While many of us are spending the holidays with our friends and families, activists from United Mountain Defense and Mountain Justice are on the ground in eastern Tennessee providing relief to the coal ash disaster.
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Make Climate Justice History
Join a Mass Non-Violent Direct Action against the Capital Coal Plant in D.C. Mar. 2nd
In late February 2009, the Energy Action Coalition will host Powershift 2009 in Washington DC, creating the largest youth mobilization on climate change in history. Conference organizers are hoping for 15,000 attendees (up from 6,000 in 2007) from across the country to attend the conference, focusing generally on making climate change, clean energy, and green jobs a priority for the new administration.
Bank of America to Stop Financing Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining!
This is pretty freaking BIG!!
“Bank of America is particularly concerned about surface mining conducted through mountain top removal in locations such as central Appalachia. We therefore will phase out financing of companies whose predominant method of extracting coal is through mountain top removal. While we acknowledge that surface mining is economically efficient and creates jobs, it can be conducted in a way that minimizes environmental impacts in certain geographies.”
Coal River Mountain in Peril: Could be Blasted in Days
Destruction of Mountain also Imperils Coal River Wind Project
The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has approved Massey Energy’s revision of one of the mountaintop removal coal mining permits for Coal River Mountain.
That means Massey may begin blasting at any time.
Read about it here on Grist.
Coal CEO calls environmentalists crazy
States that Big Coal "needs to start standing up for itself"
This is too much. Don Blankenship and Massey Energy are the poster
children for mountaintop removal. They not only wreck the planet by
selling the coal they mine to be burned, but wreck Appalachian
communities and landscape in extracting it. It’s a pretty horrible
process and this guy labels us as the crazy ones?
My favorite line in this article is “The greeniacs are taking over the world.”
Gore Calls for Civil Disobedience to Halt Coal Plants and Climate Change
Denounces "Clean Coal" as "Nonexistent"
Last year in two different print publications, The New York Times and Rolling Stone, former Vice-President and Nobel Prize Winner Al Gore called for young people to commit civil disobedience to halt new coal fired power plants and climate change.
Eleven Arrested at Coal Protest in Wise County Va.
Dominion coal construction site targeted, CEO embarrased by protest photos during speech
Yesterday a group of more than twenty-five activists from
around the country entered and blockaded the construction site of Dominion
Virginia Power's new coal-fired power plant in Wise County, VA
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Raising Kaine- VP Candidate Under Fire Over Coal
Governor's "Clean Coal" Capitulation Criticized
Pressure on Virginia Governor Tim "Coal is Clean" Kaine has escalated in recent days as he stepped out to push state level leadership on global warming. Southern states have lagged far behind Northeastern and Western state alliances to enact regional greenhouse gas reduction targets and emissions trading schemes. Kaine called for a Southern states alliance yesterday at the Southern Governors' Association meeting.
Dirty Coal Lobby Buys D.C.
The public isn’t buying the coal lobby’s high-priced ad campaign.
They know that coal is dirty and has remained so for the last century. But it seems to be falling on deaf ears amongst our politicians in Washington, D.C.
Coal Industry Front Group Holds Arkansas Clean Coal Technology Conference
Mark your calendars! On Thursday, July 17, 2008, the coal industry front group "American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity" (ACCCE) is co-sponsoring a conference in Hope, Arkansas.
From the press release:
