Posted by Rob Perks in Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Hollywood couldn't script a better corporate villain than Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy, the nation's fourth largest coal company. He has built his company up largely by tearing down the mountains of his home-state of West Virginia. Under his control,...
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...
Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Forgive me, but I thought it worth sharing comments posted in response to my blog yesterday about Massey Energy's role in mountaintop removal coal mining. "Rob, I can't thank you and NRDC enough for involving yourselves in the struggle to end mountain top...
Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
A majority of Americans (85%) oppose mountaintop removal mining, according to a new nationwide poll. Perhaps not surprising but very encouraging. Of course, residents of Appalachia have long opposed this practice of blowing off the tops of mountains to get...
Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Yesterday I blogged about the Bush administration's new effort to weaken laws so coal companies can dump mining waste into America's rivers and streams. I posted a photo I took of a mountaintop mine. As one person commented, "More people...
Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
The moonscape below is a former fully-functioning ecosystem -- now devoid of forests, wildlife, wetlands and waterways that are characteristic of a mountain. This is so-called mountaintop removal coal mining -- the most destructive strip mining practice on earth --...
Posted by Rob Perks in Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming
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...
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...
