signed by a total of 114,259 people ( according to BBC News ) and was used to help knock down the cost of the MTR (mobile termination rate). Ofcom ...
  1 week ago

• Law Students Ready for Work

  
  Red Lion Reports — Authority: 113
  York College of Pennsylvania conducted a national survey of human resources directors and business leaders who make hiring decisions. The study showed that the most important factor that people who hire considered in whether to make a job offer is the candidates demeanor in five areas: 1) personal interaction ...
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• A Month In Hong Kong

  
  MikeMmery — Authority: 119
  Its approaching my first month here in Hong Kong (HKG). I am not totally familiar as yet but today I am going to share a bit of the place where I am currently staying, my clients office and perhaps some tips if you are visiting HKG anytime soon. Hong Kong is split into 3 areas; New Territories, Kowloon ...
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• (ALV) Autoliv Returns to Profitability

  
  Stock Blog Hub — Authority: 506
  Autoliv (ALV) has shown a profit of $33.7 million or 37 cents per share in the third quarter of the year, after reporting losses for the preceding three quarters. The Sweden-based supplier of automotive safety systems has also beaten the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 24 cents per share. Nevertheless, earnings declined ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hype to Habit 2: Mountaintop Removal, Ecofont, and Swimming In Sewers

  
  Creative Citizen Blog — Authority: 103
  This week’s Hype To Habit is all about the home and how a few parts of your daily life have a dramatic impact on the environment. Read through the articles to find Creative Solutions on each story. You Have to Pay to Play…at the Beach. First up, LA beaches are toxic. Which isn’t surprising given our storm ...
  2 weeks ago

• Madison County Premier of Coal Country

  
  KFTC Blog — Authority: 468
  Madison County Premier of Coal Country  This film by Mari-LynnEvans and Phylis Geller is a dramatic look at modern coal mining. Weget to know working miners along with ac tivists who are battling coalcompanies in Appalachia. Both sides in this conflict claim that historyis on their side. Come and find out for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Less than 3% of former surface mine sites are developed

  
  KFTC Blog — Authority: 468
  Students from NKU visiting a reclaimed mine site near Montgomery Creek in Perry County The Lexington Herald-Leader published an interesting article this weekend citing evidence that very few surface mining sites actually get developed once all the coal has left the ground.  Data from this article flies in the ...
  3 weeks ago

• CGZ Activist Sentenced to Maximum Fines in Jury Trial

  
  Climate Ground Zero — Authority: 121
  MADISON, W. Va. – October 15, 2009 – In the second jury trial of the Climate Ground Zero campaign, Mat Louis-Rosenberg appeared before Boone County Magistrate Byrneside to plead a necessity defense on counts of trespassing and conspiracy. On May 23, Louis-Rosenberg and seven others were arrested after locking ...
  3 weeks ago

• EPA Takes First Step Toward Rare Veto of Mountaintop Mining Permit

  
  Solve Climate: Daily Climate News and Opinion — Authority: 604
  The EPA put its promise to protect mountain streams into action today, taking a rare first step toward vetoing a permit for the largest mountaintop mining operation in Appalachia. The agency has used that authority only 12 times since the Clean Water Act was enacted in 1972. And it has never vetoed a water permit ...
  3 weeks ago

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