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PNC Bank: Helping to destroy mountains
PNC, a big regional bank (annual revenues: $16 billion) based in Pittsburgh, has become the bank that environmental activists love to hate because of its support for mountaintop removal mining. The bank was identified as the worst of the worst in Grading the Banks: A Mountaintop Removal Scorecard, a new ranking compiled by the... [read more]
They're Still Blowing Up Our Mountains
A guest post by Matthew Wasson, Ph.D., Director of Programs for Appalachian Voices A month ago, before the nation's attention was drawn to the tragedies at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia and the oil rig off the Louisiana coast, the EPA issued a blockbuster announcement about a strict new guidance for the permitting of... [read more]
The Beginning of the End for Mountaintop Removal?
An update on the mountaintop removal front courtesy of Appalachian Voices. And no, this is thankfully not an April Fools Day post... Appalachian Voices Celebrates Historic EPA Action The science is in, and the Obama Administration is listening. Today’s issuance of guidance by the Environmental Protection Agency is an absolutely... [read more]
ALERT: Blasting Begins on Coal River Mountain
An update from Coal River Mountain Watch and Appalachian Voices. You can take emergency action here.Mountaintop Removal Mining to Destroy 6,600 Acres-and Wind Potential Appalachian community advocates and environmentalists across the nation are expressing outrage that mountaintop removal coal mining operations have begun on Coal River... [read more]
EPA Puts Halt on 79 Pending Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Permits
As I reported last week, a moment of truth has arrived for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and President Barack Obama, who has promised “unprecedented steps” to rein in the devastating practice of mountaintop removal coal mining that is wrecking havoc across wide swaths of Appalachian mountains, valleys and communities.... [read more]
Operation Free: Defending America from the threat of climate change
Today’s guest blogger is Jon Gensler, a former U.S. Army captain, LEED accredited professional, and a dual MBA/MPA Candidate at MIT Sloan and the Harvard Kennedy School (a repost). September 11th is both a difficult and honorable day. Difficult because eight years ago we were woken to threat of terrorism on our shores as thousands of... [read more]
A Moment of Truth for Appalachia, Obama and EPA on Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
A moment of truth has arrived for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and President Barack Obama, who has promised “unprecedented steps” to rein in the devastating practice of mountaintop removal coal mining that is wrecking havoc across wide swaths of Appalachian mountains, valleys and communities.EPA is expected to announce... [read more]
EPA blocks permit for giant mountaintop removal mine
In a letter issued last week, the Environmental Protection Agency “moved toward revoking the largest mountaintop-removal permit in West Virginia history.” Citing “clear evidence” of likely damage, the EPA has asked the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to “suspend, revoke or modify” the permit it granted in 2007 to Arch Coal to dig a 2,278-... [read more]
BREAKING: EPA Puts Brakes on Hundreds of Mountaintop Removal Mining Permits
[Update and correction posted, 3/25/09:It seems that AP and about a dozen other news reports misinterpreted EPA's statements on mountaintop removal. EPA issued a grumpy and disheartening clarification statement late yesterday afternoon stating that they were only putting a hold on two permits filed by the US Army Corps of Engineers and... [read more]
Taking Mountain Top Removal Head-On, North Carolina Considers Ban
Landmark Legislation Would End State’s Use of Coal from Controversial and Destructive Mining PracticeThis just in: the North Carolina state legislature may take the destructive and despicable practice of mountaintop removal coal mining head-on by banning the use of coal obtained from mountaintop removal at any North Carolina coal plant... [read more]
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