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Mountaintop Removal: Its Time Bring This American Tragedy to an End
2015-03-18 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: An escalating series of lawsuits, government rulings, banking decisions and breakthrough health studies has brought the fate of devastating mountaintop removal mining in central Appalachia to the doorstep of state and federal decision-makers this week. Mountaintop removal is not just on the ropesits down for the countand several fronts carry the same knockout message: Given the urgent health crisis from the reckless mining operation, the federal government and the states can no longer wait to...
1,000 People Needed to End Mountaintop Removal
2015-03-14 14:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: A reinvigorated Peoples Foot movement to end mountaintop removal is ramping up its efforts next week, as the last vestiges of outside support begin to abandon the nations most egregious strip mining operations in central Appalachia. Mountaintop removal is on the ropes, said Bob Kincaid, with the Appalachian Community Health Emergency campaign and board president of Coal River Mountain Watch in West Virginia, but we need 1,000 people to join us in the streets and in our campaign as subscribing...
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Groups Demand EPA Regulate Toxic Water Pollution from Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
2015-01-08 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: As my colleague Mary Anne Hitt noted in her highlights of 2014 column weve had some significant victories in the fight against the destruction of mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia over the past year. But there is still so much to be done to stop this horrible practice from devastating our communities, our health and our wild Appalachian places. Thats why the Sierra Club joined a coalition of groups taking legal action this week to compel the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...
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Mountaintop Removal Linked to Cancer
2014-10-20 16:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: We know what a mess mountaintop removal makes when the tops of mountains are literally blown off to access the coal inside them. Forests are stripped and debris is dumped into streams and valleys, leaving behind a ravaged landscape. It`s partly responsible for the loss of jobs in the coal industry since it requires only a handful of workers to operate the huge machines involved. Now we`re learning that the process, which has been touted by advocates as cleaner and safer than below-ground coal mining,...
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Court Blocks West Virginia Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine
2014-10-02 23:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: A long court battle came to an end Tuesday when a federal judge upheld the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's denial of a permit for a large, contentious mountaintop removal coal mine in Appalachia, the Spruce No. 1 Mine. Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia found no merit in the coal industry's arguments that Mingo Logan coal company should be allowed to remove a West Virginia mountaintop to get at coal deposits and dump the waste soil and rock...
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