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Mountaintop Removal

Bank Of America To Stop Financing Mountaintop Removal

Grist | Joseph Romm | Posted 01.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Bank of America, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Green News, Climate Change, Mining, Environment, Banks, Mountaintop Removal, Coal, Global Warming, Investing, Green News

One of the world's largest financial institutions said this week it will phase out lending money to coal operators that use mountaintop removal mining...

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Victory for Appalachia! Bank of America Retreats from Mountaintop Removal

Michael Brune | Posted 01.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Bank of America, Wall St., Mountaintop Removal, Coal, Climate Change, Green News
Michael Brune

Bank of America has announced that they will be stop financing for companies that practice mountaintop removal coal mining, a highly destructive method of coal extraction.

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Unearthed: The News Without the Chaff

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 01.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Freedom's Watch, Hurricanes, Mountaintop Removal, 350.Org, Lobbyists, Coalition of the Willing, Kentucky, Auto Industry Bailout, Farm Subsidies, Global Warming, Cfcs, Media News
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle

Bush eases mining pollution regulations, greenhouse gases reach record levels, 2008 hurricane season sets records, Big Three spent $50 million lobbying Congress this year, and more.

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New Rules

Lucy Carrigan | Posted 01.04.2009 | Green

Read More: George Bush, Midnight Regulations, Mountaintop Removal, Bush Midnight Regulations, Green News
Lucy Carrigan

While we are all congratulating ourselves for the tremendous victory that is Barack Obama as our next president, the Bush administration is doing what it does best: screwing us.

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Dear Al Gore: Speak Against the Rape of Coal River Mountain

Jeff Biggers | Posted 12.26.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Epa, Al Gore, Appalachia, Dirty Coal, Wind Energy, Big Coal, West Virginia, Clean Energy, Mountaintop Removal, Coal Mining, Coal, Barack Obama, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Dismissing an overwhelming majority of West Virginian support for clean energy, Governor Manchin granted a mining permit revision for proposed mountaintop removal of Coal River Mt.

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Obama Appointments: Time for a Coal-Onoscopy

Jeff Biggers | Posted 12.22.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Dirty Coal, President-Elect Barack Obama, Environmental Protection Agency, Coal, Mountaintop Removal, Msha, Labor Department, Office of Surface Mining, Department of Interior, Big Coal, Obama Transition, Department of Energy, Cabinet Appointments, Barack Obama, Green News
Jeff Biggers

If President-elect Obama is truly serious about affecting climate change... then we must end the appointment of coal and other extraction industry executives.

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Does Obama Have What It Takes To Confront Our Climate Crisis?

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 12.20.2008 | Green

Read More: Mountaintop Removal, Clean Coal, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Governors Climate Conference, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Barack Obama Global Warming, Jim Hansen, Coal, Barack Obama, President Obama, Obama Administration, Obama Climate Change, Obama Climate Change Video, Barack Obama Environmental Policy, Barack Obama Environment, President Elect Obama, Green News
Sarah van Gelder

It is a relief that we are now discussing how, rather than whether, to address this global crisis. But will Obama's actions be up to the crisis at hand?

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Day of Action Against Coal

Michael Brune | Posted 12.15.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Wind Power, Mountaintop Removal, James Hansen, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Coal, Solar Power, Obama Coal, Clean Coal, Green News
Michael Brune

The citizens of Coal River Mountain, West Virginia are already working on building their own future with clean power.

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Bush Not Done Endangering Earth Just Yet

McClatchy Newspapers | Renee Schoof | Posted 12.08.2008 | Green

Read More: Grand Canyon, Mining, George W. Bush, Environment, Uranium, Grand Canyon Uranium, Endangered Species, Mountaintop Removal, Pollution, Coal, Green News

WASHINGTON -- In the next few weeks, the Bush administration is expected to relax environmental-protection rules on power plants near national parks, ...

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Nothing Conservative About Mountaintop Removal, Says Republican For Environment

The Daily Green | Jim DiPeso | Posted 11.27.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Clean Coal, Mountaintop Removal, Environment, Coal, Jim DiPeso, Republicans for Environmental Protection, Slideshow, Green News

Nothing could be more destructive of those conservative values than mountaintop removal coal mining. The high explosives and draglines that are gougin...

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Speak Now Against Bush's Great Coal Giveaway

Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.20.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, John McCain, Mountaintop Removal, Clean Coal, Big Coal, George W. Bush, Environment, Coal, Barack Obama, Green, Al Gore, Renewable Energy, Fossil Fuels, Climate Change, Global Warming, Green News
Jeff Biggers

After a year of record profits, coal operatives will receive nearly $2.8 billion in tax credits in the recent Wall Street bailout.

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The Banality of Clean Coal: Extraction Crimes

Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.08.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, John McCain, Mountaintop Removal, Carbon Emissions, Clean Coal, Alternative Energy, Big Coal, Energy Independence, King Coal, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Barack Obama, Coal, Green News
Jeff Biggers

In the 1970s, as the nation panicked, the coal industry announced a massive "clean coal" plan for coal-to-liquid gas conversion that would free us from foreign oil dependence. Sound familiar?

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Blockading Global Warming

Michael Brune | Posted 10.24.2008 | Green

Read More: Coal Plants, Energy, Mountaintop Removal, Clean Energy, Civil Disobedience, Coal, Climate Change, Green News
Michael Brune

A new coal plant in Virginia or a destructive coal mine in Appalachia are not isolated challenges; they are part of a national energy system run amok.

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Both Ways on Coal? Obama, McCain Embrace "Clean Coal," Not Mountaintop Removal

The Daily Green | Posted 10.23.2008 | Green

Read More: Obama Energy Policy, Energy, John McCain, Clean Coal, Mining, Mccain Energy Policy, Mountaintop Removal, Coal, Coal Mining, Barack Obama, Green News

In a story, fittingly, featured in the Charleston Gazette, in West Virginia's coal country, about people are puzzling over how John McCain and Barack ...

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"All of the Above" Is Really the Worst Old Energy Ideas

Frances Beinecke | Posted 10.12.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Tar Sands, Gas Prices, All of the Above, Coal-to-Liquids, Big Oil, Oil Shales, Oil Prices, Energy Crisis, Mountaintop Removal, Liquid Coal, Green News
Frances Beinecke

Our nation's oil addiction is hobbling economic growth and consumer spending power.

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King Fossil Loves Global Warming & Removes McCain's Mountaintop

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 06.17.2008 | Green

Read More: Solartopia, Efficiency, Cap and Trade, Boxer, Lieberman, Lieberman-Warner, Mccain, Greenwashing, Climage Security Act, Renewables, Filibuster, Mountaintop Removal, Warner, Nuclear Power, Global Warming, Mitch Mcconnel, Green News
Harvey Wasserman

King Fossil Fuel has ruled: there will be no Senate debate on global warming this year. And Joe Lieberman's greenwashed campaign gift for John McCain is a no-go.

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Obama's Audacity in Appalachia

Jeff Biggers | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Big Coal, Coal, Appalachia, Mountaintop Removal, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Race, Politics News
Jeff Biggers

The mountaintop removal issue transcends any narrow debate of jobs vs. trees by clearly showing that the environmental devastation has gone hand-in-hand with economic decline.

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