Tag: Mountaintop Removal
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Five Arrested at Mountaintop Removal Protest
“Alpha is only profitable because they’re allowed to gamble with our lives—and we’re the ones who pay the cost of their negligence and toxic pollution …
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Summer Heat: Mass Action to Stop the Climate Crisis
We believe that mass action can breathe life into even the most hardened political fights, and so these actions will all aim to bring thousands of people to stand together—perhaps sometimes on the wrong side of the law.
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Appalachians Rally in DC to Demand Clean Water and an End to Mountaintop Removal
APPALACHIA RISING — Citizens from across the country traveled to the nation’s capitol today to urge an end to mountaintop removal coal mining, a radical form of strip mining in Appalachia that has destroyed more than 500 mountains and buried or poisoned more than 2,000 miles of streams in Central Appalachia …
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Dirty Banks Exposed for $20 Billion Investment in Dying Coal Industry
RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK / SIERRA CLUB / BANKTRACK — “The acute environmental and financial risks of coal have already begun to materialize. For the health of our communities and the sake of our future energy supply, banks must …
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Immediate Moratorium Needed on Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining to Protect Human Health
CENTER FOR HEALTH, ENVIRONMENT & JUSTICE — “The evidence shows that mountaintop removal threatens public health and the environment. It’s time to act to protect rural communities …