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Oppose the Destructive Practice of Mountaintop Removal Mining
Target: U.S. Congress
Sponsored by: Sierra Club
Sponsored by: Sierra Club
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.
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.
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Sailor Moon lover, Texas
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Evan Francis, California
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Maren McConnell-Collins, California
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5:19 pm PDT, Aug 21,
Robyn McFadden, Texas
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6:34 pm PDT, Aug 19,
Leslie Wingate, Florida
it's ugly! it's destructive, it needs to stop now!
it's ugly! it's destructive, it needs to stop now!
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8:18 pm PDT, Aug 17,
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12:35 pm PDT, Aug 17,
Elisa Sachs, Virginia
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7:46 am PDT, Aug 16,
Hannah Raines, Tennessee
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11:30 pm PDT, Aug 14,
Cynthia Bage, California
It's just wrong and wasteful. That's pretty much it.
It's just wrong and wasteful. That's pretty much it.
# 2,244:
11:19 am PDT, Aug 14,
Kelly Kirby, New Mexico
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Katie Mann, Nevada
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Lisa Flint, Washington
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3:17 pm PDT, Aug 9,
Mary Chapman, Oregon
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Colleen Haas, Illinois
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9:58 pm PDT, Aug 6,
Denise Castleton, California
Generations of people have been living in these communities that are being completely destroyed. I've talked to people there that say many areas look like war zones. There are thriving communities with rich cultural heritages that are being broken apart and devastated by these unnecessary and brutally harmful techniques of mining. It is the right and moral thing to do to stop it now.
Generations of people have been living in these communities that are being completely destroyed. I've talked to people there that say many areas look like war zones. There are thriving communities with rich cultural heritages that are being broken apart and devastated by these unnecessary and brutally harmful techniques of mining. It is the right and moral thing to do to stop it now.
# 2,238:
9:26 pm PDT, Aug 6,
Stacy Samson, Oklahoma
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6:35 pm PDT, Aug 6,
Justin Meyer, California
This practice is horrifying to me.
This practice is horrifying to me.
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5:23 am PDT, Aug 4,
Danny Buskirk, California
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2:29 pm PDT, Aug 3,
Roberta Garrett, Colorado
What do you and these companies have against clean drinking water? When they form their bonds for reclimation why isn't protection of water and eroision control part of the process? Is it becasue it is so easy to clean up water and un-do the damage that these company's cause? You must condone the behaviour because it continues to happen. What ever happed to doing the right thing because it was the right thing to do? Maybe we will just have to focus on how history remembers you.
What do you and these companies have against clean drinking water? When they form their bonds for reclimation why isn't protection of water and eroision control part of the process? Is it becasue it is so easy to clean up water and un-do the damage that these company's cause? You must condone the behaviour because it continues to happen. What ever happed to doing the right thing because it was the right thing to do? Maybe we will just have to focus on how history remembers you.
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Steve Klein, Canada
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Ambre Nulph, Arkansas
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Patricia Tsui, California
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11:14 am PDT, Jul 31,
Sherry Breidenthal, California
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8:34 am PDT, Jul 31,
Zachary Maytan, Texas
This needs to stop.
This needs to stop.
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11:18 pm PDT, Jul 30,
Larry Hochman, New Jersey
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Joe Zakes, Texas
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Christopher Scott, New York
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Brad King, Florida
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Traci Bruce, Texas
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1:14 pm PDT, Jul 29,
Sean Noyes, Finland
As an American in Finland, I am strongly opposed to this type of environmental chaos, and ask you to put a end to it.
As an American in Finland, I am strongly opposed to this type of environmental chaos, and ask you to put a end to it.
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11:59 am PDT, Jul 29,
Heather Wolf, Washington
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Michael Miller, New York
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Kirsikka Ahtiala, Finland
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Emily Goodwin Durand, Pennsylvania
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Janet Solomon, Canada
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Suzanna Van der Voort, Netherlands
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Jenny O'Neil, United States Minor Outlying Islands
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Linda York, Washington
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7:51 am PDT, Jul 27,
A. Alnwick, New York
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7:12 am PDT, Jul 27,
Shanan Cummings, Florida
Mountaintop removal smacks of same destructive processes that have devastated countless natural areas in the name of greed.
Mountaintop removal smacks of same destructive processes that have devastated countless natural areas in the name of greed.
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1:09 am PDT, Jul 27,
Sherron Varela, New York
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Mark Kiernan, Italy
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Andrea Laurie Alnwick, New York
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Mary Beth Hostrup, Florida
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Maria del Carme Bregante, Argentina
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1:24 pm PDT, Jul 25,
Alison Chabonais, Florida
Hideous practice - unenlightened way of gonig about it. WAKE UP! Your life depends on this environment of ours.
Hideous practice - unenlightened way of gonig about it. WAKE UP! Your life depends on this environment of ours.
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12:58 pm PDT, Jul 25,
Deborah Olivo, Italy
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Morgan Griffith, California