Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
It took over 300 million years for the Appalachian mountains to form. But apparently it only takes a few years to flatten one. And that’s just what rapacious coal companies have been doing to hundreds of mountaintops over the past...
Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Nuclear Weapons, Waste and Energy , Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
We expect much from our elected leaders yet rarely do we get the opportunity to engage them on the issues we care about. So many members of Congress, yet so little chance to actually ask them where they stand on...
Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
In a single year, less than one in 100,000 Americans contract a rare form of bone marrow cancer. In Pennsylvania coal country, the rate is 15 times higher. This chilling stat opens an eye-opening, heart-rending short documentary produced by the American...
Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice
I had to reread this story to be sure it wasn't actually from The Onion. Taxpayer dollars going to spew propaganda to children about the wonders of coal and the benefits of MTR?Unbelievable. Sadly, outrageously, this is totally true. Yet...
Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment
It looks like changing your name is the new trend in the coal industry. A few weeks ago I wrote about ABEC (American’s for Balanced Energy Choices) changing their name to ACCCE (American Coalition for Clean Coal Energy), and if...
