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March 10, 2010
Posted by Allen Hershkowitz in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, Living Sustainably
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- biogems, birds, coal, environmental, forests, justice, law, MTR, religion, tennessee, waterquality
As we study the universe, sending telescopes into other solar systems and far off galaxies, one thing has become abundantly clear: perhaps the rarest phenomenon in the universe is organic life. To date, despite all our intergalactic travel and research,...
December 8, 2009
Posted by Allen Hershkowitz in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, Living Sustainably
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- appalachia, christiansforthemountains, cleanwateract, coal, coalrivermountain, coalrivermountainwatch, dirtycoal, ericblevins, faith, judybonds, kentucky, larrygibson, loreleiscarbro, mariagunoe, mountainjustice, mountaintopremoval, MTR, robertfkennedyjr, rolandmicklem, westvirginia, zoebeavers
Yesterday, on the day that the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change opened in Copenhagen, I attended an anti-mountaintop removal mining rally in Charleston, West Virginia, along with more than 300 concerned citizens from West Virginia and other parts of...
June 11, 2009
Posted by Allen Hershkowitz in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- appalachia, coalindustry, mountaintopremoval, obamaadministration
Obama Administration officials announced today that they are taking "unprecedented steps to reduce the environmental impacts of mountaintop coal mining" in the six Appalachian states of Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. The announcement focuses on plans to...
May 11, 2009
Posted by Allen Hershkowitz in Curbing Pollution
, Green Enterprise
, Health and the Environment
, Living Sustainably
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- paperprocurement, paperrecycling, simplesteps, washington
Bravo to Washington State legislators and Governor Chris Gregoire for enacting on May 6th what is arguably the most ecologically progressive paper use and procurement law in the world. It is mind boggling to imagine the enormous ecological and economic...
