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November 19, 2009
Posted by Rob Perks in Health and the Environment
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- appalachia, coalmining, dirtycoal, EPA, fill, fillrule, interior, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR, salazar
The Interior Department announced yesterday that it is taking immediate steps to strengthen oversight of state-approved surface coal mining operations -- including mountaintop removal -- and to impose tighter restrictions on the dumping of mining waste in steams. In a statement issued by the agency, Assistant Interior...continued→
November 16, 2009
Posted by Rob Perks in Health and the Environment
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- appalachia, coalmining, dirtycoal, EPA, mayflies, mayfly, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR
When I started my environmental career working as a grassroots coordinator for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in Virginia, one of my favorite parts of the job involved occasionally accompanying CBF educators on canoe trips to teach students and teachers the...continued→
November 13, 2009
Posted by Rob Perks in Health and the Environment
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- coalash, coalspill, dirtycoal, EPA, tennessee, tennesseevalleyauthority, TVA
The horror is unimaginable. A community suffering severe health effects, with more than a thousand residents blaming coal ash contamination for causing their sickness, including grisly birth defects in their children. This, according to a recent investigative story in the Miami Herald. Go to the article to see a...continued→
November 3, 2009
Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- appalachia, coalmining, dirtyenergy, DOI, EPA, interior, lisajackson, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR, obama, OSM, pizarchik, salazar
What is up with the U.S. Department of Interior these days? Unlike the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which appears to be walking the walk on mountaintop removal coal mining thanks to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson's leadership, it's quite another story...continued→
October 28, 2009
Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution
, Health and the Environment
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- coal, coalash, coalpollution, coalspill, coalwaste, dirtycoal, EPA, powerplants
Without a doubt coal is dirty and dangerous. Consider that the nation's power plants spew out 130 million tons of coal combustion waste every year. Much of this so-called coal ash, which is what's left at the bottom of the smokestacks after coal gets burned...continued→
October 20, 2009
Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution
, Health and the Environment
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- appalachia, coalmining, corps, dirtycoal, EPA, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR, water, waterpollution
Now that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has made it clear that mountaintop removal coal mining poses a severe threat to the environment -- most notably to water quality -- in Appalachia, the fate of this abominable practice appears to rest...continued→
October 16, 2009
Posted by Rob Perks in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- appalachia, coalmining, dirtycoal, EPA, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR, Obama, sprucemine, westvirginia
Go tell it on the mountain! Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is taking unprecedented action to bring to an end the saga of the infamous Spruce Mine, jamming a stake in the heart of what would have been the largest mountaintop removal project in the history...continued→
October 16, 2009
Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution
, Health and the Environment
, Solving Global Warming
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- coalash, coalspill, congress, dirtycoal, EPA, kingston, tennessee, tennesseevalleyauthority, TVA
Kudos to Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA) for bird-dogging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on the need to regulate pollution from coal-fired power plants. Yesterday, Rep. Markey sent a letter to EPA requesting information on the agency's findings related to the...continued→
October 15, 2009
Posted by Rob Perks in Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- appalachia, appalachiarestorationact, cleanwateract, cleanwaterprotectionact, coalindustry, dirtycoal, EPA, lisajackson, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR, westvirginia
At a congressional hearing today on the Clean Water Act, two House representatives from West Virginia (Nick Rahall and Shelley Moore Capito) shifted the questioning to mountaintop removal coal mining during EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson's testimony. Kind of like at a hockey game when...continued→
October 14, 2009
Posted by Rob Perks in Health and the Environment
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- coalash, coalspill, dirtycoal, EPA, lisajackson, tennessee, TVA, waterpollution
On the heels of last month's jaw-dropping New York Times expose of widespread water pollution in the U.S., the newspaper just published this follow-up story focusing on one of the culprits: pollution from coal-fired power plants. The NYT story highlights...continued→
