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Yale Event on Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

December 2, 2009

Posted by Rob Perks in Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment

Tags:
appalachia, coalmining, dirtycoal, levelingappalachia, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR, yale

If you happen to be in New Haven, Connecticut tomorrow evening, please feel free to attend a screening of the amazing Yale-produced documentary on mountaintop removal: Leveling Appalachia. During the last two decades, mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia has destroyed or...

Verizon Wireless and its Not So Rowdy Friends of America

September 15, 2009

Posted by Rob Perks in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment

Tags:
appalachia, climate, coal, coalmining, dirtycoal, donblankenship, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR, verizon

"I'd seen big crowds.  This wasn't a big crowd.  It was puny and sort of bored."   -- Bill Lynch Forgive me for beating a dead horse, but I just can't resist a parting shot at Don Blankenship's pathetic Friends of...

FACES: Grassroots Fail

August 27, 2009

Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment

Tags:
ACES, climate, climatebill, coal, dirtycoal, FACES, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR

First there was Reclamation Fail (inspired by my new favorite funny website).  Now there is... Grassroots Fail   The back story is that the coal industry hired a PR firm to concoct this faux grassroots group to support its dirty energy...

Stephen Colbert Slams Supreme Court for Terrible Toxic 'Fill' Ruling

July 2, 2009

Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
cleanwateract, colbert, fill, fillrule, obama, stephencolbert, supreme

Last week the U.S. Supreme Court made a dreadful decision to allow the dumping of toxic gold mine waste into a pristine Alaskan lake.  The court deemed this pollution allowable as "fill material" under the Clean Water Act.  Well, last night on The Colbert...

Rob Perks
Rob Perks
Director, Center for Advocacy Campaigns
Washington, D.C.
I run NRDC's Center for Advocacy Campaigns. Our shop exists to guide NRDC's policy and...
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