Posted by Rob Perks in Solving Global Warming
Here's some good news... Today, U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said his agency will revisit the Bush administration's last-minute industry-friendly rule changes, including those paving the way for oil shale development in the Rockies and easing federal mining restrictions that served as the...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
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...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution
Today is a yet another day that will live in environmental infamy for the Bush administration. On its way out the door, the Bush EPA has just given the mining industry a big going-away gift by deciding to weaken a...continued→
