Monthly Archives: December 2009

Pushing the EPA for Stronger Coal Ash Regulations Now

Appalachian Voices joined with more than 100 environmental organizations including the Sierra Club, Earth Justice, Union of Concerned Scientists and the National Resource Defense Council to post a full-page ad in the New York Times on Tuesday, December 22 calling

An Urgent Issue Before Year’s End

The following email was sent to the 39,000+ supporters of iLoveMountains.org. To sign up to receive free email alerts, click here. Dear Friend of the Mountains, Dumping mine waste into a valley fill on Kayford Mountain, WV When the Bush

December 2009 / January 2010 issue in downloadable PDF

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Getting Ready for 2010

The following email was sent to the 39,000+ supporters of iLoveMountains.org. To sign up to receive free email alerts, click here. Dear Friend of the Mountains, As the Associated Press recently observed, “environmental activists gained more momentum this year than

1,000 Signatures Say No to Coal Money

On Dec. 9, a petition with over 1,000 signatures was presented to West Virginia University’s President Jim Clements by the university’s Sierra Student Coalition. The petition is a formal request that in the future the university reject donations from coal

Dangerous Toxins Contaminate Emory River

Recent reports reveal that 2.66 million pounds of 10 toxic pollutants contaminated the Emory River when TVA’s Kingston plant spilled 1 billion gallons of coal ash in 2008. The Toxics Release Inventory, filed by TVA with the Environmental Protection Agency,

Hundreds stand with RFK Jr. for the protection of Coal River Mountain

Yesterday, despite cold weather and chance of snow, hundreds of concerned citizens gathered in front of the headquarters of West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection in Charleston, W.Va. The protest and rally was held to demand that the DEP halt

COPENHAGEN, CHARLESTON, AND COAL RIVER MOUNTAIN

The following email was sent to the 39,000+ supporters of iLoveMountains.org. To sign up to receive free email alerts, click here. Today, the confluence between mountaintop removal coal mining and climate change is front and center on the streets of

EPA Declares Green House Gases an Endangerment to Human Health

“With respect to climate pollution, we will act,” Lisa Jackson, Environmental Protection Agency administrator, said Monday in a press conference. Jackson announced that the EPA has finalized their endangerment findings on greenhouse gas pollution, deeming it a threat to human

Leveling Appalachia Under the Guise of Development

Over 500 mountains have been leveled by mountaintop removal coal mining-nearly a half million acres of Appalachian land in Kentucky alone. Coal companies have defended mountaintop removal with claims that the flattened mountains provide ideal land for development and it

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