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Where's the Love?

Why won’t Lisa Jackson/Nancy Sutley visit a mountaintop removal site? 0
Posted 1 week, 4 days ago
Fearless Protest Shuts Down Mountaintop Removal Blasting

Tree-sitters do environmental regulators’ job 1
Posted 3 months ago
In a stunning blow to mountaintop removal blasting operations in the Coal River Valley of West Virginia this morning, two fearless protesters scaled massive trees and unfurled banners from their 80-foot-high platforms. Within 300 feet of the Massey Energy's Edwight mountaintop removal blasting site, above Pettry Bottom and Peachtree in Raleigh County, W. Va., the protesters called on the federal agencies to crack down on the scandal-ridden West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WV DEP) and the stop the unsafe and reckless blasting in the area.
removing mountaineers from mountaintop removal debate

Does CEQ-EPA regulatory banter abet historicide? 0
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
Mired in the acrobatics of regulatory doublespeak, the Obama administration's increasing oversight of the unbearable daily toll on Appalachian coalfield residents from mountaintop removal begs the question: Are Obama's well-meaning but irresolute environmental administrators abetting the crimes of human rights violations and historicide?
Obama’s environmental adviser talks coal and mountaintop mining 1
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
MT promises?

Obama admin will scrutinize mountaintop mining, but not stop it 7
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Obama administration on Thursday announced new steps to reduce the environmental damage from mountaintop-removal mining. Activists say that's a nice first step, but they're disappointed that the admin isn't planning to rein the practice in further and ultimately put a stop to it.
Kinder, Gentler Blasting, Leveling of Mountains, Filling of Streams

Coalfield residents respond to Obama’s announcement on mountaintop removal 1
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Obama administration has announced "unprecedented steps to reduce environmental impacts of mountaintop coal mining." Here's what coalfield residents have to say.
Time for an intervention

Breaking: Obama says mountain crimes can be regulated 6
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
In an extraordinary move to disregard a 38-year rap sheet of crimes of pollution, harassment and forced removal of some of our nation's oldest and most historic communities, and the destruction of over 500 mountains and 1.2 million acres of deciduous hardwood forests in our nation's carbon sink of Appalachia, the Obama administration will announce today that it plans to "regulate" mountaintop removal mining operations -- rather than abolishing them completely.
The administration

Key Obama advisers on climate and energy 0
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
President Barack Obama's key advisers on energy and climate issues include a former top aide to Al Gore, a Nobel Prize winner, a governor, and a gaggle of former members of Congress. Meet them.