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how will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) [UPDATED] 1
Posted 1 month ago Sen. Robert Byrd hated the climate bill that passed the House in June, but he seems a little more open to the Kerry-Boxer bill being considered in the Senate.
Liberate Appalachia and Take Primacy

Urgent letter to EPA and Interior Dept. from coalfield residents 2
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Coalfield residents from West Virginia have issued an extraordinary letter pleading with EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to halt mountaintop-removal mining.
Is Gov. Manchin the new Bilbo?

Where’s the national outrage on Blair Mountain? 3
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
When Walmart recently announced its intention to build a super-center near the Wilderness Battlefield in Virginia, filmmaker Ken Burns and a host of Pulitzer Prize-winning historians denounced the move for its obvious offense to our national heritage site.

We need that same outrage for another battlefield under assault.
Dear Sen. Byrd: Restoring mountains could be your greatest legacy

A plea to West Virginia’s legendary Senator to stop mountaintop removal 1
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
With daily ammonium nitrate/fuel oil explosions from mountaintop removal operations rocking his home and dismantling the mountain above his community, Bo Webb, a Vietnam vet, recently penned an appeal to his West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd to co-sponsor the Appalachian Mountain Restoration Act to stop mountaintop removal and launch a green jobs initiative in Appalachia.