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Mountaintop Coal Removal

This Little (Coal-Fired) Light of Mine: Will President Heed 45 Million Prayers?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Catholics, Jews, Christians, President Barack Obama, Dirty Coal, Big Coal, Mountaintop Removal, National Council of Churches, Coal, Protestants, Eco-Justice, Mountaintop Coal Removal, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, O, Green News
Jeff Biggers

August 3rd should be a national day of atonement for our sins against the American mountains and mountaineers.

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Coal Companies Destroying, Not Restoring Mountains

Rob Perks | Posted 08.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Coalmining, Mountaintopremoval, Appalachia, Dirtycoal, Osm, Mtr, Mountaintopmining, Mountaintop Coal Removal, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Mountain Top Removal, Green News
Rob Perks

Lax enforcement by state and federal environmental officials means that the mountaintop removal reclamation rarely results in reshaping the mountain to its approximate original state.

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Letter From a Mountaineer to President Obama

Dave Cooper | Posted 03.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Appalachia, Coal Sludge, Environmental Policy, Mountaintop Coal Removal, Clean Coal, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Health, President Obama, Environment, Mountaintop Removal, Pollution, Coal, Green News
Dave Cooper

During your presidential campaign, you declared: "We have to find more environmentally sound ways of mining coal than simply blowing the tops off mountains." That time is now. Or never.

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