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A Growing Climate Change Movement Emerges
Bangkok :: Thailand | 2 days ago
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Hundreds of climate activists swarmed down a hill toward Britain’s largest coal-burning power plant Oct. 17 with the intention of shutting it down. Within minutes, dozens had broken through the perimeter fence, erected specifically for this protest, and...
Tags: climate change, direct actions, climate movement, climate activists, Seattle, United States, mountaintop removal, Copenhagen, Australia, nonviolent direct, Thailand, Bangkok, Radical environmentalism, Energy policy, 350, Bill McKibben, Individual and political action on climate change, Action on climate change, Global warming, Environment
Coal companies tell shareholders outlook is good
Charleston :: WV :: USA | 18 days ago
Credibility The Charleston Gazette reports that most major Appalachian coal producers are telling their shareholders that increased federal environmental reviews are not likely to disrupt production or cause layoffs anytime soon...Environmental Protection Agency...
Tags: Coal River Mountain, river mountains, mountaintop removal
Mountaintop removal mining protests going national
Morgantown :: WV :: USA | 24 days ago
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Action On Mountaintop Removal
Here's a couple of quick updates and actions on the continuing fight to stop the destruction and havoc wreaked by mountaintop removal mining.Nationwide Permit 21 (NWP-21) has been used for years as a way for coal companies to streamline the MTR permitting...
Tags: green, mountaintop removal, environment, activism
Crowds expected for hearing on mountaintop removal
Pikeville :: KY :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility A public hearing on mountaintop removal coal mining is drawing intense interest and will be held in an exposition center that seats 5,000 people. Organizers aren't sure how how many people will show up for the hearing Tuesday in the East Kentucky Expo...
Tags: mountaintop removal, mountaintop mining, Eastern Kentucky, West Virginia
Hearing on mountaintop removal mining set for Pittsburgh
Charleston :: SC :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Six public hearings across the Appalachian coalfields next week, including one in Pittsburgh, figure to be the latest battleground in the fight over the future of a practice known as mountaintop removal mining. The environmental community and pro-coal...
Mountaintop Mining Impact Reined In
Atlanta :: GA :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility The Obama administration on Wednesday moved to curtail the practice of blasting hilltops to extract coal, angering mining companies who said the move threatens thousands of jobs. The Environmental Protection Agency announced it had held up 79 permit applications...
Tags: mountaintop removal
Mining Company Hits House with Giant Boulder
Frankfurt, KY - Frasure Mining Company, while engaging in a coal-extraction process known as mountaintop-removal mining last week, dislodged a giant boulder from a ridge top in Floyd county, which rolled right into the bedroom of a house below. ...
Tags: mountaintop removal, coal, Lisa Jackson, mining, Frasure Mining, boulder, damages
Tree-sitting protest of mountaintop removal ends in W.Va. after 6 days; activists arrested
Morgantown :: WV :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility A tree-sitting protest designed to halt blasting at a Massey Energy mountaintop removal mine in southern West Virginia ended Monday when the activists descended from an 80-foot high platform and were arrested. State Police confirmed that Laura Steepleton...
Non-Violent Activism Highlights Mountaintop Removal Mining's Destruction
Pettry Bottom, West Virginia - Laura Steepleton, 24 and Nick Stocks, 25 began the fourth day of tree-sitting in Coal River Valley, West Virginia. The multiday act of civil disobedience was designed by environmental advocacy groups Climate...
Tags: Obama, Lisa Jackson, EPA, mountaintop removal, West Virginia, Coal River Valley, civil disobedience, coal
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