iLoveMountains.org http://www.ilovemountains.org END MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL COAL MINING IN APPALACHIA! Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:33:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 en Report: Coal industry costs state government http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/556 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/556#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:33:50 +0000 Editor http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/556 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/556/feed Mountaintop Removal Reaches the Senate http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/555 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/555#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:31:08 +0000 Editor http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/555 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/555/feed 72 mile record-setting run to end mountaintop removal! http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/554 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/554#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:10:04 +0000 Editor http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/554 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/554/feed A day to shine on Capitol Hill http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/550 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/550#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:25:49 +0000 Editor http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/550 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/550/feed US Senate Subcommittee Holds Hearing on the Impacts of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining on Water Quality in Appalachia http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/553 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/553#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:05:00 +0000 Editor http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/553 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/553/feed Supreme Court Ruling Has Implications for Mountaintop Removal http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/549 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/549#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:47:13 +0000 Editor http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/549 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/549/feed News for the Marsh Fork Elementary School Rally of June 23rd, 2009 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/552 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/552#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:45:26 +0000 Editor http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/552 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/552/feed Rally at the Marsh Fork Elementary School a Peaceful Success http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/551 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/551#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:57:09 +0000 Editor http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/551 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/551/feed A Growing Urgency to End Mountaintop Removal http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/547 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/547#comments Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:37:11 +0000 Editor http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/547 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/547/feed Activists scale 20-story tall machinery to call attention to nation’s worst form of coal mining http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/546 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/546#comments Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:44:18 +0000 Editor http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/546 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday June 18th, 2009 CONTACTS: Nell Greenberg, 510-847-9777 Celia Alario, 310-721-6517 Vivian Stockman, 304-927-3265 Hi-Res Photos, B-roll and Video will be available, www.mountaintaction.org. Activists Risk Arrest to Stop Mountaintop Removal - Scale 20-story tall machinery to call attention to nation’s worst form of coal mining; This is the first time a dragline has been scaled on a mountaintop removal site COAL RIVER VALLEY, W. VA.—Moments ago, four concerned citizens entered onto Massey Energy’s mountaintop removal mine site near Twilight WV and have begun to scale a150-foot dragline machine to drop a banner that says, ‘stop mountaintop removal mining.’ The climbers plan to stay on the enormous dragline, a massive piece of equipment that removes house-sized chunks of blasted rock and earth to expose coal, until police arrest them. Equipped with satellites phones and a web camera, the climbers will be available for interviews. This is the first time a dragline has been scaled on a mountaintop removal site, and marks the latest in a string of increasingly dramatic protests in West Virginia by residents and allies from across the country. This act of protest against mountaintop removal comes just days after the Obama Administration announced a plan to reform, but not abolish, the aggressive strip mining practice. “It’s way past time for civil disobedience to stop mountaintop removal and move quickly toward clean, renewable energy sources,” said Judy Bonds, Goldman Environmental Prize winner and co-director of Coal River Mountain Watch of West Virginia. “For over a century, Appalachian communities have been crushed, flooded, and poisoned as a result of the country’s dangerous and outdated reliance on coal. How could the country care so little about our American mountains, our culture and our lives?” Read the entire press release at www.mountaintaction.org]]> http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/546/feed Maybe a new director of the Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation, and Enforcement… http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/545 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/545#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:21:59 +0000 Editor http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/545 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/545/feed Green Jobs Show More Growth In Past Ten Years Than Traditional Jobs http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/544 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/544#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:29:45 +0000 Editor http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/544 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/544/feed BECKLEY REGISTER-HERALD: There has to be a better way in the Coal River Valley http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/543 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/543#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:36:01 +0000 Editor http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/543 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/543/feed LA Times Editorial: Is Obama caving in to coal? http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/542 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/542#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:26:03 +0000 Editor http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/542 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/542/feed Clean Coal Knee-Capping: Secretary Chu Makes $1 Billion Down Payment For More Dirty Coal http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/540 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/540#comments Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:44:26 +0000 Editor http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/540 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/540/feed Obama takes a small step… but we need a giant leap http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/539 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/539#comments Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:21:49 +0000 Editor http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/539 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/539/feed New White House “plan” for mountaintop removal… http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/537 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/537#comments Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:37:38 +0000 Editor http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/537 As always, those intrepid and resolute reporters Ken Ward Jr. and Jeff Biggers alerted us to the Obama Administration's new plan to "deal" with mountaintop removal coal mining. From Ken Ward Jr.'s blog:
Administration officials announced that they are taking a series of short-, medium- and long-range steps that they say will allow mountaintop removal to continue, but reduce the impacts to communities and the environment.
We think Jeff Biggers summed it up best in his article on the Huffington Post:
In an extraordinary move to disregard a 38-year rap sheet of crimes of pollution, harassment and forced removal of some of our nation's oldest and most historic communities, and the destruction of over 500 mountains and 1.2 million acres of deciduous hardwood forests in our nation's carbon sink of Appalachia, the Obama administration will announce today that it has decided to "regulate" mountaintop removal mining operations, not abolish them.
Continue reading and find more links and info....]]> http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/537/feed Senator Cardin announces hearings to review mountaintop removal mining practices! http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/538 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/538#comments Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:33:06 +0000 Editor http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/538 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/538/feed :( Obama fights ruling that blocks streamlined mine permits http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/536 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/536#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:48:34 +0000 Editor http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/536 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/536/feed “Education for the Valley” - Molly’s personal story http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/534 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/534#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:40:24 +0000 Editor http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/534 I was raised in the Tennessee Valley, along with many generations of my ancestors. I went to public school in the small town of Athens, TN, starting in kindergarten and ending with my senior year of high school. Once I graduated high school, I made my first grand move across the mountain to Asheville, NC. There, I completed my undergraduate career with a degree in Environmental Management and Policy. The brief biography is given to state this: of the 18 years that I was raised in the Tennessee Valley and educated in the Tennessee public school system, I knew very little of Tennessee cultural and environmental history. This was not due to a lack of interest. I continued my education to earn a degree in Environmental Policy; a decision and path I chose as a sophomore in high school. I adventured in the Tennessee hills and mountains with family and friends my whole life. I loved the area, but I didn't know why. I love the area, but I didn't know the history behind it. ........ keep reading]]> http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/534/feed