Mountaintop removal is exactly what it sounds like: Mining companies clearcut native forests and blow off mountaintops with explosives to uncover thin seams of coal, then dump millions of tons of the waste rock into the valleys below, permanently burying streams.
This devastating practice, the nation's most destructive form of coal mining, poisons drinking water, lays waste to wildlife habitat, increases risk of flooding and wipes out entire communities.
Please urge your member of Congress to co-sponsor the Clean Water Protection Act (H.R. 2169), which would protect Appalachia's streams by restoring the prohibition on using waste to fill streams and wetlands.
We took action on “Oppose the Destructive Practice of Mountaintop Removal Mining”!
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6:36 pm PDT, Jun 26,Susan Choi, Canada
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6:20 pm PDT, Jun 26,P Pursel, California
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5:55 pm PDT, Jun 26,J Hawks, Arizona
The point of a new president was to have a new way of thinking about the environment! If it's necessary for THE PEOPLE to also look for new representatives with the same goal as the people they represent - that can be taken care of as well. The destruction of our environment has to stop NOW - we have too many alternatives sources of energy to act as if coal and oil are the only options any more.
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4:17 pm PDT, Jun 26,Patricia Duncan, New York
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3:29 pm PDT, Jun 26,Angela Fazzari, Arizona
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1:00 pm PDT, Jun 26,Jan Brady, Texas
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11:51 am PDT, Jun 26,Tan Kiat, Singapore
Please spare a thought for our fellow brothers and sisters,stop destroying their habitat.Have some respect for lives and envoirment.
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11:15 am PDT, Jun 26,Phyllis Krystal, Washington
MTR has to be stopped, before all the Mountains are gone and the coal companies do so much damage to the areas that it never recovers. We have to have more Respect for our Planet. Not everything should be done and allowed in the name of profits.
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10:59 am PDT, Jun 26,H.Marie Ostrander, North Carolina
Please excuse me for my negativity, however, given the evidence and the fact that this industry is continuing to be allowed to destroy the Appalatian Mountains suggests that a lot of our government officials are on the take from big coal. How disappointing but also not surprising. I sure hope you are not one of these as I will definitely vote against anyone who is in cahoots with the coal companies and will spread the word.
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10:14 am PDT, Jun 26,Victoria Hart, Ohio
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9:39 am PDT, Jun 26,Achaessa James de Garibay, California
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8:38 am PDT, Jun 26,Robyn Cuthbert-Adair, Canada
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8:26 am PDT, Jun 26,Mika Collins, Canada
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8:22 am PDT, Jun 26,Lesia Haugan, Canada
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8:06 am PDT, Jun 26,Eva Mahgrefteh, South Carolina
Horrific practice that is bad for the environment and bad for the inhabitants of that region.
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7:54 am PDT, Jun 26,Marina Brennan, Texas
Destroying animal and human lives for what? For a few more bucks? Hello, clean energy is on it's way. Mining industry knows that coal is still in demand. Why? Because we want to have electricity and warm and cool our homes. Don't support them- buy your electricity from clean energy sources, check your home for energy leaks and don't crank that AC all the way up. In other words, don't support the Mountaintop removal indirectly.
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7:14 am PDT, Jun 26,Ruth Howard, South Africa
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6:35 am PDT, Jun 26,Ronell Chesterton, South Africa
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6:15 am PDT, Jun 26,Sarah Divine, Australia
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5:54 am PDT, Jun 26,Luis Cardona, New Jersey
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5:07 am PDT, Jun 26,Savannah Scarborough, North Carolina
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4:47 am PDT, Jun 26,Jenny Quinton, China
I appalled to hear about this mindless method of coal extraction. I am quite simply shocked that this sort of practice could be happening in America
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4:43 am PDT, Jun 26,Charlotte Barrow, United Kingdom
For the sake of our much-already-destroyed environment please eliminate your proposals to do this to the mountains. I urge you to take into account our concerns and act on them as soon as possible! Please do not go ahead with doing yet more mining on the mountains.
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4:26 am PDT, Jun 26,Ann Kendall, Massachusetts
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4:03 am PDT, Jun 26,Name not displayed, Virginia
Mountain Top Removal of Coal is like being in a war zone. The peaceful residents are startled and rattled on a daily basis. The foundations of their homes are cracked. There is toxic black dust in their homes, clothes, air, food and drinking water. Dangerous trucks thunder past their homes day and night. There is a constant danger of floods and toxic waste from dams breaking. People live in the mountains because they love peace a quite. Not a war zone. No one should have to live like this. They live well below the poverty level because there are no jobs to be had. They can't even rely on tourism because their beautiful landscapes and streams are ruined.
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3:59 am PDT, Jun 26,Name not displayed, South Carolina
I have seen what happens after the mining. Have you?
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3:51 am PDT, Jun 26,Alan Somers, Florida
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3:29 am PDT, Jun 26,DELNESTE CATHERINE, Belgium
Be respectful for all living things...if you destroy nature, you destroy yourself...
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12:40 am PDT, Jun 25,Kevin Miller, California
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9:27 pm PDT, Jun 24,Kekuhoumana Ka'ahea, California
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7:52 pm PDT, Jun 24,Alexander Haulman, California
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4:36 pm PDT, Jun 23,Carolyn Tonahill, Louisiana
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1:15 pm PDT, Jun 23,Name not displayed, Illinois
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2:26 pm PDT, Jun 22,Andy High, Colorado
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2:50 am PDT, Jun 20,Denisszia Gerocz, Romania
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7:38 am PDT, Jun 17,Stormoak Lonewind, Massachusetts
