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Protestors Again Hit PNC on Mountaintop-Removal Coal-Mining
Pittsburgh :: PA :: USA | 1 month ago
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And this morning, one such group voiced its displeasure with a two-pronged protest at the banking giant's annual shareholders meeting, held Downtown. At 10:30 a.m., some 40 protestors from groups including the Philadelphia-based Earth Quaker Action
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Hall of Fame
Charleston :: WV :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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Kennedy Jr. and Clara Bingham, for defending America's mountains...B ecause the blasting away of Appalachia's forested ridges by mountaintop-removal coal mining is an ongoing atrocity500 mountains and countingthat too few Americans yet know about,
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Reason for White House to Believe in Environmental Justice: Judy Bonds in the Coalfields
Seattle :: WA :: USA | over 2 years ago
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Yet, as we head into another winter of discontent in the coalfields, Judy Bonds, the indefatigable Goldman Prize-winning activist in the Coal River Valley of West Virginia, always gives me a reason to believe in the still small possibility of
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Green: Environmentalists Join Mountaintop Fray
Seattle :: WA :: USA | over 2 years ago
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Associated Press A mountaintop coal mining site at Kayford Mountain, W.Va. Environmental groups from Appalachia moved Thursday to join the federal government in fighting an industry lawsuit that would weaken oversight of mountaintop coal mining.
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One man's fight against mountaintop removal
Cleveland :: OH :: USA | over 2 years ago
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Few homeowners in Appalachia dare to stand up to coal companies. But Bo Webb did, and achieved the unthinkable: force a company to move blasting on a mountaintop removal strip mining site away from his hollow. Webb recently went to Washington, D.C.,
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Day 12,065 of Mountaintop Removal Disaster: Appalachia is Rising (Again)
Seattle :: WA :: USA | almost 3 years ago
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It's Day 12,065 of the mountaintop removal mining disaster. Dear readers in the 48 states that burn stripmined coal: American residents on the frontlines of the coal wars need your help and financial support NOW. August 3rdit was on this day in 1977,
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On Coal River
Charleston :: SC :: USA | almost 3 years ago
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Produced by Jillian Elizabeth, Adams Wood, Francine Cavanaugh. Executive producers, Dan Firshwasser, Eric Falkenstein, Deann Borshay Liem, J...Written by Cavanaugh, Jillian Elizabeth, Wood. With: Bo Webb, Ed Wiley, Judy Bonds, Joe Manchin, Maria
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Silverdocs film festival addresses pollution in Cambodia and West Virginia
Phnom Pénh :: Cambodia | almost 3 years ago
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Troubled water, near and far Silverdocs The annual Silverdocs documentary film festival runs through June 27 in Silver Spring. This year's lineup of 102 films from 54 countries includes a few films with science themes, such as "Born Sweet," a
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Coal Undermine
Charleston :: WV :: USA | 3 years ago
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Storied environmental activist Mike Roselle didn't come to West Virginia on a mission. He came to visit a friend -- Larry Gibson, who had refused to sell out to a coal company that proceeded to demolish the mountain by Gibson's home, south of
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Finally Good News in Coalfields: Welcome to the Ed Wiley Elementary School
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 3 years ago
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Blanketed by coal dust from a nearby coal silo, Marsh Fork Elementary also sat below a weakened 2.8 billion coal slurry impoundment, as mountaintop removal operations blasted nearby...Thanks to a generous $2.5 million grant from the Annenberg
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