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Inspire America to End Mountaintop Removal
Target: EPA Administrator JacksonSponsored by: Rainforest Action Network
Mountaintop removal depends on financing from America's leading banks and approval from government regulators.
So far the Obama administration has not backed down from supporting mountaintop removal and without a significant change in the government's mountaintop removal policy, mining companies will continue to destroy mountain ranges and bury Appalachia's drinking water in toxic waste.
Today you can help by asking the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson, to visit Appalachia and see the destruction caused by mountaintop removal for herself.
When you see with your owns eyes the way this horrific practice is ravaging the people, water and land of Appalachia it is impossible not to feel compelled to stop it.
Please, send a letter to EPA Administrator Jackson.
So far the Obama administration has not backed down from supporting mountaintop removal and without a significant change in the government's mountaintop removal policy, mining companies will continue to destroy mountain ranges and bury Appalachia's drinking water in toxic waste.
Today you can help by asking the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson, to visit Appalachia and see the destruction caused by mountaintop removal for herself.
When you see with your owns eyes the way this horrific practice is ravaging the people, water and land of Appalachia it is impossible not to feel compelled to stop it.
Please, send a letter to EPA Administrator Jackson.
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We took action on “Inspire America to End Mountaintop Removal”!
# 16,593:
8:04 pm PST, Dec 6,
Ellyn Musser, Georgia
# 16,592:
7:57 pm PST, Dec 5,
Julia Johnson, Ohio
# 16,591:
5:44 am PST, Dec 5,
Carrie Zeigler, Ohio
# 16,590:
1:19 pm PST, Dec 2,
Name not displayed, Virginia
# 16,589:
10:25 am PST, Dec 1,
J Munns, California
# 16,588:
11:34 pm PST, Nov 30,
Lydia Bisaillon, Massachusetts
# 16,587:
10:54 pm PST, Nov 30,
Genete Bowen, California
# 16,586:
2:14 pm PST, Nov 30,
Warren C. Ellmann, Wisconsin
Mountain Top removal is an abomination to our country. It destroys the beauty of our land pollutes or destroys rivers and streams and creates hazardous waste retention ponds. All for what ... to give us more of the most environmentally devastating fuel we can use to generate electricity. STOP THE MADNESS NOW!!!
Mountain Top removal is an abomination to our country. It destroys the beauty of our land pollutes or destroys rivers and streams and creates hazardous waste retention ponds. All for what ... to give us more of the most environmentally devastating fuel we can use to generate electricity. STOP THE MADNESS NOW!!!
# 16,585:
9:46 am PST, Nov 30,
Tom Mugglestone, California
# 16,584:
5:57 pm PST, Nov 24,
Cristy Murray, Oregon
# 16,583:
11:26 pm PST, Nov 22,
Carol Patton, California
# 16,582:
9:44 am PST, Nov 22,
Constance Barnes, North Carolina
# 16,581:
12:05 am PST, Nov 22,
Kyle Henrichs, Montana
# 16,580:
4:25 pm PST, Nov 21,
Nicole Tozier, Arizona
# 16,579:
8:18 am PST, Nov 21,
Jenni Kovich, West Virginia
# 16,578:
4:31 am PST, Nov 21,
Mel Sinclair, Texas
# 16,577:
11:25 am PST, Nov 20,
Stana Weisburd, New York
# 16,576:
1:26 pm PST, Nov 18,
Hope Brogunier, Maine
# 16,575:
3:32 pm PST, Nov 16,
Theresia Cronan, California
# 16,574:
12:16 pm PST, Nov 16,
Troy Dodge, Kansas
# 16,573:
7:12 am PST, Nov 16,
Bridget Devine, New Jersey
# 16,572:
2:01 am PST, Nov 16,
Margaret Auerbach, West Virginia
Stop government subsidies of polluting energy industries and subsidies renewable, green energy sources instead.
Stop government subsidies of polluting energy industries and subsidies renewable, green energy sources instead.
# 16,571:
10:33 pm PST, Nov 15,
Taylor Brown, Massachusetts
# 16,570:
2:11 pm PST, Nov 15,
Name not displayed, Virginia
STOP destroying mountains and lives for the sake of coal energy. Enough is enough!
STOP destroying mountains and lives for the sake of coal energy. Enough is enough!
# 16,569:
7:06 am PST, Nov 15,
Joseph Braus, California
# 16,568:
11:18 am PST, Nov 14,
Ronald Withrow, Florida
The newest mountaintop project I've heard of is Coal River Mountain. Masset Energy has done their worst to push this travesty. It happens to be where I used to love going fishing, which will probably cease to exist anymore. This type of mining has already been proven to be devastating to the environment for miles around. IMHO, it's like drilling for oil in the middle of a National Park! Please deny this once illegal method of mining an increasingly irrelevant power source. Being from W.Va. I can tell you that there is no such thing as clean coal, especially if the coal barons keep their lobbyists busy knocking down The Clean Water Act and lowering clean air standards.
The newest mountaintop project I've heard of is Coal River Mountain. Masset Energy has done their worst to push this travesty. It happens to be where I used to love going fishing, which will probably cease to exist anymore. This type of mining has already been proven to be devastating to the environment for miles around. IMHO, it's like drilling for oil in the middle of a National Park! Please deny this once illegal method of mining an increasingly irrelevant power source. Being from W.Va. I can tell you that there is no such thing as clean coal, especially if the coal barons keep their lobbyists busy knocking down The Clean Water Act and lowering clean air standards.
# 16,567:
9:21 am PST, Nov 14,
Karen Walker, California
Not only is it time to end this...it should never have been started to begin with. We continue to gouge big holes in Mother Earth and are surprised when we have problems later.
Not only is it time to end this...it should never have been started to begin with. We continue to gouge big holes in Mother Earth and are surprised when we have problems later.
# 16,566:
9:19 am PST, Nov 14,
Nancy Lopez, Florida
# 16,565:
9:33 pm PST, Nov 13,
Diana Lee, South Africa
# 16,564:
6:29 pm PST, Nov 13,
Kip Mapes, Michigan
Just shared this with a dozen of my friends. We Are Watching...Live up to your words Now! Stop the rape against my Mother.
Just shared this with a dozen of my friends. We Are Watching...Live up to your words Now! Stop the rape against my Mother.
# 16,563:
2:10 pm PST, Nov 13,
Judy Johnston, Illinois
# 16,562:
5:08 pm PST, Nov 12,
Livia Hirsch, Vermont
# 16,561:
4:00 pm PST, Nov 12,
Paul Shabazian, California
# 16,560:
1:38 pm PST, Nov 12,
Kimberly Jordan, California
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5:20 pm PST, Nov 10,
Name not displayed, Oklahoma
Once again, its all about the money, and damn the environment.
Once again, its all about the money, and damn the environment.
# 16,558:
10:01 am PST, Nov 10,
Valeria Grossi, Italy
# 16,557:
8:58 pm PST, Nov 9,
Jeff Barnes, Colorado
# 16,556:
8:50 pm PST, Nov 9,
Devon Watson, Colorado
# 16,555:
7:20 pm PST, Nov 9,
Nilay Sheth, Maryland
# 16,554:
3:55 pm PST, Nov 9,
Name not displayed, West Virginia
Please view this devastation with your own eyes. You will be looking at the destruction of some of the oldest mountains on earth. There are other ways to get the coal, without destroying the overlying mountains. Consider that this destruction is forever, when you see it.
Please view this devastation with your own eyes. You will be looking at the destruction of some of the oldest mountains on earth. There are other ways to get the coal, without destroying the overlying mountains. Consider that this destruction is forever, when you see it.
# 16,553:
2:52 pm PST, Nov 9,
Jamie Levato, New York
We must end mountaintop removal coal mining.
We must end mountaintop removal coal mining.
# 16,552:
12:26 am PST, Nov 9,
Ashley Schultz, California
Let's put greed aside and consider the lives of the people suffering and the habitat that is being irreversibly altered and destroyed. There are other ways to make money beside destroying lives and environment.
Let's put greed aside and consider the lives of the people suffering and the habitat that is being irreversibly altered and destroyed. There are other ways to make money beside destroying lives and environment.
# 16,551:
9:46 pm PST, Nov 8,
K Chauve, Iowa
If you truly care to serve the people, then erecting wind farms on the mountain tops, would provide clean energy for the area create jobs, keep the majesty of the land, and contribute to the ecology and the economy of the area. Coal could still be mined underground and the area could profit from both.
If you truly care to serve the people, then erecting wind farms on the mountain tops, would provide clean energy for the area create jobs, keep the majesty of the land, and contribute to the ecology and the economy of the area. Coal could still be mined underground and the area could profit from both.
