Grist Comment Feed en http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-07-rural-county-asks-epa-chief/ Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:43:14 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-07-rural-county-asks-epa-chief/1 http://www.merriam-webster.com/images/audio.gifPronunciation: \?le-v?\ Function:noun Inflected Form(s):plural lev·iesEtymology:Middle English, from Anglo-French levé, literally, raising, from lever to raise — more at leverDate:13th century 1 a: the imposition or collection of an assessment b: an amount levied2 a: the enlistment or conscription of men for military service b: troops raised by levy


Main Entry:2lev·ee http://www.merriam-webster.com/images/audio.gifPronunciation: \?le-v?\ Function:noun Etymology:French levée, from Old French, act of raising, from lever to raise — more at leverDate:circa 1720 1 a: an embankment for preventing flooding b: a river landing place : pier2: a continuous dike or ridge (as of earth) for confining the irrigation areas of land to be flooded


]]> http://www.merriam-webster.com/images/audio.gifPronunciation: \?le-v?\ Function:noun Inflected Form(s):plural lev·iesEtymology:Middle English, from Anglo-French levé, literally, raising, from lever to raise — more at leverDate:13th century 1 a: the imposition or collection of an assessment b: an amount levied2 a: the enlistment or conscription of men for military service b: troops raised by levy


Main Entry:2lev·ee http://www.merriam-webster.com/images/audio.gifPronunciation: \?le-v?\ Function:noun Etymology:French levée, from Old French, act of raising, from lever to raise — more at leverDate:circa 1720 1 a: an embankment for preventing flooding b: a river landing place : pier2: a continuous dike or ridge (as of earth) for confining the irrigation areas of land to be flooded


]]> http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-07-rural-county-asks-epa-chief/ Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:23:11 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-07-rural-county-asks-epa-chief/2 Clearly the new and improved, clean, green, hybrid coal industry isn't really that clean.  Wise County, Virginia is getting some new sludge ponds, yeah... just what we need.  politician$ and profit machine$ could care less, our water, air and land is a toxic 3rd world Appalachia.  http://www.wisecountyissues.com/?p=138  How would you like it if your home and community is being encroached upon by a mountaintop removal mining site ? 

]]> Clearly the new and improved, clean, green, hybrid coal industry isn't really that clean.  Wise County, Virginia is getting some new sludge ponds, yeah... just what we need.  politician$ and profit machine$ could care less, our water, air and land is a toxic 3rd world Appalachia.  http://www.wisecountyissues.com/?p=138  How would you like it if your home and community is being encroached upon by a mountaintop removal mining site ? 

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