Posts Tagged ‘Mountaintop Removal’
Spread the News! Appalachians overwhelmingly oppose mountaintop removal
The following email was sent to the 100,000+ supporters of iLoveMountains.org. To sign up to receive free email alerts, click here. Great news! This week we received the results of a public opinion poll that confirms that voters in Appalachia overwhelmingly want to end mountaintop removal and strengthen protections provided by the Clean Water Act.…
Read MoreGuest Blogger: Chuck Keeney – What’s next for Blair Mountain
Cross posted from iLoveMountains.org C. Belmont Keeney, or Chuck as most people know him, has a Ph.D. in Appalachian and American History from West Virginia University. His great grandfather, Frank Keeney, was president of the United Mine Workers of America and helped organized the Miners March in 1921. Chuck was one of the principle organizers…
Read MoreBoulder crashes through home in Perry County
Cross posted from WYMT News: Federal and state officials are investigating after a boulder came crashing through a Perry County home on July 26. This was not the first time this quiet community was shaken up. “It’s shaken in here a many a time, yeah,” said Shirley Campbell, sales clerk at Campbell’s Station in Dice,…
Read MoreBreaking: New Study Links Mountaintop Removal to 60,000 Additional Cancer Cases
by Jeff Biggers, cross posted from Alternet.org Among the 1.2 million American citizens living in mountaintop removal mining counties in central Appalachia, an additional 60,000 cases of cancer are directly linked to the federally sanctioned strip-mining practice. That is the damning conclusion in a breakthrough study, released last night in the peer-reviewed Journal of Community…
Read MoreMassey Energy Gets to Continue Business-As-Usual While Tim DeChristopher Gets Two Years in Prison
Please join Appalachian Voices, Free Speech for People and Rainforest Action Network in asking that Massey Energy’s corporate charter be revoked True community exists when neighbors respect each other. Good neighbors are mindful of the impacts that their actions have on the whole. When a powerful neighbor, like a corporation, does not respect their neighbors,…
Read More[VIDEO EXTRA]: Jimmy Weekley, Paul Corbit Brown, and Blair Mountain
Expect the President to Veto H.R. 2018 – Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET WASHINGTON, D.C. 20503 July 12, 2011 (House Rules) STATEMENT OF ADMINISTRATION POLICY H.R. 2018 – Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act (Rep. Mica, R-FL, and 39 cosponsors) The Administration strongly opposes H.R 2018 because it would significantly undermine the Clean Water Act (CWA) and could adversely…
Read More1,000 Rednecks Marched on Blair Mountain!
The following email was sent to the 51,000+ supporters of iLoveMountains.org. To sign up to receive free email alerts, click here. Just a few weeks ago citizens of Blair, WV climbed to the crest of Blair Mountain with over 1,000 new allies. Movement leaders from surrounding states, union workers, students, archaeologists, activists, and friends from…
Read MoreBP Oil Spill Parallels Mountaintop Removal
Our Collective Voice By Jillian Randel Upon returning from a visit to the so-called “Coalfields”, author and activist, Terry Tempest Williams commented, “Just when you thought you can’t see anything worse than the Gulf Oil Spill, we went to Coal River Valley and I was shattered.” Today marks the one year anniversary of the explosion…
Read MoreVirginians Sure Do Love Mountains!
Reposted from Wise Energy for Virginia, a coalition committed to securing a clean energy future for Virginia. Appalachian Voices is a proud member. March 25th, 2011 was the second annual Virginia Loves Mountains Day. Instead of having a rally in one place as we did in 2010, this year we had a rally at each…
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