Tag: coal
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The Biggest No-Brainer Bill of the Year—Moratorium on Mountaintop Removal
JEFF BIGGERS — “Every American has a right to live and work in a community free from environmental health risks. And it is our duty to ensure that this right is not infringed upon by industries that consider community health and environmental protection to be less important than their profit margins …
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New EPA Study Shows Largest Greenhouse Gas Emitters—Are They in Your Backyard?
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday released plant-by-plant data on 2011 emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping air pollutants. The data show once again that …
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Backroom Deal with Coal Company Forsakes Clean Water
APPALACHIAN VOICES — This settlement is a license to break the law and dump poisons into our drinking water again and again. The citizens of Kentucky …
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Students to Colleges: Take Our Money Out of Dirty Energy
YES! — Over the last six months, students in the U.S. have launched a new strategy to change the national conversation on climate change and shift political power away from the fossil fuel industry …
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Video: Arrested Development Co-Star Exposes the Coal Export Conspiracy
Greenpeace — Alia Shawkat, who co-stars as Maeby in the popular television show Arrested Development, stars in a new video released today by Greenpeace which explains how a plan to ship coal to Asia via the Pacific Northwest will destroy communities and could …