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May 4, 2010
Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Reviving the World's Oceans
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- BP, britishpetroleum, cleanenergy, climate, climatebill, climatelegislation, dirtyenergy, drilling, gulfcoast, gulfspill, ocs, oil, oildrilling
Talk about having your head stuck in the oil-soaked sand. In the wake of the Gulf Coast oil spill, Sarah Palin recently reiterated her commitment to the slogan 'drill here, drill now', writing on her Facebook page: "All responsible energy development...
December 19, 2008
Posted by Rob Perks in Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- coalmining, kentucky, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR, streambufferrule
Our friends at Appalachian Voices have a campaign to save America's Most Endangered Mountains from "strip-mining on steroids" -- otherwise known as mountaintop removal mining. The latest mountain in the cross-hairs of Big Coal is a ridge top above Wilson Creek in Kentucky. Here...
December 3, 2008
Posted by Rob Perks in Environmental Justice
- Tags:
- coal, kayford, massey, mining, mountaintopremoval
Great news: One of the biggest banks in the land is saying NO to the baddest strip mining on earth -- mountaintop removal coal mining. This summer, after months of conversations, some top executives from Bank of America agreed to accompany...
November 19, 2008
Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, Solving Global Warming
Political momentum appears to be building against the egregious, outrageous practice of mountaintop removal mining. First of all, last month on the campaign trail President-Elect Obama expressed his concerns about this strip mining on steroids. Now comes welcome news that...
October 8, 2008
Posted by Rob Perks in Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- coal, coalmining, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval
Three cheers for our friends at Coal River Mountain Watch for their continued persistence in fighting Massey Energy Company's efforts to gain approval from federal and state authorities so they can blast the mountain into oblivion to mine coal. A...
May 15, 2008
Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
- Tags:
- coalmining, kentucky, mountaintopremoval
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...
February 21, 2008
Posted by Rob Perks in Environmental Justice
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- appalachia, coalmining, miningdestruction, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR
It's good to know that Kentuckians have laws to protect their communities from the abuses of our throwaway society. While spending time recently in the eastern part of the state, I was relieved when I read a front page story...
