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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 11, 2009
Posted by Rob Perks in Health and the Environment
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- appalachia, coal, coalmining, dirtycoal, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR
I have blogged countless times about mountaintop removal, the world's most destructive coal mining. My posts explore the various ecological, economic and cultural harm caused by this reckless strip mining. I've also highlighted specific people and places most affected by the...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 27, 2009
Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution
, Health and the Environment
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- appalachia, coalmining, dirtycoal, dirtyenergy, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR, USAToday
Kudos to the USA Today for coming out strong in its opposition to the worst of the worst coal mining: mountaintop removal. Today's excellent, hold-no-punches editorial declares "it's time to protect forests, streams from environmental degradation." It kicks off this way: Buried...continued→
October 27, 2009
Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution
, Health and the Environment
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- appalachia, coalmining, coalriver, coalrivermountain, dirtycoal, dirtyenergy, massey, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR, obama, solar, wind
Let me get this straight. President Obama, touting his administration's support for clean energy, visited Florida yesterday to tour the DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center, with its solar panels sprawling across 180 acres that can generate power for 3,000 homes. Yet on Coal River...continued→
October 27, 2009
Posted by Rob Perks in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- appalachia, coalmining, coalriver, coalrivermountain, dirtycoal, henryfair, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR
J. Henry Fair is a phenomenal photographer who generously lends his images to NRDC. He has been particularly helpful to me by providing for our use his starkly captivating photos of mountaintop removal coal mining. By hook or by crook, whether...continued→
October 26, 2009
Posted by Rob Perks in Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- appalachia, bowebb, coalmining, coalriver, coalrivermountain, dirtycoal, massey, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR, obama, westvirginia
Bo Webb is a proud and patriotic American who lives in Appalachia. A former Marine who fought for his country in Vietnam, Bo resides in the Coal River Valley of southwestern West Virginia. For years, he has fought for the region he loves as coal...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 19, 2009
Posted by Rob Perks in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- appalachia, coalmining, dirtycoal, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR, reclamation
"The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; with me you are but aliens and tenants. Throughout the land that you hold, you shall provide for the redemption of the land." (Leviticus 25:23-24) "In another...continued→
